Researchers in Tokyo gave rats a carcinogen that promotes colon cancer. The rats were divided into three groups. One group was fed a regular diet. The second group got a low dose of CoQ10. The third got a medium dose.    The results were amazing.

Both of the groups that received CoQ10 had reductions in abnormal crypts (an early sign of colon cancer) of up to 77%. Ultimately, the results of this study suggested that CoQ10 held cancer in check even when exposed to this carcinogen.

Another study done at the of at documented 10 cases of cancer patients who unexpectedly survived when treated with CoQ10.

It works by blocking the free radicals that can ultimately damage the DNA in your cells. It also helps re-energize the immune system cells that get suppressed by cancer. It restores their ability to fight back and attack the cancer cells.

Researchers in studied a group of breast cancer patients. They gave them CoQ10, plus a combination of other antioxidants and essential-fatty acids. The result?

The entire group had a partial remission of the cancer. But here's where things get very interesting…

Two of the patients received larger doses of CoQ10 (390 mg). Their tumors disappeared.

Here's what the researchers said regarding one of the patients:

"After three months, the patient was in excellent clinical condition and there was no residual tumor tissue."

Remarkable isn't it?

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Women Suffer Needlessly from Confusion about Hormones

by Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor

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(NaturalNews) Many women are so confused and frightened about hormone replacement that they have decided to forget about it. This reaction is not surprising because almost daily there is a new scare headline blaring at them about how hormone replacement causes cancer or even brain shrinkage. Women who were recently told they could regain their lost sexuality by using hormones are now being warned against it. All this confusion is a shame. As a result of it, women are losing out on feeling their best and getting the most from their lives.

When it comes to hormones, names mean very little

To understand hormone replacement requires the patience to look beyond the name. This is because the hormones produced naturally by the body, the hormone drug products made by pharmaceutical companies, and the bioidentical hormones offered by physicians who specialize in anti-aging medicine, are all referred to simply as hormones. When the headlines blare, there is little or no effort made to inform women about what type of hormones are being discussed. To add to this confusion, the names of the hormones most often replaced, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, have become generic terms. These terms are used freely and without regulation to describe the natural hormones produced by the body, hormone drug products, and bioidentical hormones.

To further confuse matters, all hormone replacement therapy, whether it involves hormone drug products or bioidentical hormones is referred to as HRT in most publications. Few physicians or journalists bother to make the distinction as to whether they are talking about hormone drug products or bioidentical hormones. Many may not even be aware of this distinction. The rare journalist willing to distinguish will refer to information regarding bioidentical hormone replacement as bHRT.

There are three kinds of hormones replacement therapies

Hormone drugs should really be referred to as hormone substitution drugs. While they are able to mimic some of the same effects as the body's natural hormones they are unable to confer their full range of benefits. With the exception of conjugated estrogen, hormone drug products are not naturally occurring in nature, and as a result the body's immune system mounts an attack on them. This action compromises the immune system's ability to do the job it was meant to do, and may be one reason cancer is associated with hormone replacement drugs.

The most often prescribed form of the estrogen hormone drug is advertised as a natural product, and technically it is. It is derived from naturally occurring horse urine. But it does not have the same molecular structure as the estrogen naturally made by the human female. There are side effects associated with its use that include endometrial cancer, stoke, and deep vein thrombosis. This product should not be referred to in literature as estrogen, but should be termed conjugated equine estrogen or at least conjugated estrogen.

When faced with a patient exhibiting a broad range of symptoms indicating hormone deficiency, some physicians will prescribe conjugated equine estrogen alone. Taking any kind of estrogen alone, without assuring there are adequate amounts of progesterone and testosterone present, is very dangerous because it creates a state of hormonal imbalance in the body that has been associated with huge increases in risk for breast cancer.

A physician who knows conjugated estrogen must be balanced may also prescribe what is generically called progesterone, but is in reality a progestin. Progestins are not progesterone, no matter what the pharmaceutical brochures say. They are synthetic replicas of progesterone with low compatibility in the human body. Progestins are associated with a horrible range of side effects and are the most dangerous of the hormone replacement drugs.

