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

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rarely experience heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Old people very, very often do. And
the difference between "young" and "old" is what happens in the middle or mid-life --
hormonalfall-off The incidence of heart disease for women equilibrates (catches up)
with men ten years after menopause. The big clue there could be the sudden absence of
estrogen for the first time in their lives.
There is enormous data from two researchers named Grady and Rubin, who
looked at 85% of the world's data on estrogen and cardiovascular effects and found that
the positive cardiovascular effect of estrogen in decreasing blood pressure and lipid
profiles was unparalleled by pharmacological agents. Could the just lack of hormones
explain why the rate of heart attack among women in this country is ten times-less than it
is in men until menopause or, gasp, the epidemic of breast cancer from forty on in
women? Makes us wonder. Everybody "knows" estrogen causes cancer. But do we know
that, or, have we just been told that?
Reasoning vs. Rationalizations about Estrogen
Common sense belies the logic that natural (not synthetic drugs with hormone-
like effects) hormone replacement, in and of itself, could ever cause cancer. If estrogen
and progesterone, or even testosterone, caused cancer, all young women would be dead.
They're full of it. So if logic tells us that estrogen doesn't actually cause cancer in and of
itself, then there must be more to the story-like what kind and how much estrogen and
when to take it.
There are too many pieces of evidence that real estrogen replacement, not
PremPro, also negates the need for bisphosphonates, the commercial pharmaceutical
treatment for osteoporosis. Those drugs in newer data are implicated in actually
weakening bone. Because this class of drugs blocks old bone resorption and there's no
progesterone to normally build new bone-it turns into a substance akin to petrified
wood. Bisphosphonates are now known to cause micro-fractures in bone that must have
a normal estrogen/progesterone metabolism to be healthy.
Estrogen-also alleviates mild to moderate depression, the most common diagnosis
in women ages 40 to 50. However, Dr. Joanne Manson of Harvard, who, too, has written
her own book, called "Hot Flashes, <strong>Hormones</strong> and Your Health." insists hot flashes "are