Review By Lynette Fleming

Have you lost any friends to breast cancer?  Worried you might be next?  Has your doctor offered to prescribe Premarin or Fosamax for the issues plaguing you before, during or after menopause … but you’re wondering about the risks?  Want to look and feel your best as you age?  Tired of traditional medicine and pharmaceuticals with their detrimental side effects and risks?  BHRT to the rescue!

Women (and men) have been searching for the fountain of youth for eons and, except for the ancient Chinese, in all the wrong places.  Have you ever heard that if you take in too many vitamins, you urinate them out?  Well, as it turns out, the secret to youth is found in the urine of our young people.  People urinate out lots of good stuff, including hormones, vitamins, minerals, and so on.  Way back in the 11^th century, medieval Chinese scientists and chemists had no way of knowing any of the individual hormones, but guessed that all of the substances that “power” the human body are found in human urine. 

Today’s scientists have found that human urine actually does contain every hormone known to be secreted by the human body, and a wide variety of minerals too.  Many of you are probably disgusted right now, but remember … since the 60s, millions of women have been taking Premarin, pills containing hormones concentrated from pregnant mare’s urine.  Which do you think would copy nature better … human urine or horse urine? 

Dr. Wright suggests that in order for modern BHRT to catch up with “comprehensive medieval Chinese BHRT,” we process human urine.  And if we do so, we could end the financial woes of many school districts and universities across the United States.  A little bit of this “recycling” would not only help millions of middle-age adults, but also our troubled educational system. 

So it wouldn’t be unreasonable to believe that in ten years (or even less) you may be touring a university or high school to view the separate (male and female) high-tech filtration and purification installations which will clean up and extract the myriad of hormones in ultra-pure concentrated form, which will then be divided by compounding pharmacists into individualized daily doses for older men and women.  Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, doesn’t it?    

Until that happens, today’s BHRT is synthesized from starting material in the Mexican yam and/or soy plants.  Although incomplete, it is much safer than medicines commonly prescribed as menopausal hormone replacement therapy.  This book offers compelling evidence not to take traditional HRT “therapeutic” drugs, like Prempro and Premarin. 

The Women’s Health Initiative found that after four years of treatment with Prempro, the women who took it had a 26% increase in invasive breast cancer.  As a bonus, Prempro increased the risk of heart disease … a 29% increase overall and an 81% increase during the first year of use.  Premarin was found to increase the risk of stroke, and Prempro doubled the risk for all types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.  I still remember the nurse practitioner who counseled me as I headed into menopause, recommending that I take HRT drugs, if not for the hot flashes, to keep my mind.  Boy, am I glad I didn’t take her advice.  My grandma kept her mind until her death at 99 ½, and never took Prempro or Premarin, and my 80-year-old mom’s mind is so sharp, a company just offered her a part-time job.    

This book explains the real science behind BHRT so we and our medical practitioners can decide if it is best for us.  The reasons for looking into it are many, including managing our hormones, extending our youthful years, cutting our risk of osteoporosis and heart disease and cancer, and even our risk of Alzheimer’s disease.  When I first heard about it, I thought its purpose was just to get through menopause, but I was wrong. 

Its benefits are much, much greater than that.  This more than 400-page book is filled with compelling reasons not to take HRT medications.  Whether you partake in BHRT should be decided by you and your health practitioner.  Reading this book will rocket boost your understanding of the controversy, politics, and the benefits of BHRT.  As it turns out, if BHRT can survive the attacks of the global pharmaceutical industry and its partner politicians, the fountain of youth in our future may very well be a fountain of urine.  

Stay Young & Sexy With Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement: The Science Explained (Smart Publications/Dec 2009) By Jonathan V. Wright and Lane Lenard

Lynette Fleming Is Coauthor of Lunch Buddies: Buddy Up for a Better Diet

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