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• [1] chestine from NY June 28, 2007 - 10:41AM

  Please ask the doctors to discuss the work of John Lee MD - i am vehemently opposed to pharma versions of hormones and feel great on bio-identical hormones and nutrition. I am from a very medical family - conservatively interventionist OB GYN father who delivered 10,000 babies and who thought messing with hormones was going to turn out to be trouble, even in the sixties when the pill came out, and wasn't he absolutely right! (He also personally went to farmer's markets and was a big believer in good nutrition) you will never convince me to take an unnatural product hormone vs a bio-identical one.

  
  
• [2] Sarah Cohen from New York June 28, 2007 - 11:37AM

  There is a good body of research that suggests aerobic exercise and weight training can significantly increase bone density, decrease incidence of heart disease and diabetes. I wonder why we always turn to the 'easy', expensive and questionable consequence of taking hormone therapy and other medications. I believe this is a comment on our health care system, which desperately needs to focus on preventative medicine, without immediately focusing on medication.

  
  
• [3] Joyce Weiner June 28, 2007 - 11:38AM

  Yes, please ask the doctors to discuss Dr. John Lee's work. I have been using natural progesterone cream for about two years with excellent results relieving hot flashes, memory lapse (?), and mood swings.

  My doctor says it is a placebo, and that estrogen is the only hormone to relieve these symtoms.

  
  
• [4] chestine from NY June 28, 2007 - 11:45AM

  Hi Joyce _ I think there are a lot of doctors who are full of baloney and don't do the research but listen to big pharma without questioning what they are able to get past our sold-out fda. Remember we used to have the toughest fda in the world.Why does nobody talk about hormone balance? What about nutrition?

  
  
• [5] Nancy from manhattan June 29, 2007 - 10:34AM

  If I hadn't been running late for an appointment, I would've tried to call or e-mail you during this segment. It reduced me to tears. I was casually given hormone replacement medication when I was 47 years old, suffering from hot flashes. It was very effective and I continued taking it until I was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer. After going through chemotherapy, radiation & a mascetomy, I am thankfully cancer-free now (nearly 10 years later!) However, I am certain that the hormone replacement drugs were responsible for my cancer. Why did you not present this aspect of the debate along with your discussion? When you mentioned that breast cancer occurances had decreased since women had stopped taking the hormone replacement, it was sluffed off as being an insignificant. This hideous possible side-effect was never mentioned to me in advance of taking the medication. Thank goodness there's more awareness nowadays. It was a hard way to learn a lesson.

  Thank you.

  Nancy