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Bioidentical hormones - The Wiley Protocol

Posted on Aug 26th, 2006 by Yogini : Healer Yogini
I just went to a lecture this morning by TS ("Susie") Wiley, authoress of Sex, Lies and Menopause. I found her to be a compelling speaker who really knows her endocrinology and I am intrigued by her ideas that it's the static doses of hormone replacement that caused the disease in the Women's Health Initiative (remember the banner headlines of "hormones bad!" in 2002?). The Wiley Protocol makes physiologic sense although there are no long-term outcome trials of how women do on it; we only have Susie's anecdotal experience together with some registry data that she is keeping on 1000+ women. Even so, the premise that the key to slowing down the aging process that begins at age 35+ for women is to replace hormones the way our body made them in our 20s makes common sense. Many of her theories are substantiated by other researchers and I agree with her that you really need to understand hormone receptor theory to prescribe hormones properly. I've found that most of the people prescribing hormones don't understand receptor theory. Susie's use in endometriosis is very interesting since it seems to fit with what has been proven over the last few decades. I agree with her that many women have been misinformed by big pharma about hormones and it's the devil we know, the premarin and prempro, that are the bad players and not bioidentical hormones. That said, I think the safer bet is to assume bioidenticals have many of the risks of synthetics until proven otherwise. I'm going to try The Wiley Protocol on myself first and consider it for other women.
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