Evamist® is an estrogen spray approved by the FDA to treat hot flashes. There are at least two good reasons to avoid it. 1) Although advertised as a low dose spray, Evamist delivers 1.53 mg of estradiol per spray, which is a very high dose. Why does Big Pharma persist in their belief that dosing [...]
Q: Thank you so much for your work. I am trying to sort out this hormone issue, and it’s not easy! I read on one site that bioidentical hormones may be either from a natural source or synthetically made, and that it’s more about the molecule being identical to the human molecule that our body [...]
Back in 2010 I warned that the progestin in Bayer’s birth control pill Yaz® was uniquely dangerous and carried an increased risk of a venous thromboembolism, which is a blood clot, usually in the legs, that travels to the lungs and can be fatal. In April 2011 the British Medical Journal published research concluding that, [...]
In this small but interesting study out of Stanford University, of 68 healthy postmenopausal women at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, it was found that those using estradiol, an FDA-approved bioidentical estrogen, did significantly better on verbal memory tests than women using Conjugated Equine Estrogens (CEE), otherwise known as Premarin or pregnant horse urine extract. [...]
A new study from Emory University published in the journal Molecular Medicine shows that high doses of progesterone inhibited the growth of neuroblastoma tumors in mice without killing healthy cells. Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops from nerve tissue, and is the most common cancer in small children. The Emory researchers are investigating whether progesterone [...]
Health Watch Q&A Q: I am a retired RN and would like more info on use of progesterone cream to normalize cycles in teens. One thing I have discovered with both my girls (teens and 20s) is the great benefit progesterone has in the latter half of the cycle to normalize cycles when they are [...]
An interesting little study from Belgium gives us more insight into the ways in which progesterone helps us sleep. It shows that women who took a 300 mg progesterone pill before bed got to sleep faster, stayed asleep better, had increased growth hormone and more stable thyroid levels. This result is in contrast to other [...]
The FDA announced a label revision for the 5-alpha reductase inhibitor (ARI) prostate and hair loss drugs, including finasteride (Proscar) and dusteride (Propecia). The revision follows the results of two large studies that looked at using these drugs for preventing prostate cancer. Both studies found that while the ARIs lowered the risk of low grade [...]
Why use pricey progesterone injections when you can use progesterone gel? Pregnant women who can’t afford to spend $25,000 on progesterone injections to prevent preterm birth now have a good study done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Columbia Laboratories showing that using progesterone gel reduced preterm birth in at risk women by [...]
The other day I was talking on the phone to a woman in her early 30s who has been trying to conceive for four years. She said her husband has been tested and is fine, and that the doctor tested her FSH and LH levels, and they were fine. She and her husband decided to [...]
