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120 of 120 people found the following review helpful:
what every woman should know, March 27, 2001
By A Customer
As a practicing pharmacist, it upsets me that such basic knowledge of hormones was not taught in school. Doctors aren't even taught some of the basic information Dr. Wright discusses in this book. I wish all women would read this book and I wish all doctors would open their minds to the information presented in it. For all the thousands of women I know to be using natural hormone replacement therapy, I don't know a single "unhappy customer".
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145 of 148 people found the following review helpful:
A Must-Read for All Women Over 40, January 13, 2001
Like many women, I thought the only way to deal with perimenopause and menopause was with Premarin [made with pregnant horse estrogen, Yuck] and other hormones pushed by large pharmecuetical companies. This book was a real eye opener for me. It explains how the estrogens naturally found in a woman's body can't be patented, because they are just natural bodily hormones. Therefore, the drug giants who court all the doctors have no financial incentive to tout naturally occurring hormones. Instead, they push the horse estrogens, and other unnatural products, which cause side effects.This book explains how a woman with a good doctor can get a pharmacy to mix a custom-blended natural hormone replacement with few, if any, side effects, because it's what's in your body already. I took this book to my doctor who said of course he'd be happy to prescribe natural hormones as suggested in the book. Had I not brought it up, I, too would have been prescribed that horrible Premarin or Prempro, made from the urine of pregnant [and abused] mares. I've spoken with other women over 45-50 who take the horse estrogen, Premarin [the name comes from PREgnant MARe's urINe], and they were shocked that there was an alternative their doctors had never bothered mentioning. Anyone interested in natural health should buy this must-read, and then discuss with your doctor.
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88 of 88 people found the following review helpful:
Totally restored my life and health, December 5, 1998
By A Customer
I had a hysterectomy 5 years ago and have been very sick ever since but was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression and Panic Disorder. It started within a week of the surgery. (symptoms were mild at first but progressively got worse until I was bedridden. I have been declared disabled by a Social Security Disability judge. I have tried various conventional Estrogen Replacement Therapies but without much help . (pills, creams, shots, patches have caused all sorts of reactions - even borderline delirium and total incapacitation. A friend told me about this book and I immediately found an innovative GYN who worked with a compounding pharmacist who cautiously (with slow increases) prescribed this Natural Hormone Therapy for me via a cream since I don't absorb by mouth. Within one month, I began to notice a difference. I am now feeling wonderful for the first time in years - pre-hysterectomy normal. I am so thrilled that I am telling my story to all that will listen. I have friends that have seen such a dramatic change in me that they are buying the book and changing doctors to get off of the unnatural estrogen derived from horse urine they are on. This book is a must reading for all women and doctors who treat them. This information must get out -- had I known, perhaps my 5 year nightmare would have been avoided.
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80 of 80 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent info about Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone, February 24, 2000
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.
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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
GREAT things come in small packages!, August 15, 2000
Don't let the size of this wonderful book, fool you. It's filled with life changing help for the maturing woman. The Whys & Hows of Natural "vs" Patented Hormone Replacement Drugs.... plenty of information on the "forgotten" hormone needs also. This book lets us KNOW the effect of Hormones on Cancer, Senility, Heart disease, Osteoporsis. Explains in clear detail, with resources. Advice on herbs & foods that make this transistion easier. EXCELLENT!
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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
Estrogen Positive Breast Cancer...Alternative HRT, November 2, 1999
I am 50 years old. Due to high dose steriods used during chemotherapy, I suffered significant bone loss. Also, I am experiencing High BP and High Cholesteral as well as other menopausal symptoms. Hormone Therapy is essential to maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system and bone density. Because my breast cancer was estrogen positive..I wanted a safer treatment than Premarin...This book explains the big picture and gives hope for a safe alternative to conventional hormone therapy for living longer and having a higher quality of that extended life. Natural Hormones
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
NOW HEAR THIS all menopausal women: good food for thought!, September 25, 2002
By A Customer
As both a female and one over 45 who is in the menopausal phase of her life, this book is incredibly helpful because it gives one an alternate view, very different from what AMA and FDA guidelines stipulate. We are in control of our bodies and can ultimately make our own decisions, but only with enough subjective information to go by. Many physicians may not be open to natural hormone replacement, but there are many who are. Women just need to read this book, among others, to become better educated about their choices regarding controlled substances being ingested into the body.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
The small cost of and limited time required to read this book is well worth it!, September 19, 2006
Read this book. It will get you long on knowledge you really should know in short order. A HUGE misunderstanding has been created (on purpose, by the major pharmaceutical companies, or through the unfortunate ignorance of medical professionals) about synthetic, altered, equine, patented, profitable hormone replacement therapy (HRT) vs. Bio-Identical HRT. Everybody should know the difference and how it can affect their health.
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18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent book, May 13, 1999
By A Customer
Natural Hormone replacement is a MUST read for any woman who is looking for natural alternatvies. I Found this book interesting and VERY Helpful.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Brief,Surprisingly Thorough Explanation of Evidence Supporting Natural Hormone Replacement, September 21, 2006
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. Your HMO prefers dangerous horse estrogens, because they are less expensive to produce.
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.
Florida Detox has been able to obtain all of these improvements, often in days, using bio-identical hormone replacement. These bio-identical hormones are sometimes almost the only medications, which highly allergic patients do not have adverse reactions to.
Steven Sponaugle
Research Director, Florida Detox
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