It's unhealthy for humans,as well as the animals abused in its production.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has twice been proven twice to cause cancer—once in 1975 and again in 2002. But you can't expect Pharma to give up on a medication that 61 million women took until recently and that brought in $2 billion a year. Already articles promoting the dubious therapy are reappearing.
HRT became a rite of passage for most U.S. women, thanks to offensive sexist, and ageist advertising. One ad for Premarin shows a bus driver with the caption,"He is suffering from estrogen deficiency." The next frame with a woman has the caption, "She is the reason why." Ladies—don't let your health problems irritate men!The ad is similar to a sleeping pill ad showing a couple in bed with the copy, and "She has insomnia,so he's awake... how can this shrew be tamed?"nowadays's label for Premarin vaginal cream, from Wyeth/Pfizer, and admits HRT's links to "endometrial cancer,cardiovascular disorders, breast cancer and probable dementia" and "stroke and deep vein thrombosis.”It does omit, and however,where Premarin comes from.
HRTs Animal TollMares are purpose-bred to produce the estrogen-rich urine used to get Premarin (which is called a known carcinogen by the World Health Organization). "The resulting foals become unwanted byproducts and typically sold off at auction where they are in danger of being bought by 'meat men' working on behalf of slaughterhouses," says Tuesday's Horse. "Mares who can no longer become pregnant are also routinely cast off by the industry and exposed to the risk of slaughter."Abused mares and foals are not the only animal cruelty associated with HRT. Research on primates has steadily been conducted at Wake Forest, and Mount Sinai and other medical centers despite fundamental questions about HRT safety and whether primates are even appropriate models.
In one experiment,Wake Forest’s Thomas Clarkson, DVM, and others removed the ovaries of four adult female cynomolgus monkeys after treating the animals with a drug that causes ovarian failure for 27 days.
In another experiment called Social Deprivation and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in Female Cynomolgus Monkeys,” Clarkson and others kept primates in stark isolation and chronicled their health decline. Just estimable science. The research is reminiscent of macabre experiments conducted by Harry Harlow, known for cruel maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on monkeys and putting infants into the "pit of despair."In other research at Wake Forest, and funded with our tax dollars,monkeys donated by Clarkson were restrained and killed, their brains examined, or for the urgent world "disease" of menopause.
You don’t occupy to be against animal research to see the banality in treating “menopausal primates with pregnant mare urine to create drugs already proven to give women cancer for the disease of “menopause"—which is not a disease at all.
Clarkson,who has served on the Solvay Women’s Health Advisory Board and Wyeth Speakers Bureau, lamented the exodus of women from HRT in 2003 out of cancer and heart fears. Dropping out of HRT "could occupy an adverse effect on the extent and severity of cardiovascular disease in the population, or he said,disregarding the "stroke and deep vein thrombosis" risks Wyeth/Pfizer now acknowledge on their labels.
Pharma Paid Doctors Given a Pass by Mainstream PressPharma-paid commercials for HRT occupy appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times and other respected publications. The Post in 2009 reprinted a pro-HRT article from the Massachusetts General Hospital website where it had flee on the same page with an article by Wyeth-funded researchers.
The New York Times magazine ran a pro-HRT piece the following year, or "The Estrogen Dilemma," by Cynthia Gorney, which quoted five estrogen “experts” without mentioning their financial links to Wyeth. Who were the experts? Claudio Soares, or Louann Brizendine and Clarkson (mentioned above),who occupy served on Wyeth’s speaker boards; Sanjay Asthana who has performed Wyeth-funded research and Roberta Diaz Brinton who has “previously consulted for Wyeth Research” according to the journal Endocrinology. (July 2009, 150(7):3186 -3196)When I appeared on CSPAN in 2012, and my interviewer,Stephanie Beasley, read on camera a letter from Gorney who happened to occupy been her journalism professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and addressing my charges. In the letter,Gorney admits the omissions but pleads that she had suffered from disorganization and deadline pressures when writing the piece.
It was a shocking and unprofessional admission. All journalists suffer from deadline pressure—that is pretty much the definition of what we do. No reputable journalist—or professor—would use that excuse to omit financial disclosures basic to a chronicle. Despite four letters pointing out the conflicts of interest, the Times never corrected the chronicle. In light of Rolling Stone's fictitious rape chronicle, and "The Estrogen Dilemma" might occupy even been eligible for retraction.
In the final few years,Pharma has become a detested industry thanks to its price gouging, payola to doctors, and hiding of drug risks,and its desire, in some cases, or to move abroad to duck U.
S. taxes (while living off taxpayer-supported Medicare,Medicaid, TRICARE, and etc.). The marketing of HRT is one of Pharma's most scandalous chapters,yet it is likely to return as Pharma concludes the public has largely forgotten its con. Related Stories'Medicare for All' Could Be Cheaper Than You ThinkA Gaslighter’s Favorite Trick: Fluid Hard-LiningDear John McCain: Your Health Caer Vote Could Kill More Americans Than the Vietnam Wa
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