Because hormone drugs alter reality by creating substances that are unnatural in the body, the liver must detoxify them. Daily doses of toxic products over a period of time can result the liver being compromised to the point where it is unable to perform its duty of keeping the body detoxified. When that happens, hormone drugs and their metabolites recirculate in the body and wreck havoc. The wisdom of the body recognizes unnatural compounds and develops resistance to them so that hormone drugs lose any positive effect in the body after a few years.

The conjugated estrogen plus progestin sub-study of the famous Women's Health Initiative Study reported highly elevated risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, invasive breast cancer, pulmonary emboli, deep vein thrombosis, and dementia from this combination. It is because of results such as these that it is recommended that women be given hormone drug products for the shortest period of time possible.

In the fully functioning female body, estrogen levels rise in the absence of progesterone for the first two weeks in of the cycle. Then estrogen levels taper off and progesterone kicks in to become the dominant hormone of the second two weeks in the cycle. When conjugated estrogen is prescribed with progestins, the health benefits that result from the natural rhythms of the body are lost. Since the prescribed pill contains both compound, a woman receives a constant dose of progestins throughout the whole month.

The hormone drug product that mimics some of the benefits of testosterone is often referred to as simply testosterone. In reality most hormone drug products that claim to be testosterone are actually methyltestosterone, an unnatural, synthetic creation. Methyltestosterone has been implicated in breast and liver cancers.

Following the one-size-fits all approach of hormone drug therapy, methyltestosterone is included in the same pill as conjugated estrogen. There is no way to adjust the dose to match it to the individual needs of the woman. As a result, most of the side effects of methyltestosterone reflect that the dose is too high or is being inappropriately converted into other hormones in the body. These include acne, high blood pressure, excessive and coarse facial and body hair, deepening voice, polycystic ovary syndrome, weight gain, and unstable blood sugar levels.

Hormone drug products are usually chosen to be prescribed by traditional doctors. Since they get most of their product information from drug companies, they were sold on hormone drugs as the solution for their patients' complaining of symptoms that reflect declining hormone levels. Following the release of the Women's Health Initiative, many women refused to continue taking hormone drugs and completely discontinued all hormone therapy. As pharmaceutical companies began to feel the pinch, they made the shift away from producing hormone drugs toward production of bioidentical hormones, although many hormone drugs are still widely available and the first choice of many doctors who have yet to learn about bioidenticals.

Natural hormone therapy is a term frequently used incorrectly to refer to bioidentical hormone therapy. Natural hormone therapy, which should be designated as nHRT, actually uses molecules that have some effects similar to those of the body's own hormones, but do not have the exact same molecular structure as the hormones made by the body. These are naturally occurring substances, not drugs. Phytoestrogens are hormones naturally found in plants and fall into this category.

Natural hormone replacement products are widely available without a prescription. Some of the most well known are lignans, found in walnuts and other kinds of nuts, and flax seeds and flax oil. There are also isoflavones, such as the controversial genistein and diadzien, both found in soybeans. Red clover is well known for its high phytoestrogen content, as is vitex and black cohosh. There are many phytoestrogen preparations on the market that offer several of these compounds in one capsule.

Women use natural hormone therapy to help see themselves through the worst symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes and night sweats. For some women, these products are effective and offer some relief of symptoms. However, because these hormones are very weak compared to the natural hormones produced by the human female, they are not particularly effective for many women. They do offer some protection from breast cancer and osteoporosis, but they are unable to provide the full range of health benefits that would come from being able to restore the body's own natural hormones.

Bioidentical hormone therapy, which should be distinguished by the letters bHRT, uses hormones manufactured from soy or yam oils. Their molecular structure is identical to hormones made by the human female. Anyone looking at them under a microscope would not be able to tell the difference. The term bioidentical is not a marketing term, but a descriptive term, describing the difference between bioidentical hormones and all others not produced by the body.

