Posted on 06/14/2009 6:24:07 PM PDT by greatdefender
The American Medical Association is taking on a segment of the $50 billion "anti-aging" industry that promotes the use of hormones as a treatment for consumers to slow or reverse the aging process. In a report presented Sunday in Chicago to a committee of the AMA's 543-member policymaking House of Delegates, the AMA Council on Science and Public Health calls into question claims made by for-profit Web sites, anti-aging clinics and other businesses promoting hormones as anti-aging treatments. "Despite the widespread promotion of hormones as anti-aging agents by for-profit Web sites, anti-aging clinics and compounding pharmacies, the scientific evidence to support these claims is lacking," the council said in its report. The nation's largest physicians group says it currently has no policy on anti-aging. But several specialty groups of physicians testified Sunday on the lack of scientific evidence to support anti-aging benefits. In addition, doctors worry about potential dangers of using hormones as anti-aging treatments.
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Premarin is horses urine....it’s NOT a bio-ID natural hormone....it’s probably good for horses, but not for humans.
No, but it IS the doctor’s fault if s/he responds to a patient who is expressing irrational concerns about her (or less often his) appearance, by eagerly offering to shoot the patient up with botox or collagen or surgically install synthetic tubes in the patient’s lips. And it IS the doctor’s fault if the doctor does this over and over again, with hundreds of patients, and builds his whole practice around this sort of thing, and always tells the patient how “great” the results look, even when the rest of the world is looking at these patients and thinking they look faintly monstrous.
I’m not saying patients shouldn’t be free to purchase such “treatments” or that doctors shouldn’t be free to sell them. I’m just pointing out that the AMA is more than a little hypocritical and capricious when it comes to selecting the targets of its public criticism. Fact is, the “bioidentical hormone” industry makes money for compounding pharmacists, at the expense of big pharmaceutical companies. The latter want to sell large volumes of mass-manufactured pharmaceuticals in a small choice of pre-set doses and combinations, and have doctors limited to these mass-manufactured products when prescribing or recommending pharmaceuticals.
The “science” behind giving people limited choices of say 50mg or 100mg of hormone X, is certainly no better than the science behind the custom-compounded “bioidentical” hormones. And the AMA’s claim that concern over “science” is behind its attacks on physicians and pharmacists who prescribe and provide “bioidentical” hormones is lying BS — what’s behind it is pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, which is notorious for lining the pockets of cooperative doctors and doctors’ groups.
Premarin is the same hormone found in humans, and works just as well as the human stuff. At least until fairly recently, there were also hormone products being made from the urine of post-menopausal nuns. But horse urine is cheaper and easier to collect.
Even I ate better foods (traditional Polish/Ukrainian cooking) than the kids today do. I can just imagine what the cancer rates will be by the time they reach my age with all the instant crap with more chemistry on the label than actual food their parents feed them today.
Are you a doctor? A researcher? Where’d you get that “fact?”
Time is the greatest distance between two places.
I knew a woman who was obsessed with staying young. she took massive amounts of hormones, also stuff from the health food store and rubbed hormone cream into her thighs. Anything anyone told her about she took. She developed a brain disease, I think it is something like Cruczchfelt-Jacobs disease. (I know that is spelled completely wrong) It is to humans what mad cow disease is in cows. She died a horrible death after being slowly incapacitated for several years. I always wondered if something she took to stay young brought it on.
I suppose not. Some people inherit their problems to be sure.
Just like I am developing diabetes in my old age because it runs in the family. I may be able to control it with proper diet practices for a while, but eventually I’ll turn type 1.
I’ve already progressed from being diagnosed with type 2 two years ago, but not requiring drugs, to having to go onto metformin a few weeks ago. I inherited the weak pancreas genetics from my grandfather I suppose.
But even he lived to 82 despite being a type one diabetic most of his adult life.
You are wrong there sir, it is not the same as found in humans. My body never made a single drop of horse urine.
I don’t know about the “Nun” part, but the rest of his statement is true.
He meant the synthetic hormones made from mare urine are used in human hormone replacement therapy.
it’s said to be the equivalent to the hormones produced naturally.
Aging may be "natural", but that doesn't mean it has to be inevitable. Years from now, people will look back on aging the same way we look back on other diseases for which there was once no cure but which are now easily overcome with a shot or a pill. Keep an eye on resveratrol and drugs that mimic it. See Sirtris for example. Aging's about to go the way of the dinosaur. I just wish they'd hurry before I get much older.
I know what he said and I know what he meant but he is wrong. Hormones made from horse urine are not exactly like the ones I made in my body. If they had been, my body would have accepted them, and it did not.
Those horse farms were mare urine is collected from pregnant mares are called PMU farms. It was a profitable business at one time.
Some peoples bodies are more fussy than others.
What synthetic hormones did you end up on? Or did you just give up on hormone therapy?
My wife went (still is) going through that stage, but the doc refuses to give her hormones to ease her symptoms.
No, it’s not. What’s the delivery of the “Premarin?” Pills, creams? WHAT.....how does it get into the body...through the liver? How fast does it dissipate? Does it surge, then drop? Tell me a little more.
You should get your wifey to a decent doc who will do the lab tests to test ALL her hormones...and then consider the bio-ID compounded ones JUST for her....and have her get tested regularly for the first year.
The business hasn’t gone away, it’s just become heavily regulated, animal rights groups have made things tougher etc.
As with everything the government sticks it’s nose into, regulations become too costly and profitability vanishes.
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