Restoring Order to Hormone Replacement Therapy
John Davis, Ph.D., N.D. clears up the recent confusion about hormone medication.

After recent reports, the conventional medical world and many women in their menopausal years are extremely concerned and confused about the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Reputable medical researchers, in several studies, have concluded, first that PremPro (supplemented estrogen and progesterone) may increase the likelihood of certain cancers, especially breast cancer. What was known to only a few physicians and totally unsuspected by the rest is that supplemented estrogen does not give much, if any, help for the very reasons it was said to be prescribed . . . to prevent heart disease. HRT apparently has some positive effects in the area of osteoporosis prevention. However, since both estrogen and progesterone were given, we cannot know for sure the source of that benefit. It could be progesterone alone. Many think so, but the jury is still out. We do know that weight bearing exercise is of tremendous help. Use caution, though, if osteoporosis has been diagnosed or suspected.

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