Bioidentical hormones have been used for thousands of years. The first record of their use goes back to ancient , where the aging female nobility routinely ingested dried young women's urine to counteract problems associated with menopause. The urine of young women contains the metabolic waste products of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. There are many references throughout history to young women's urine being used to help older women overcome the problems of aging.

Bioidentical estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone have a right to be called by those names because that is what they are. They are identical to the estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone found in the female body. Bioidentical estradiol (the dominant estrogen found in women), progesterone, and testosterone are FDA approved. Estradiol and testosterone are available only by prescription. Progesterone is available over the counter in a physiologic dose, a dose that replicates the levels normally found in the healthy young female.

Bioidentical hormones are commercially mass produced and are available at local pharmacies in tablet, patch, capsule and gel form. Examples include the Vivelle patch, Climara, Estraderm, Estrace, Prometrium, and Androgel. Being mass produced, these products are standardized to specific doses, making them problematic for many women and physicians. To circumvent this problem, compounding pharmacies make bioidentical hormone products to fit the exact dose prescribed by a doctor who specializes in hormone replacement or anti-aging medicine. Compounding pharmacies dispense hormones in gels, creams, capsules, pellets, and as sublinguals.

The best way to get a prescription for bioidentical hormones is to ask your regular doctor to give you one. If he does not know about them or ties to prescribe hormones drugs, try to educate him. Many doctors are receptive to bioidenticals and just need their consciousness raised. If that does not work, find a doctor who specializes in hormone replacement or anti-aging medicine.

Bioidentical hormones have been shown repeatedly not only to be safe, but to be protective of health. When levels of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone are restored to what they were when a woman was at her hormonal prime, bioidentical hormones have been shown to protect against breast cancer, heart attack, stoke, and cognitive impairment. Because bioidenticals are identical in molecular structure to the hormones produced by the body, the body accepts them as such. There is no immune response or development of resistance. When bioidenticals are prescribed in physiologic doses, there are usually no side effects. If side effects develop, it is an indication that dosages need to be adjusted.

Those troubling studies involved the use of hormone drug therapy

The study showing hormone therapy shrinks the brain used data collected as part of the Women's Health Initiative Study. Data collection was completed before the startling results about the dangers of hormone drugs were made public. The women in the study were taking conjugated equine estrogen, the estrogen drug made from horse urine that is in no way identical to the estrogen made by the female body. Some of the participants were taking conjugated equine estrogen alone, and some were taking a combination drug that contained the equine estrogen and a synthetic progestin drug.

What about the study warning against use of the testosterone patch to boost female libido? Given the success of Viagra for men, it is not surprising that drug companies are falling over each other trying to produce a female equivalent. But the truth is that Intrinsa is just a fancy delivery system for a synthetic methyltestosterone hormone drug.

Women produce just one-tenth the testosterone produced by men, but that little bit is critical to libido and to overall health. Symptoms of declining testosterone levels in women are low sex drive, depression, weakness, fatigue, low energy, and panic attacks. If a woman suspects her libido is low, testosterone may not be the only hormone that needs to be replaced. Estrogen and progesterone levels must be assessed and replaced if they are inadequate. Bringing each of these hormones up to optimal levels with bioidentical hormone replacement gives a real boost to sagging libido while providing other health benefits to the body.

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Keep Aging Parents Happy, Healthy and Independent with Bioidentical Hormones

By Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
Reviewed by Marian Beilharz

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    Again Barbara Minton writes another fascinating article about Bioidentical Hormones, and again I am drawn to the information I find so interesting because of my own experience with my mother who lived a vivacious, active, and mentally sharp life until the age of 99.  She was six months from her 100 birthday when she died in a nursing home.  She moved into the nursing home in December, because of a bedsore and she died on Mother’s Day. She was blessed with her independence and even her driver’s license until she was 93.  There is a treasure of practical advice in this article.  Please read it carefully and consider the advice that is given.

