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Re: Naturally From: Tonya Von Brooks, CPM (nbwc@ix.netcom.com) Thu Apr 15 13:07:20 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: HRT Combo pills" Previous message: Anil Singhal, MD: "Re: HRT Combo pills" Next in thread: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Naturally" Reply: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Naturally" Well now Geff-I think orange juice taste better than Tang. Tonya Geffrey Klein wrote: > > > As for the original question, there are natural hormone > replacements that a > > compounding pharmacy can make. Tri-est can be used with natural > progesterone > > cream or oral micronized Pro. My clients do much better with > the natural > > hormones. > > That's funny--I could have sworn that horses and their hormones > *were* natural. > But it appears that you are of the view that these pregnant mares > are synthetic, > somehow. I do hope you'll explain this rather unusual opinion of > yours. > > Now, let us assume that for a moment that Wyeth synthesized premarin > in the lab. So what?? Why such an insistence on "natural". The > bottom line of pharmacology is that the hormone interacts with > receptors to affect a biologic change regardless of its source. There > seems to be a belief that a chemical, because it is manufactured in > the root of a plant rather than a lab, is somehow better. Next message: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: HRT Combo pills" Previous message: Anil Singhal, MD: "Re: HRT Combo pills" Next in thread: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Naturally" Reply: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Naturally"

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