The Folly of HRT

on the 2nd June 2008 Medical Journal of Australia reported that the reduction in breast cancer among women 50 years mainly due to a reduction in the use of HRT, or hormone replacement therapy. This new Australian study found that there were 600 fewer cases of breast cancer a year to fewer women using HRT. Use of HRT was reduced by 40%, and after the results of Women's Health Initiative trial in 2002 showed that HRT due to the increase in breast cancer, heart attacks, blood clots and stroke.

So how did we get to this point, where the reduction in drug use for menopausal symptoms has resulted in fewer cases of breast cancer as shown in this new research? To answer this we need to look at the history of HRT, and before that was spreading propaganda that led to women and their physicians regarding menopause as a disease state.

It was not until 1821 that the French physician de Gardanne invented the term menopause to describe this phase transition in the lives of women, which soon became regarded as a disease for which there must be a remedy. Until the 1960s estrogen replacement therapy, taking about 12 percent of all women in postmenopauzi.Unos HRT after years of promoting the menopause as a disease of hormone deficiency that must be treated or women will end up as shriveled and osteoporotic creatures are all mercilessly. Never mind the fact that the modern women's mothers and grandmothers who barely noticed the now maligned life transition instead, celebrating this stage of life as one in which they are freed from the worry of pregnancy and childbirth.

Such freedom, that were a challenge like Dr. Robert Wilson with his book "Feminine Forever," where he promoted the revolutionary idea that menopause is estrogen deficiency bolesti.Propagande educate women and their doctors about menopausal symptoms and risk of loss of estrogen ardently in pursuit of drug companyAyerst, makers of Premarin, which has become the number one issue of drugs in America.

It soon became apparent that the problems associated with the administration of estrogen and in 1972 the news that endometrial cancer increases in women taking estrogen for menopausal symptoms, seek a moratorium on the drug. Not daunted these serious side effects of their "miracle drug", the pharmaceutical company has come up with new studies show that the risk of endometrial cancer can be reduced by adding progesterone to ERT and 1990s, it was also argued that estrogen has some benefit in reducing Alzheimer's disease, age-related eye disease, colon cancer, tooth loss, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. such allegations only proves the utter desperation of pharmaceutical companies as they continue to peddle the false rhetoric in post menopausal women.

Despite previous claims, research in 1997 indicated an increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women with estrogen use, and again in 1998 the heart of Estrogen / progestin Replacement Study (her) found no heart benefit for women who are HRT and had cardiovascular disease. Finally in 2002 that estrogen / progestin part of the WHI study was initially planned to end in 2005 was halted because of the increased incidence of invasive breast cancer and increased risk of venous thromboembolism and adverse cardiovascular događaje.Reakcija to this news was outrage and shock from women the number 6000000 in the United States. After this alarming announcement to halt the study because of the increased risk to the health of women, millions of those who stopped HRT medication and many are looking to learn about other alternatives to alleviate their symptoms of menopause.

But, if our grandmothers had no such difficulty in facing this stage of life, why do modern žene.Odgovor can be as simple as a consequence of many environmental causes, such as pollution, different types and quality of food and other lifestyle factors. To simply swallow a pill for the disease was established and promoted the belief that women are still women ever been shown to be hazardous to the health of women, but as usual, to make huge profits for pharmaceutical companies and others.

The good news is that the Australian federal government is under pressure to consider a ban on the drugs with the Cancer Council NSW president Dr Andrew calligrapher calls for re-evaluation of the use of HRT to treat menopausal symptoms when taken for more than five years increases the risk by 60 percent.

We need to continue pressure on the Australian federal government to ban the use of HRT and its use was found to be a tragic mistake.