(NaturalNews) People caring for aging parents or just thinking about it realize that keeping them healthy, happy and active for as long as possible is ideal for everyone. Aging parents seldom want to become physically dependent on their children for care. Grown children, often referred to as the sandwich generation, find it difficult to provide quality care for aging parents while providing quality care for their own children at the same time. Recent studies have highlighted that multiple hormone deficiencies compromise the quality of life for older men and women, and are predictors of the heart failure and frailty that lead to loss of independence. These studies underscore the critical need for bioidentical hormone replacement to assure that aging parents can make the best of their golden years and maintain their independence for as long as possible.

Women with multiple hormonal deficiencies are highly likely to be frail

most studies involving hormone deficiency and aging have focused on the relationship between individual hormones and specific age-associated disease. In a recently released study, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigated the possibility that frailty would mostly likely manifest in the presence of deficits in multiple hormones. They studied the relationships of serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), DHEAS, and unbound testosterone with frailty status in aging women.

The study used 494 women aged 70 to 79 years who were enrolled in the Women's Health and Aging Studies I or II. Scientists calculated the odds of frailty for deficiency of each hormone, which they defined as the bottom quartile of hormone level. They found that for each hormone, those with a deficiency were more likely to be frail than those without a deficiency. Compared with women who showed no hormonal deficiencies, those with one deficiency were somewhat more likely to be frail. However, those women with two or three deficiencies had a very high likelihood of being frail. The odds ratio for frailty for these women was 2.79, meaning that women who were deficient in more than one hormone had almost a 3 times greater risk of being frail than women who were not hormonally deficient.

The scientists concluded that the absolute burden of hormonal deficiencies in the bodies of aging women was a stronger predictor of frailty status than the type of hormonal deficiency. They found the relationship to be exponential, and suggestive of generalized endocrine dysfunction in the frailty syndrome. This study may be found in the January 31 edition of Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

People diagnosed as frail lose the ability to care for themselves and live independently

Frailty is characterized by unexplained weight loss, exhaustion, weak grip, slow walking speed, and generalized low energy levels. Women who are frail are the most vulnerable, most at risk for disability or death, and are the highest users of medical care. In a nationwide study of 5,000 older adults, those who were frail were found to be six times more likely to die than those who were not over a three-year period, and more than three times more likely to die over a seven-year period. After seven years, 43 percent of those who were frail had died, compared to 23 percent of those who were classified as intermediate, and 12 percent of those who were robust.

A diagnosis of frailty is made based on symptoms such as shrinking (unintentional weight loss of at least 10 pounds or 5 percent of body weight compared to a year ago), weakness (grip strength in the lowest 20th percentile), poor endurance and energy (self-reported exhaustion), slowness (the most time it takes to walk 15 feet), and low physical activity level (the lowest 20 percent in physical activity compared to others).

Frail women have a very high incidence of osteoporosis. They are the most likely group to suffer falls that result in broken bones, and may even suffer broken bones without a fall. Frail women and men are the highest users of disease establishment services and are the most likely to be admitted to nursing homes.

Men with multiple hormonal deficiencies are more than twice as likely to die

Aging in men is also characterized by progressive decline in levels of hormones such as testosterone, IGF-1, and DHEAS. In a study at the National Institute on Aging, scientists investigated whether deficiencies in these hormones were associated with higher mortality. Testosterone, IGF-1, DHEAS, and demographic factors were evaluated in 410 men age 65 and older enrolled in the Aging in the Chianti Area Study.

The men were divided into four groups: no hormone in the lowest reference quartile, and 1, 2, and 3 hormones in the lowest quartiles. Compared with men having levels of all 3 hormones above the lowest quartiles, having 1, 2, and 3 deficient hormones was associated with hazard ratios for mortality of 1.47, 1.85, and 2.29. This means that men deficient in 3 hormones were more than two and one-quarter times more likely to die. The scientists concluded that age associated decline in hormone levels is a strong independent predictor of mortality in older men. Having multiple hormone deficiencies is a reliable biomarker of health status in older men. This study is from the November, 2007 Archives of Internal Medicine.

