Those who wait All those Big Pharma execs waiting on the edge of their seats for women to forget about the HRT disaster that happened a few years ago are in for a big disappointment. New research from the U.S. and the UK shows that since women learned the real story behind these horse-urine and alien-molecule pills not only has the number of people willing to take them dropped drastically, but so have breast and ovarian cancer rates. In the U.S., breast cancer rates fell nearly 15 percent from 2001 to 2004 -- the same time frame during which thousands of women stopped taking the HRT drugs Premarin and Prempro following study results indicating that they significantly increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. And as for the recent British study, researchers found that women who had never taken these synthetic HRT drugs were 20 percent less likely to develop ovarian cancer. So whatever Wyeth, the manufacturer of Premarin and Prempro, wants us to believe (or, more accurately, to forget) these drugs still have "health disaster" written all over them. But as Dr. Wright has said many times before, that doesn't mean you have to live with declining hormone levels and all the unpleasant symptoms that come along with them. In fact, you'll be much better off if you don't. But if you're going to boost your hormone levels, make sure you're doing it with ones that exactly mimic what your body would produce on its own. For a complete discussion of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, refer to the report "Dr. Wright's New Secrets Every Woman Needs to Know," which Nutrition & Healing readers received upon subscribing to the newsletter. (Don't worry, if you don't still have your copy, you can find it beneath the archive listing on the Nutrition & Healing website, www.wrightnewsletter.com. Just log on with the username and password listed on page 8 of your most recent issue.) Nutrition & Healing Source: "Hormones can raise breast cancer risk," ABC News (www.abcnews.com), 4/19/07 | 
