More Evidence Against Pharmaceutical Hormone Replacement

By Jon Herring

In ETR #1657 and #1658, I told you about the efforts of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to restrict your access to safe, natural hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The drug giant was petitioning the FDA to prohibit bio-identical hormones. As you might expect, the stated reason was that these products "endanger human health."

Wyeth has never proven that statement - but it is quite clear that these increasingly popular products endanger the company's multi-billion-dollar revenues in the HRT sector. And, not surprisingly, it is Wyeth's products that appear to "endanger human health."

I've told you before about studies showing that taking synthetic hormones can raise a woman's risk of heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer. Now you can add ovarian cancer to the list. Results from the UK-sponsored Million Women Study, published in The Lancet, suggest that synthetic HRT has resulted in approximately 70 deaths per year due to ovarian cancer.

To be fair, there are some who question the results of this study, and certainly much is still to be verified. But it does seem to confirm what has already been shown: that synthetic HRT drugs come with significant potential risks. So why take the risk when a safer, natural alternative is available?

If you are considering HRT to combat symptoms of menopause, do it with bio-identical hormones. Here is what Dr. Sears recommends:

"You should get your total estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA-S tested before considering any hormone therapy. So ask your doctor for a blood test to look at your 'hormone panel.' Once you begin real bio-identical hormone therapy, you should get a hormone panel every three months until your levels are in balance."
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A Surprising Link Between Lifestyle and Work Ethics

By Suzanne Richardson

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Or so the saying goes. But too much work can do more than make you feel a little boring. It can make you tired, stressed, neglectful of your health and family, and... unethical?

In a Deloitte survey of employed adults - conducted by Harris Interactive - a whopping 91 percent agreed that having a good work-life balance makes people more likely to behave ethically on the job.

What's behind this curious connection?

Deloitte board chairwoman Sharon L. Allen suggests that someone whose time and energy is too invested in work may actually become dependent on that job. Not only is the job responsible for a regular paycheck, it becomes a source of the person's personal worth. "This makes it even harder to make a good choice when faced with an ethical dilemma if they believe it will impact their professional success," says Allen.
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It's Good to Know: A Plan to Take Away Hitler's German Citizenship

Members of a regional branch of one of Germany's main political parties, the Social Democrats, are seeking to strip Adolf Hitler of his German citizenship. Hitler, born in Austria, gave up his nationality in 1925 and became a German citizen in 1932 with the help of Nazi officials in the state of Braunschweig. Modern day Braunschweig Social Democrats, whose party was outlawed under Hitler, are hoping not only to erase the stigma of its role in the dictator's rise to power, but also to inform people about this little known detail of history.

(Source: Reuters)
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