Hormonally deficient men with chronic heart failure have the poorest prognosis

In men with chronic heart failure, hormone depletion is common. A deficiency of each hormone is an independent marker of poor prognosis according to a study at the Military Hospital of Wroclaw, Poland. Serum levels of total testosterone, DHEAS, and IGF-1 were obtained from 208 men with chronic heart failure who were hospitalized or treated as outpatients, and from a reference population of 366 men free of chronic disease.

Deficiencies in DHEAS, total and unbound testosterone, and IGF-1, defined as serum levels at or below the 10th percentile of healthy peers, were seen across all age categories of men with chronic heart failure. DHEAS deficiency correlated positively with left ventricular disturbance. Testosterone measures and IGF-1 levels were prognostic biomarkers. Men with chronic heart failure and normal levels of all hormones had the best 3 year survival rate (83 percent) compared to those with 1 hormone deficiency (74 percent survival rate), 2 hormone deficiencies (55 percent survival rate), and 3 hormone deficiencies (27 percent) survival rate. This study is from the October 24, 2006 edition of Circulation.

It really doesn't have to be this way

We were not made to live so long. Before the advent of technology people routinely died somewhere around age 40 to 45. This was long enough to fulfill the biological imperative of reproduction. Once children were born and able to somewhat fend for themselves, hormonal levels decreased. And with these decreases went the protection from degenerative diseases that hormones provide. Very seldom does one hormone decline in isolation. Hormones need to be in balance for good health, and when one hormone declines the balance is thrown out of kilter. Stress is placed on the body to compensate and that stress throws the other hormones out of balance. Multiple hormone deficiencies are common in people past the age of 40.

All the diseases we take for granted as being inevitable parts of the aging process are frequently just manifestations of hormonal decline. High blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, joint pain, osteoporosis, cognitive impairment, and even allergies are symptoms of hormonal insufficiency. The current epidemic of breast cancer is primarily the result of hormonal decline as is prostate cancer. Young people with full hormonal profiles rarely get any of these diseases. They begin to occur around age 40, about the time Mother Nature's use for us is over.

All the organic fruits and vegetables, vitamins and mineral supplements, chemical free living, and exercise will not save people from hormone decline. It is built into us like a ticking time bomb. Our ancestors, who lived healthy lifestyles, grew their own food in their fields, got plenty of exercise and had never heard of the chemicals we now take for granted, still lost their hormones and died at young ages.

People now have a way to fool Mother Nature

Every living thing seems to love being part of the cosmic dance. It will do whatever it can to protect its life, but the biological imperative remains. Once reproduction is accomplished, everything's days are numbered. Except for people. Now we are able to postpone the inevitable and continue on our merry way for a few more years if we can get nature to believe we are still able to reproduce. This is the signal sent by replacement hormones.

With the advent of bioidentical hormones people separated themselves from every other living thing by their ability to prolong health and wellbeing beyond what Nature had in mind. Bioidentical hormone replacement can extend the years in which our parents are able to live happy, healthy and independent lives. And as we move through our 40's and 50's, it is bioidentical hormone replacements that will help us maintain our health and energy so that when the time comes we can provide the kind of quality care our parents deserve.

For optimal results, bioidentical hormone replacement should begin as soon as symptoms of hormonal decline are apparent. This way the body can maintain the balance needed to support all organs and functions for as long as possible. But for people who have already experienced hormonal decline, it is never too late. A body starved for hormones will respond no matter what the age of the person. Degenerative disease symptoms will regress or disappear and a better quality of life will return. Even for those experiencing the ravages of age, hormone replacement will make life better.

One of the worst symptoms of hormone decline typically found in women is the inability to sleep. Night after night, little or no sleep leads to cognitive and psychological impairment, and a miserable quality of life. Restoring hormones at any age will restore the ability to sleep. Hormone restoration helps people regain their ability to balance and walk, allowing for the freedom being mobile conveys. With restored balance comes reduction in the chance for falling and for breaking bones. In fact, the quality of bone is vastly improved by hormone replacement, as it is hormones that direct the cycle of bone construction and bone destruction so necessary for a healthy skeletal framework.

