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Most of America’s Medical Practices are governed by the all powerful Drug Companies; they fund our Med Schools and in turn our doctors are taught to use their “monster drugs”.

What do I mean by monster drug??? Instead of giving you the Natural, Bio-identical compound that your body normally makes and uses, these Drug Companies take the natural compound and combine it with another compound (or side chain) to end up with their "drug".

When you take this drug, your body must first cleave off the added side chain before it can be used.

In reality, the Drug Company could much more easily and simply, give you the natural substance; so you must be curious as to why they would make this monster??? The answer is Money; you see any company can make and sell Bio-identical compounds and they can sell them very cheaply, actually for pennies. On the other hand, the monster drug is patented, only the company holding the patent can make and sell it, and of course since it is theirs and only theirs, they can charge hundreds of dollars or whatever they want, for the patented drug.

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I took this quote off the internet because it hit home for me so well.

"Many societies the world over have treated chronic disease with "band-aids" of prescribed pills for various symptoms. No one ever even looked for underlying causes of our pains.

Ten minutes with a doctor, usually led to an unpredictable number of prescriptions. We tried to control our symptoms; however we never looked at the origins of our suffering".

To recap, monster drugs cost hundreds of dollars instead of pennies and your body probably can’t use them as efficiently. For years after graduating Med School I thought the drug manufacturers simply couldn’t make progesterone and that’s why we used that other stuff, silly me, it's all about Money!!!

Are you getting the picture? Drug manufacturers make billions, treating the symptoms, not curing the disease; they don’t want us to be cured. Why would they want to stop selling us expensive sleeping pills, antidepressants, or pain killers???

Prozac artificially increases serotonin, but the drug has side effects and is toxic. You are much better off boosting your production of serotonin with proper amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and herbs, treatment that has been used successfully for thousands of years, but that might cure you and we couldn't sell you Prozac.

The Amino Acids, Serine, L-theanine and Melatonin are nicknamed “Natures Xanax”. They will help you get a much healthier, rejuvenating night’s sleep, complete with dreams, than any drug will. Growth hormone is essential to our general well being and hormonal balance, but did you know that after age 20 or so, growth hormone is only made in our bodies during REM sleep. In my opinion, sleeping pills probably shut down your REM completely.

Do yourself a favor, take an amino acid(serine) and go to bed a little earlier tonight.

At Doctors Best Wellness Center any hormonal treatment is Bio-identical, we test, measure and only if there is a deficiency we consider replacement. In my office, patients are prescribed only natural bio-identical hormones instead of some drug that may, “kind of”, act like a hormone after your body metabolizes it. Why take a very expensive monster drug with all its side effects when what you need is safe, natural progesterone.

By the way,the science is clear on estrogen; it’s the metabolites or breakdown products of the oral Brand Name Monster Estrogens that cause the associated cancers. Estrogen should NEVER be given oral, and almost never needs to be given at all.

After menopause, even surgical menopause, a woman’s estrogen level only drops around 10-30% or so however, estrogens are heavily prescribed for hot flashes (menopause) by most gynecologists. Most doctors believe that these vasovagal symptoms are caused by a marked deficiency in estrogen, however this is usually not the problem as we well know now. In fact only progesterone is what is needed, in 99 out of 100 patients, and it's given to balance estrogen; we rarely give estrogen in our practice, and when we do, it's given in a cream through the skin, never oral.

At Doctors Best Wellness Center we promote helping you naturally to optimize

your sleep, mood, and well being. Get yourself healthy and weightloss becomes much easier.

The Horrors of Premarin shocking stuff, please take a minute to read, vm

DocVal’s notes on Pharmaceutical Hormones

Gynecologists generally give synthetic estrogens and progestins (Provera / Premarin) to their patients to treat menopausal symptoms and menstrual irregularities; these monster drugs are extremely dangerous. We shouldn’t fault the doctor; that’s how they were trained; however we can fault the Drug manufacturers. They do know better and actually have been sweeping the facts under the rug for many decades.

It has become quite clear to the more informed Doctors that these symptomatic women rarely need estrogen at all and certainly not in the massive overdose even the “low dose” pill delivers.

Estrogen only drops 10-30% in post menopausal women, even less in American Women because fat cells make estrogen.

