Everyday doctors and pharmaceuticl companies continue to promote the deadly practice of taking estrogen alone, not to mention thay are really talking about synthetic estrogen and not the bioidentical hormone.

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Reported June 19, 2008

Estrogen Therapy Depends on Timing

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – A new animal study on estrogen therapy finds it may help the brain, depending on the timing. Researchers found estrogen therapy may limit stroke damage if started shortly after reproductive cycles are over.

Since the Women’s Health Initiative study found long-term therapy with estrogen may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, many women have been confused over whether to take hormone therapy at menopause. Since then, researchers speculated the timing of estrogen treatment might be important for its effects.

Researchers from Texas A & M Health Science Center compared female mature rats, which were physiologically similar to women going through menopause, to older rats that no longer had reproductive cycles – resembling postmenopausal women. They removed the ovaries of all rats, gave them estrogen replacement therapy (estradiol) for three weeks then induced a stroke. The researchers studied the rats’ brains for tissue damage a week later.

Results show all the rats had sensory and motor damage. But the stroke caused much more tissue damage in the acyclic older females and estrogen treatment actually increased the volume of the brain that was damaged. In the mature adult rats, estrogen therapy seemed to reduce the area of brain damage.

“This study supports the idea that there is a narrow window of time as a woman approaches menopause and immediately afterward where estrogen therapy may provide neuroprotective benefits,” study author, Farida Sohrabji, Ph.D., Texas A & M Health Science Center, was quoted as saying.

SOURCE: The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, June 2-15, 2008

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With family history and genetics playing a role in the possibility of you contracting osteoporosis, nor a certain cause to name by physicians and scientists, it is not possible to give you guidelines that will 100% prevent you from contracting osteoporosis, however this list of guidelines has been researched and proven to be effective in increasing your chances of resisting this often debilitating disease.

The most abundant mineral found in the body is calcium, of which 99% of it is stored within the bones. Osteoporosis is a disorder of the bones in which there is decalcification of the bone. This loss of minerals from the bones makes it more fragile and prone to fractures. Thus, an osteoporotic patient’s bone fractures more easily as compared to a normal individual.

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Osteoporosis Treatment

Research suggests the bone density can be improved in older men that receive testosterone injections, thus preventing and reversing osteoporosis.

Testosterone therapy has shown to improve muscle mass and strength but the administration of the hormone remains controversial because of the potential to increase prostate cancer. (Note that there are now many studies that refute this notion. The book “The Testosterone Syndrome” also says this is not the case. This is especially true if the form of the medication is natural or bio-identical testosterone. When natural hormones are used to raise low levels, reason states there should be no problems. Other wise we’d all contract prostate cancer when the hormone is at its highest - around twenty years old!)

The team studied 13 men, 65 yo 85 years old. The trial lasted five months and the men were given the injections on a weekly basis every other month. Some of the men received a placebo instead of testosterone.

The study found the men that received the testosterone had reduced bone turnover compared to the placebo group. While the researchers are still unsure of the long term effects of treating low testosterone (note that some had mormal levels before the study) they concluded that testosterone treatment stops and reverses osteoporosis.

Which medications are most commonly used for osteoporosis treatment?

Bisphosphonates are — by far — the most common medications prescribed for osteoporosis treatment. Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva are just a few examples from this family of medications.

Hormones, such as estrogen, and some hormone-like medications approved for preventing and treating osteoporosis, such as raloxifene (Evista), also play a role in osteoporosis treatment. But fewer and fewer women are receiving these medications for osteoporosis treatment because the bisphosphonates are so effective.

Osteoporosis treatment medications.Doctors, in general, feel comfortable prescribing bisphosphonates for osteoporosis treatment. Fosamax — a commonly prescribed bisphosphonate — has been on the market for about 10 years, so there’s proven experience with safety. And bisphosphonates really don’t affect anything but the bone. Hormones, on the other hand, raise some concerns about what effects they’ll have on other parts of the body, such as the breast or circulation. With bisphosphonates, doctors have fewer concerns about side effects or medication interactions. These medications tend to be well tolerated, for the most part, by the women who take them.

Concerned about Osteoporosis and how to treat it?

The Women’s Health Initiative in 2007 conducted a study that was abruptly halted when it concluded that women taking the combination estrogen-progestin (Prempro) had an increased risk of developing several serious health problems. According to the study, over one year, 10,000 women taking estrogen plus progestin compared with a placebo might experience:

• Seven more cases of heart disease
• Eight more cases of breast cancer
• Eight more cases of stroke
• 18 more cases of blood clots

Alternative or natural therapies are now the overwhelming choice for most women. There is still a tremendous resentment expressed by doctors, but women are voting with their feet and finding new doctors that support their choice.