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

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The Inevitable is Acceptable Because it's Natural
Not even. Menopause is certainly not "natural." There is no menopause in nature.
They never mention that on Lifetime. You'll get more accurate scientific reporting on
Animal Planet. The animals always die when they're no longer reproductive.
Otherwise, we would hang around and compete for the food supply with the
offspring of the reproductive (young) animals. That scenario benefits no one. That's why
there's a fail-safe in nature. When a female runs out of eggs and her hormone levels
bottom out, its game over. Her judgment flags, her spirits plummet, her immune system
freaks out, homeostasis goes out the window and she goes not so gentle into that
goodnight, unless someone does the right thing and pushes her out to sea on an ice floe
for the good of the "group".
The elderly experience auto-immune conditions like arthritis or Lupus or
Parkinson's disease and the more obvious degenerative states like Alzheimer's or
cataracts and macular degeneration. But, what if real hormone replacement could really
mimic youthful hormone levels, not just mask a few obvious symptoms, and therefore;
was a cure for those diseases? It does make logical sense. After all, young women don't
have those diseases and the difference between young women and old women is
reproductive capacity Eid thc attendant hormones. Therefore, it's logical that the majority
of women with normal hormones don't have those diseases.
Menopause, and andropause in men, are states of hormone depletion akin to the
failure of Type I diabetics to produce insulin from their own pancreas. Type I diabetics
take a bio-identical molecule of insulin, using a short needle, through their skin,
dosing it as their bodies would have produced it-after a meal, depending on what the
meal consisted of and they live long, pretty comfortable, healthy, productive lives. One
of the shining moments in medicine in the last century was the synthesis of insulin for
replacement in Type I's, and yet medicine refuses to acknowledge the obvious -- that the
replacement of sex hormones in the same manner might put a serious dent in the diseases
of old age.
Instead, the Today Show offers health advice like "herbs, acupuncture,
aromatherapy and massage" for menopausal "discomfort." Aromatherapy?? We'd like to