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Brittle bones and blocked blood vessels: a cautionary tale

The current pharmaceutical standard of care for management of bone loss is supplemental calcium and the bisphosphonate drug class. The generics for the latter have the name formula of : ”XYZ – dronate”. Currently there are six versions on the market, and they are prescribed more than 25 million times per year. Obviously, brittle and broken bones are not only a…

Menopausal HRT done right is NOT a risky proposition

     A recent review of the hormone literature supports what bio-identical literate doctors have been saying for years, that the bio-identical matches of hormone replacement (estrogen alone, or estrogen and progesterone) do not affect a woman’s risk of dying from any cause, or more specifically, from heart attack, stroke, or cancer.       Dr. Khalid Benkhadra, M.D. and his colleagues presented a…

Traditional HRT continues to disappoint

     Another big study speaks to what we’ve known for more than 14 years, that failing to use bio-identical progesterone with post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a risky proposition.  One would think that the medical profession would be getting the message about this, but it’s a slow process. The British medical journal Lancet* recently reported on a long term review…