It is not unusual for Oprah Winfrey to be in the news.?? Recently she had a show on the benefits of bio-identical hormones. Oprah has long been a champion of natural hormones (another way of saying “bio-identical” – just easier to type!) and has featured advocate Suzanne Somers more than once.
Natural hormones are important in the treatment of many maladies suffered by women, including migraine headaches.
What was interesting was the fallout in the mainstream media reflecting the kneejerk views of maintream media and the big drug companies (who advertise in the media).?? Newsweek magazine carried a front page hit piece on Oprah that exemplified this attack.
There is a wonderful rebuttal by Dr. Jeffrey Dach on?? Wellsphere.com.?? Here is the link to his blog article.
It is the usual reactions we see from mainstream medicine and their big drug company masters.?? They love to say that natural hormones are not studied, not safe, not regulated and not prescribed.?? They are wrong on all accounts.
What natural hormones don’t have are patents because they are found in nature.?? And anything found in nature cannot be patented.?? Nevertheless, some drug companies have patented some process of manufacturing or delivering a natural hormone and?? got that into a prescription format.?? Climara patch is a good example.
Mainstream medicine really has no idea that the usual prescribed synthetic hormones are just bastardized versions of hormones.?? And yes, synthetic hormones that are not human in form are poisons.?? A half century of synthetic hormone replacement therapy, in conjunction with birth control pills has done significant damage to the last four generations of women.
On the other hand, natural hormones are exactly the same thing as the hormones that your body is supposed to me making.?? By definition, they cannot be harmful, unless our Maker intended for the human species to last only one generation.
Natural hormones are dose responsive.?? This means that the more you take, the bigger the dose and the effects are known and predictable.?? Not harmful – just predictable.?? This is why medical students take first year physiology and bio-chemistry classes.?? We studied all this and know how it works.?? I studied this when I was in medical school 23 years ago.
But I was also taught that Provera was the same thing as progesterone.?? It isn’t.?? Provera has progestin-like effects but it is NOT progesterone.?? It took me 15 years to figure that out.?? Many of my mainstream colleagues still believe that Provera is progesterone.
I know the battles I had to face with my mainstream medical colleagues regarding the danger of synthetic, chemically altered hormones that most of you have taken over the years (including birth control pills).?? Oprah is facing the same thing in Newsweek and other mainstream media outlets now.
Oprah is right on.?? Keep up the good work.
Andrew Jones, M.D.
Medical Director, Women’s Health Institute of Texas