Progesterone on the other hand does drop considerably and it is the resulting imbalance between the relatively normal estrogen level and the lowering progesterone that causes the dreaded female problems...

Pharmaceutical Estrogens when taken orally cause thrombosis, stroke and breast cancer; bio-identical estrogens do not. Bio-identical estrogen is absorbed through the skin and enters the blood “naturally”, similar to the way our natural estrogens are released into the blood from the ovary. There is nothing natural about the patented drugs; in fact they are so unnatural they can be patented. Any substance that is normally found in the body cannot be patented.

It’s all about balance; balance between estrogen, progesterone and the other hormones. We test, measure what is lacking, and gently but naturally, replace what is missing with the identical substance your body normally would make if it weren’t weakened from years of stress.

The truth about Premarin;

Wyeth in 1930’s experimented with human and horse urine estrogens, but horse derived Estrogen was more potent, cheaper, and tasted better therefore horse urine estrogen is what us humans animals have been taking all this time. Human derived estrogen at least would have been bio-identical but it was too expensive and bad tasting.

In 1942 Premarin was approved in the US, Even thought published studies warned about its carcinogenic potential

In 1959 a JAMA study proved it effective with no increase in cancer in the 113 patient studies... This study of a whopping 113 patients -Gave Premarin the green light for next 40 years.

In 1966 the Book published, “Feminine Forever” touts estrogen as the “cure for the tragedy of menopause.” The Drug Company pays Robert Wilson 1 million dollars for the book and the glowing endorsement. (In the 1960’s not one baseball player made 1 million dollars) Numerous ads in the 1970’s encouraged patients to take it forever with no risk.

In 1973 the marketing machine decided since it made women feel so good they would study giving it to men; but they had to stop trials because so many men were dying of heart attack and blood clots. (Just like the women did 30 years later when proper studies were done)

In the 1973 Harpers Bazaar article HR “keeps you flirtatiously feminine- a package deal that spruces up your vagina” and the world was hooked. Everyone was doing it, not my mom.

In 1975 NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) published articles documenting a 14 fold increase in endometrial cancer.

In 1976 a NEJM article linked Hormone Replacement to breast cancer. (This is Pharmaceutical not Bio-identical)

In the late 70’s, Provera added a fake progestin to Premarin attempting to lower the possibility of endometrial cancer.

Prempro came out in 95 -both were in one pill.

In 1985 the Framingham Heart Study documented increased negative Cardio Vascular events

In 1989 a Swedish study showed double the risk of breast cancer.

In 1998 the PEPI trial showed HRT does not prevent MI, as was advertized and an increased risk of 2nd MI was noted in patients.

In 2000 the WHI (Woman’s Health Initiative) was running –scientists gave women an out; the doctors running the study gave participants a chance to drop out of the study because they noted a marked increase in Heart Attack rate.

Still sales approach $2 billion with Lauren Hutton as spokes person.

In 2002 the WHI published the results showing,

a 26% increase in Breast Cancer

a 29% increase in Heart Attack

a 41% increase in Stroke

a 200% increase in all Blood Clots

No improvement in overall quality of life

Increased risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia

Without Prempro on the market, annually we would save

8,000 cases breast cancer,

7,000 Cardiac Events,

8,000 Pulmonary Emboli

Some studies indicate that the duration of exposure is more a factor than dose in producing the adverse events.

The Million Women Study done in the UK showed-

The (RR) Relative Risk of 1.3 for Breast Cancer in women who ever used Pharmaceutical Estrogen replacement.

The RR of 2.0 (even higher) for Breast Cancer if a woman ever used Pharmaceutical Estrogen plus a Progestogen.

Again the risk increased with the duration of use.

In 2003 the company acknowledged the health hazards associated with their Drugs and Wyeth then pushed the use of “low dose” Prempro;

They claimed “Prescribe with Confidence”, however no studies were done and no proof was given of any added safety; they gave the illusion that “low dose” was safer;

Please listen to me, the facts are, the low dose pills are still a gross overdose of an unsafe substance. They may work on your symptoms but so do the natural bio-identical replacement therapies the more informed doctors use...

Val Manocchio MD

American Physicians Wellness Center

Doctors Best Weight Loss Center

(954) 252-5454 / fax (954) 252-5415

the Horrors of Premarin - see below