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

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are mind-boggling) The problem is, they have no idea how to prescribe hormones for
women. Most of them didn't even do a rotation in endocrinology in med school.
They flock to large seminars held on bioidentical prescribing by the larger
compounding pharmacies and associations like the American College for the
Advancement of Medicine (ACAM) or American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
(A4M), who can afford the more expensive "talenf' (other self-proclaimed physician
experts) to draw a crowd. Right now physicians are in serious need of re-education that
bears some resemblance to endocrinology. The way women are treated skirts dangerously
close to fad. The flavor de jour in BHRT really does change every day.
Doctors who prescribe the Wiley Protocol are in the vanguard of an elite group of
forward-thinking physicians and researchers trying to put the scientific method back into
medicine. All HRT and bio-identical hormones, particularly, still reside in a no-man's
land of uncertainty when it comes to prescribing because of the lack of long-term study
and testing. By asking the physicians to use one of the many pharmacies that I've trained
with other licensed pharmacists (Dana Nelson, Paul Lofholm R.Ph D.) Registered to
dispense the Wiley Protocol® prescriptions, we have eliminated all the guess-work and
potential errors in prescribing natural hormones.
Big Pharma is willing to educate the physician, minimally, about synthetic
hormones and, of course, all drugs, but, here and now, the only commercial enterprise
handing out natural hormone information to any professional group is PCCA
(Professional Compounding Centers of America). PCCA aims to educate Compounders
on the "hows" and "whys" of preparing bio-identical hormone preparations and,
unfortunately, a lot more information that is of questionable value to women. We have a
better plan, a plan that keeps the pharmacist from encroaching on the physician's
territory.
With the opportunity for our Registered, trained in methods and material,
pharmacies to have a Wiley Protocol® Clinical Practice Guidelines Manual, as well as
their Wiley Protocol® Methods and Materials Guide, the Doctor and the Pharmacist can
be sure that the patients treatment guidelines are consistent, reducing the possible
variables for further diagnosis which will make safety and efficacy possible. The doctor