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

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available from drug companies that could resp<strong>on</strong>d to the individualized need of hospital<br />

patients. As pharmacy schools backed off from educating pharmacists in compounding,<br />

the art and science of compounding was nearly lost.<br />

But not surprisingly, the need for specialized drugs with individualized dosing did<br />

not go away. Now there is a resurgence of demand for compounding pharmacy, driven by<br />

the needs of patients not met by the medicati<strong>on</strong>s available from the drug industry,<br />

patients who cannot be treated with standard dosage forms.<br />

Examples of this include Hospice patients who cannot swallow their medicati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

and need compounded medicati<strong>on</strong>s in the form of Transdermal creams; patients that are<br />

allergic to preservatives and need preservative free medicati<strong>on</strong>s; patients that are lactose-<br />

intolerant and need lactose free medicati<strong>on</strong>s; ne<strong>on</strong>ates and pediatric patients that require<br />

drug dosages not available without compounding; and patients that need medicati<strong>on</strong>s the<br />

drug industry has deemed no l<strong>on</strong>ger profitable and disc<strong>on</strong>tinued.<br />

Standards and Over Site <strong>on</strong> the Wiley Protocol<br />

For the Wiley Protocol the patient doses in a fashi<strong>on</strong> which replicates the<br />

reproductive horm<strong>on</strong>al cycle in serum blood levels. The preparati<strong>on</strong>s are not<br />

commercially available and are applied to the skin, so, must be compounded by a<br />

compounding pharmacist. We have had very significant success in women who can not<br />

take other bio-identical or synthetic pharmaceutical medicati<strong>on</strong>s by mouth, Transdermnal<br />

route or injecti<strong>on</strong>. We will so<strong>on</strong> publish our accomplished standardizati<strong>on</strong> of a<br />

Compounded bio-identical horm<strong>on</strong>e results. C<strong>on</strong>tact plofltolm~aol.com<br />

Below is just an example of the potency analysis we require of the Registered<br />

Pharmacies:

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