Full hormone replacement increases cellular energy, elevates mood, and restores confidence and surefootedness, allowing older people more time to live independently and care for themselves. Replacement hormones allow many older people to make it though life without having to experience the dreaded degenerative diseases like cancer and heart disease.

Bioidenticals are exact replicas of the hormones made in the body

Bioidentical hormones have the identical molecular structure as the hormones made by the human body. Under a microscope, they cannot be distinguished from hormones made in the body. They are not the hormone replacement drugs that are behind the HRT headlines proclaiming the danger of hormone replacement. Bioidentical hormones are FDA approved, and have been proven safe in thousands of studies. They require no detoxification in the liver, and have no side effects in physiological doses that replicate what the body made when it was young and healthy. Bioidenticals simply make the hormonally deprived body sigh with relief.

Parents deserve a doctor who specializes in anti-aging medicine

With the exception of progesterone, which is sold over the counter in health stores; a prescription is needed for bioidenticals bought in the Most traditional doctors who practice standard disease establishment medicine have never heard of bioidentical hormones because they get all their information about what to prescribe from drug company representatives. If they have heard of bioidenticals they will probably tell you not to use them because they are not drugs. This is slowly changing as drug companies realize there is money to be made from manufacturing bioidenticals, but it will be awhile before the average doctor has any useful knowledge about bioidenticals.

People wanting bioidenticals for their parents or themselves will be best served by finding a doctor who specializes in anti-aging medicine. Most major cities have several of these specialists who have the know-how to use bioidentical hormones to make the remaining years of parents the best they can be. Medium sized cities most likely have at least one such doctor. Anti-aging medicine is the fastest growing field of medicine. Some OB/GYN doctors have also successfully branched out into bioidentical hormone replacement. It is not always easy to find these people, since most disease establishment doctors do not make referrals to them. It may take some calling around to find them, but they are there. The book Breakthrough, contains a series of interviews conducted with top anti-aging doctors complied by Suzanne Somers. It offers a wealth of information on bioidentical hormone replacement as does Suzanne's earlier book, Ageless. Breakthough has a state by state listing of anti-aging doctors. Another way to find them is to call the compounding pharmacy in your city and ask who they recommend. Bioidentical hormones are made in compounding pharmacies and the people there will know who is highly qualified.

Bioidenticals are part of a whole health regimen

As wonderful as bioidenticals are, they cannot do it all without help. Bioidenticals provide the foundation for extended good health. On that foundation must be added top notch nutrition, appropriate exercise, and maintaining a purpose for living

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by Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
Article Reviewed by Marian Beilharz

Here is another outstanding article that explains in plain language how Bioidentical Replacement helps us as we age. Barbara Minton also touches on my favorite subject of pharmaceutical companies and their greedy approach to health care.  Lately we have seen how greed has rocked the banking industry, the automotive industry, the housing market and its ricocheting effect on each one of us.  I feel certain that the health care industry is next. I believe that it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

(NaturalNews) All the migraines, irritability, depression, sleeplessness, and weight gain are trying to tell us something. The message is that time is running out. These events are the early signs of an aging process that leads to pain, disability, drugs, degenerative disease and decline. At the end of this road is either early death or a nursing home. The key event that starts us careening down this road is hormonal decline. Once we enter hormonal decline, life is never the same again, but it doesn't have to be this way. Bioidentical hormone replacement can restore you to the person you were when you were in your prime.

Your doctor may be killing you, and he doesn’t even know it

    For nearly a century medical therapies in the have been dominated by the use of patent medicines. The goal of medical schools is to teach upcoming doctors how to prescribe them. Then later, when these doctors are practicing, using patent medications as the first-step therapy is automatic. The prescription pad is carried in their pockets where it can be easily whipped out at the end of the eight minute visit. Medical schools don’t teach therapies using molecules normally present in our bodies or in nature, although it seems like common sense that patent molecules would only be used when the natural ones have been tried and didn’t get the job done.

