Sexual Chemistry: Understanding Our Hormones, the Pill and Hrt [Hardcover]

Ellen Grant (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749324856
• ISBN-13: 978-0749324858
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,621,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, gives lifts lid on synthetic hormones, April 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sexual Chemistry: Understanding Our Hormones, the Pill and Hrt (Hardcover)

This book shows the long term effects of synthetic hormones leading to cancer and thrombosis etc. in women and side effects on men.

Its well-researched and written by one of the Doctors who did the first trials on the pill in the 60's & 70's and shows the side effects.

Also shows how the scientists distorted the results of the tests to give the impression that the Pill was good for you and ignored the fact that most of the women who started the trials of HRT and the pill gave up before the end of the trial because of severe side effects and only reported on the people left at the end of the trial saying they had no side effects. Explains about the dangers of high oestrogen from eating animals (given hormones to boost growth) and hormones given to pregnant women and underage teenagers.

Its a must read.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you thought the dangers of HRT were a "new" discovery ..., February 3, 2004

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Britchick - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexual Chemistry: Understanding Our Hormones, the Pill and Hrt (Hardcover)

This is a book which exposes much of the hype and plain misinformation peddled about these dangerous drugs -- both the Pill and HRT -- from a medical, *not* a religious or moral, standpoint. She is not against the concept of contraception, but the method used -- these powerful drugs.

What it makes clear is how these drugs are steroids, just as much as corticosteroids and anabolic steroids with many of the same effects, entirely suppressing and replacing the bodily sex hormones not only in the ovaries but also in the adrenal glands. Unsurprisingly both the Pill and HRT can be shown to hugely increase the risk of sex hormone dependent cancers such as breast cancer and other medical conditions such as thrombosis, antiphospholipid sydrome and other autoimmune disorders such as Lupus and Raynaud's syndrome in women not previously predisposed to these conditions. Dr Grant has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

Dr Grant says the lowered doses in more recent drugs does not lessen the risk of many disorders. What docs are now saying about HRT, Dr Grant was saying far more strongly many years ago when HRT was being lauded.

She shows how these powerful external steroids (and it doesn't matter whether they are synthetic or so-called "natural") are many hundreds of times more powerful than bodily hormones, interfering with all the systems in the body. She also says, "All this can lead to more infections, more food and chemical allergy, weight problems such as anorexia or obesity, osteoporosis and cancer". She demonstrates that HRT and The Pill are basically the same drugs with the same effects on girls and women prescribed these drugs for contraception, menopause, menstrual disorders.

This is a book which demands to be updated and reprinted for basic information (including lots of clinical proof) about these drugs, otherwise usually unavailable to lay readers in plain speaking language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must-read book, September 7, 2006

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J. Steinbachs - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sexual Chemistry: Understanding Our Hormones, the Pill and Hrt (Hardcover)

This book is very well written. Dr. Grant participated in some ofthe early clinical trials of hormone pills (those used for HRT, by the way, are the same as those used for birth control). The trials for men stopped when men started getting shriveled parts; the trials for women continued in spite of deaths of participants. Yikes. Having read this book, I will never ever again take hormone pills and will definitely be advocating different family planning methods to my friends.