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| The Dangers of Hormone Replacement Therapy |
| 06.24.09 (1:08 pm) [edit] |
The Dangers of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Even powerful multi-national, billion-dollar drug firms can’t squash the truth forever. Eventually the truth came out in the form of a large government-funded study known as the Women's Health Initiative, which exposed the real dangers of HRT. The hormone trials were stopped early when researchers discovered an increased risk of breast cancer and other side effects that greatly outweighed the benefits of the therapy.
Just ONE YEAR after millions of women quit taking HRT, incidents of breast cancer fell by seven percent!
It is hard to describe how frustrating it was to argue against arrogant and ignorant physicians back then, who claimed that this form of treatment was actually helping women.
Other studies looking at the long-term usage of synthetic estrogen have revealed many negative side effects, including:
Heart attacks
Strokes
Blood clots
High blood pressure
Vaginal bleeding
The following hormone prescriptions now carry black box warnings:
Premarin. Premarin is an estrogen extracted from a pregnant mare’s urine and is associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
Estrogen Therapy. Estrogen, which is extracted from Premarin, was effective in combating some menopausal symptoms but proved to have serious, negative side effects, such as the increased risk of breast cancer and an increase in insulin levels.
Provera. This drug contains a synthetic form of progesterone called PROGESTIN, which has well-documented, negative side effects such as blood clotting. Progestin is probably even more dangerous than Premarin and is the same class of hormones that are in all birth control pills.
There’s no question that nearly all medicinal estrogen is unhealthy and can cause more problems than they prevent. Studies have found that HRT increases your breast cancer risk by at least one percent per year, and HRT with progestin increases your risk by eight percent per year, potentially going as high as 30 percent after just four years of use.
HRT was at one point also thought to protect against heart disease, bone fractures, and Alzheimer’s disease. But none of those claims turned out to be true either after more diligent investigation.
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