    Anyone seeking medical attention from a traditional physician walks away thinking drugs are the answer to everything. If the drugs don’t work, a larger dose is prescribed or the patient is blamed. There is seldom any mention of the natural alternatives. All the while this is going on, the underlying condition that prompted the visit in the first place is still there. It may be masked, but drugs cannot make it go away. After a period of time it will worsen or reappear in another form. And each patent medicine has a list of side effects to make matters worse. Pretty soon more drugs are needed to deal with them. This is the down-hill run that leads to premature death from debilitating disease.

Bioidentical are exact replicas of the hormones made in the body

    Bioidentical hormones are created in compounding pharmacies to have the identical molecular structure as the hormones made by your own body. They are completely different from the synthetic hormones used in HRT, sold by pharmaceutical companies, and implicated in breast cancer during the Women's Health Initiative Study in 2002. Bioidenticals are not perceived by the body as foreign substances and require no detoxification. They do not threaten the immune system or cause any other side effects. Bioidenticals simply make the hormonally deprived body sigh with relief. And unlike the one-size-fits-all regime of HRT, bioidentical protocols are tailored to each individual based on symptoms and test results.

    Although bioidenticals have been around for years, most doctors are completely unfamiliar with them, since they are never mentioned by drug salesmen. If you ask your doctor about them, he will probably say they are no good, just what the pharmaceutical companies want him to say. If you are interested in bioidenticals, it is pretty much up to you to educate yourself unless you come across a cutting edge physician who practices anti-aging medicine or hormone replacement.

An actress will tell you what you should be hearing from your own doctor

    In your quest for self-education about bioidenticals, you have one teacher who you can count on to tell you the truth as she knows it. Actress Suzanne Summers, a breast cancer survivor and user of bioidenticals, is a passionate educator on the subject in the books she has written. Don’t dismiss her with a laugh because of her acting stereotype as a dumb blond. Suzanne is amazingly intelligent and insightful on the subject of bioidenticals and anti-aging. She brings a wealth of experience to her writing, along with interviews of leading physicians practicing bioidentical hormone therapy. After reading what they have to say, you will probably have no more doubts about bioidenticals or the need to replace declining hormones to retain your youth.

Research supports the safety of bioidenticals

    Bioidenticals eliminate vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, osteoporosis, sleep disturbance, migraines, emotional instability, loss of brain function and loss of libido. They help you look and feel like you did when you were young and had a full complement of hormones coursing through your body. They offer the best protection there is from the horrors of aging and the onslaught of degenerative diseases experienced by those in hormonal decline. Yet, in the face of all this good news, everyone still seems to be worried about their safety, especially whether they promote breast cancer. This is because there is no campaign to make you a believer like there is to create believers for pharmaceutical products.
    In Suzanne’s latest book, Breakthrough, she interviews gynecologist Dr. Prudence Hall, founder of the and one of her own personal physicians. Prudence references a new study from that looked at 23,000 women for causes of death. Twelve major categories were identified. Women using bioidenticals had a decrease in every single category of death compared to women not using bioidenticals. Main causes of death were stroke, heart attack, breast cancer, and colon cancer. In each category there was a 12 to 86 percent decrease in terms of death.

    The Founier Study was published in 2005 in the International Journal of Cancer. It followed 54,000 women who were taking bioidentical estrogen and either bioidentical progesterone or the synthetic version called progestin. (Progestin is fake progesterone that is not bioidentical in any manner).

    The women taking the bioidential progesterone had a 10% decrease in the risk of breast cancer, and the women taking the synthetic progestin had a 40% increase in the risk of breast cancer. These are the same progestins that were taken by the women participating in the Women’s Health Initiative in 2002 that sparked an increase in breast cancer.

    In an extension of this study, published in 2007 in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 80,000 women were evaluated. Those on bioidentical estrogen and progesterone had no increase in the rate of breast cancer. Those on the drug progestin had a 69 percent increase.

