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

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Dr. David Wright at Emory University Medical School in Atlanta
has been testing compounded progesterone for head injury. In a 3year
trial of 100 such patients, 80 received high-dose progesterone
over 72 hours after trauma and 20 did not.
The study on young men-not women-found that those receiving
compounded progesterone were 50 percent less likely to die.
There was less disability at the 1-month mark than would normally
be expected considering the severity of their head injuries.
Marcus Baskett of Commerce, GA, was one of those patients in
a head-on automobile collision just 3 weeks shy of his high school
graduation. Early tests of his brain function suggested massive and
disabling head injury.
He spent almost 3 weeks in a coma. Then, 4 weeks later, Baskett
was released with lingering physical injuries but little evidence of
the severe head trauma. Three years later, a 21-year-old Baskett
is back 100 percent.
There are uses for compounded bioidentical hormones that none
of us have ever even imagined. To consider eliminating them is to
limit the researchers' imagination everywhere.
[The prepared statement of Ms. Wiley follows:]