Bioidentical Hormones - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

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Bio-identical progesterone replacement is a shoe-in as a cancer treatment because
cancer was never about cellular overgrowth. It has always been about not enough death--
in the presence of overgrowth. But cutting edge medicine has never equated menopause
with cancer, even though cancer strikes at the time in a woman's life when her hormones
are disappearing. The Standard of Care treatment plan is to further remove her estrogen.
Taking estrogen away from women, or selectively blocking it without ever considering
the synergy between the estrogen and progesterone, the most selective potent apoptotic
factor known in the human body, is not the way to eradicate cancer.
It's the way to cause heart disease and Alzheimer's.
Are They <strong>Bioidentical</strong> <strong>Hormones</strong> Bio-identical or Not?
Even natural bio-identical hormones are not bio-identical unless your body can
recognize them as hormones. Since natural hormone replacement is possible, the other
half of the question is how to take bio-identical hormones? The scientific studies looking
at the differences in Oral (by mouth) and Transdermal (using a neutral cream base as a
carrier of the hormone) show significantly less side effects when hormones enter the
bloodstream through the skin and fat base barrier just like Type Is take insulin. So
through the skin is "how". What remains is "when". Replacement is not replacement
unless you truly replace what has been lost.
The idea that hormone "replacement" could be affected by a one time a day, same
dose every day regimen is illogical. The hallmark of an endocrine system is pulsitilty and
amplitude, meaning that hormones pulse every few seconds and their amounts go higher
and higher, depending on the time of the month in the case of estrogen and progesterone.
So it seemed to me that the way to achieve HRT with least side-effects was to use a bio-
identical molecule for both hormones, transdermally, in doses that could increase and
decrease over time.
Natural hormones are not bio-identical unless they replace precisely the "natural"
rhythmic levels of your own estrogen and progesterone when you were a young woman.
Currently, the standard hormone replacement therapy you would receive from a doctor
would be PremPro, or Premarin, if you've had a hysterectomy. And doctors who want to