    A ten year study directed by Dr. Gino Tutera, a pioneer of bioidentical pellet hormone therapy, set out to prove that although the use of conjugated estrogen combined with synthetic progestin does increase the incidence of breast cancer, it does not mean that bioidentical estrogen and progesterone, or even bioidentical estrogen alone, increase breast cancer incidence.
    His study, from 1992 to 2002, involved 976 women between the ages of 25 and 82. These women used subcutaneous bioidentical estradiol and testosterone. Some also used bioidentical (natural) progesterone cream. They were followed with yearly exams. Findings indicated that using bioidentical estradiol, testosterone and progesterone did not increase the risk of breast cancer. In fact, study results showed a reduction the incidence of breast cancer.     Nearly 96 percent of the women in the study were peri-or post menopausal, the age at which breast cancer usual strikes. Nearly 70 percent had used other forms of estrogen replacement therapy for an average of five years before switching to the pellet therapy.
    Given that the typical incidence of breast cancer is one out of nine, there should have been many women who developed breast cancer during their ten year participation in this research. However, during the course of this study, only one patient developed breast cancer. She had used conjugated estrogen with progestins for the four years before starting the bioidentical pellet therapy. These results lend tremendous support to the conclusion that bioidentical replacement keeps away breast cancer.
    The de Lignieres study from journal Climacteric that was published in 2002 found the risk of breast cancer is not increased with bioidentical hormones but is increased with synthetic progestin. Other studies have consistently shown that the higher the natural progesterone levels over the course of a woman’s life, including during pregnancy when progesterone is at its highest levels, the greater the protection from cancer.
    If this information were being made available to doctors it would eliminate the fear they have due to lack of correct information. As it is, they are kept in the dark by an industry that puts profits before the health of women and also by their own lack of insight into how they are being manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry. And if this information were made available to women through TV ads like the constant bombardment of ads for drugs, women would flock to their doctors demanding prescriptions for bioidenticals. Because this information is kept from mainstream media, ignorance continues to rule and many women are left to suffer needlessly. Doctors easily prescribe synthetic concoctions to prevent pregnancy and even to shorten or to do away with women’s periods. Yet there is still this notion of fear that persists about bioidenticals. It is almost as though there is a concerted effort to ruin the health of women.

Bioidenticals are part of a whole health regimen

    As wonderful as bioidenticals are, they can’t do it all without help. Bioidenticals provide the foundation for good health. On that foundation must be added nutrition, exercise, detoxification, stress reduction, sleep and a purpose in life. This is the total regimen that will allow you to reach and keep your ideal weight. And this is the regimen that will allow you to reach the vibrant health that has eluded you for so long.

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(NaturalNews) Common commercial skin care products may increase users' risk of contracting skin cancer, according to a paper by researchers from Rutgers University and published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Researchers had originally been planning to study whether topically applied caffeine could reduce people's risk of skin cancer.

"We sort of got into this by accident," researcher Allan Conney said. "We wanted a safe cream that we could put the caffeine into."

The test was to be carried out on albino mice, which are specially bred to be predisposed to skin cancer. In order to simulate the condition of a person who has only recently become aware of the risks of skin cancer but who got lots of sun exposure previously, the researchers bombarded the albino mice with ultraviolet radiation before the study began.

The researchers intended to apply the caffeine by dissolving it into a skin cream, but first wanted to make sure that any cream they used was actually neutral for skin cancer risk. So they applied four commercially available creams to the mice, and discovered that all of them increased the mice's risk of developing skin tumors known as squamous cell carcinoma.

Squamous cell carcinoma is more slow-growing and substantially less lethal than the less common melanoma. Most cases of squamous cell carcinoma can be easily removed without risk to the patient if they are detected and acted on early enough.

The experiment could not determine which ingredients of the skin creams might be causing cancer, but Conney suspects that mineral oil might be responsible, as might sodium laurel sulphate.

"We'd like to understand the mechanism," Conney said. "What is most important is to see whether these moisturizing creams are tumorigenic in people."

Conney said that his lab does not have the capacity to do such studies, but he hopes that other researchers will follow up on his team's findings.

Sources for this story include: uk.reuters.com.

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