Natural Hormone Replacement for Women over 45

Uzi Reiss and Elizabeth Vliet provide more thorough discussions of this topic, but Jonathan Wright has written magazine articles for years and offers a concise review of the evidence for bio-identical hormone replacement. Wright focuses on bio-identical hormone replacement, resulting in a briefer discussion, since he spends less time discussing studies of horse estrogens and artificial progestins.Misleading, sensationalized media coverage of large, poorly designed, ethically questionable estrogen replacement studies, including the Womens Health Initiative and Nurses Health Study continues to discourage women from obtaining safe effective natural hormone replacement. These large studies of thousands of women used the same dose of Premarin horse estrogens for study subjects, without regard to symptoms. Doseage was not adjusted for individual study patients. I doubt anyone would volunteer for a thyroid hormone replacement study, if they were informed individual hormone levels would not be measured and everyone would receive the same hormone dose, irregardless of whether they exhibited hypothyroidism symptoms. What is surprising about the large overpublicized Premarin/Progestin studies is that women were willing to submit themselves to these dangerous, poorly designed studies and that the media has succeeded so thoroughly, in misleading the public.Wright provides excellent information on the estrone/estradiol and estriol ratio correlation with cancer. He also explains studies indicating bio-identical progesterone decreases cancer.Wright explains why animal lovers will want horse estrogen (Premarin) removed from the market, when they learn how inhumanely horses are treated to obtain it. Many health insurers prefer dangerous horse estrogens, because they are less expensive to produce and purchase.Physicians treat individual patients, not study groups. When safe bioidentical hormone replacement dose is adjusted to the individual patient, using repeated testing and gradual dose increases, dramatic improvements in depression,insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia and migraine often occur.These bio-identical hormones are sometimes almost the only medications, which highly allergic patients do not have adverse reactions to.Steven Sponaugle

Excellent reading if you are dealing with menopause or are interested in dealing with hormonal issues in women. Big Pharma drugs are not your best option due to what they do in your body. Here you will understand WHY. This book is a very good reference to help you understand this and how natural, bio-identical hormones can be used, obtained and give you much safer and better results for hormonal issues.

This is a light, quick read, but has a great deal of information you'll have trouble learning elsewhere. Did you know that there are three kinds of Estrogen? That's just for starters. I suffered from depression and fatigue after a hysterectomy, and months of research took me to this book, a new doctor, a new prescription for "natural" hormones, and I'm a new woman, or really I got my old self back, thank God and the authors. Plus, because of this book, I am practically an expert, and I've taken control of my own health care.

I got a tremendous amount of information out of this book. It is clear and concise, and sold me on natural HRT which I have now been using for 10 years. I give it as a gift often. I am not one who has the patience to read a weighty medical book, this was perfect for me, and made sense.

Menopause is a big deal for women which is note taken seriously enough and should really be studied more to help more women and especially baby boomers

I found this book repeating the same information over and over again, and I didn't get what I needed to know...no straight information about the hormone replacement. It made me believe that it borrowed some high level info from other books. I don't think is worth the money. There are other books more interesting and in more depth about the hormone replacement. I end up not getting what I wanted from this book.

This is one of the best books I have found in explaining Natural Harmones Replacement. It has helped me to understand the importants of balancing your hormones to prevent Breast Cancer.My Doctor also wanted me to read Dr. Jonathan Wright's book to help me understand more about harmaones and making my decision in what I wanted to do. I highly recommend this book.

good information but not all in all, I have seen better information on the internet, It has some good information