Ensuring Access to Bioidential HRT
June 26th, 2008Christiane Northrup, M.D. who wrote Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom penned the letter below and I was inspired to share it with you. It will be of particular interest to US citizens….
Greetings,
Recently, I told you about the FDA’s attempt to prevent compounding pharmacies from using estriol (a bioidentical form of estrogen), an action that was instigated by Wyeth Labs. I urge you to join the ground swell of women and men, doctors and lay persons, who are notifying their congressional representative that this is unacceptable. When it comes to hormone replacement, women deserve access to all the options, especially bioidentical hormones (BHRT) which are safe, highly effective, and natural to a women’s body.I encourage you to let your congressional representative know that you want to preserve your right to choose BHRT by following the link below in the message from Citizens for Health. Together we can make a difference.
Sincerely,Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Click here to read more.
We can all visualise women having the very best of natural, medical and complementary supports and information in all stages of fertility.
In joy, Deirdre Morris
June 27th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Thanks for posting this letter — I’ve already emailed it to a bunch of people. Christian Northrup is just so awesome! Check out womentowomen.com for lots of great health advice — including tons of info on bioidenticals. Women to Women was the clinic Dr. Northrup helped found in Yarmouth, Maine and the site has all of the clinic’s teachings, etc.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
www.womentowomen.com is a great resource for us all.
Dr. Northrup is great… a wonderful role model and inspiration.
Just like you I suspect!
Thanks for you comment Jacqueline.
Deirdre
June 29th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Thanks Deirdre for posting this letter from Dr. Northrup. She is a gem among physicians who is truly an advocate for all women wherever they find themselves in their life passage.
It is so upsetting the extent to which the health of women and children are subject to market forces here in the States and elsewhere.
Wyeth is one of the leading producers of artificial baby milk; much of their vast fortune comes from producing and marketing both synthetic concoctions of female hormones derived from horses urine and infant “formulas” made from the modified milk of cows.
It is absolutely ridiculous that the FDA would be trying to eliminate bioidentical hormones which have been around since the beginning of the 20′th century. They actually relieve some of the unpleasant symptoms of diminishing hormones and are given in doses tailored to each woman.
Perhaps it is a case of sour grapes…Wyyeth may be worried that they will lose their control over this burgeoning market of baby boomers if the bioidentical hormones are allowed to continue to co-exist with their product which has a questionable safety and efficacy profile.
Thanks to Dr. Northrup and other outspoken advocates like Suzanne Somers, we women are being encouraged to make choices for our own health and well-being around the issue of hormone replacement that are not about the bottom-line of big drug companies.
As a woman, a nurse, a lactation consultant and an advocate for women and babies, I am so thrilled that you are highlighting this important issue here.
What a wonderful magical beginning for baby to have mom be empowered and inspired by such wisdom.