osteoblast

Anyone on HRT or thinking about HRT should look at the news today. While I went through menopause without HRT because of the studies coming out around 2000. I have always wondered about that decision especially with my osteoporosis. It is not a decision that I will question any longer.

I hope that you folks will do a news search on the test results that have come out in the past 24 hours. A study of one million women in the UK has determined that women on HRT for 5 years were 23% more likely to die of ovarian cancer. Recent figures in US show continuing drop in breast cancer- researchers tie the drop to decline in use of HRT following news that came out in 2000 linking HRT to breast cancer. The drug co. Wyeth that makes HRT has a different view of the results. Well, read the articles and see what makes sense to you.

This makes me completely understand the "I refuse to take osteo meds" line of thought in the previous thread. I am not endorsing it -everybody has a different situation and needs to make their own decision. How can we trust the drug companies or for that matter the FDA . In one of the articles I read it was speculated that there was inadequate research of HRT from the beginning.

These are very dificult times, we have poisoned the environment and our bodies have been polluted as well. How could this not be the case? I read a recent article, I believe it was in Scientific American, which noted that mother's breast milk is one of the most polluted substances. Also it noted that breast feeding women have lower risks of cancer because some of their toxins-esp. dioxin are off loaded to their babies. The babies get more than their lifetime safe dose of dioxin within the first six months. The article also discussed the carcinogens found in fish especially estrogenic chemicals finding their way into the water. In any event this dose of estrogen is screwing up the fish- the males are found with birth sacs and eggs. The researchers took caught fish from rivers in Pa. as well as fish from a grocery store and took their skin and fat off which is where the toxins are stored. Then the researchers placed this substance on cancerous tissue and found that the substance from the fish accelerated the cancer growth. I'll look for the article again but the title was something like -bringing cancer to the dinner table. Please do your own research and verify. I am not an expert on this topic and you should check it for yourself.

I am sorry for the length of this message. Yet, I was not previously aware of this information and I am stunned by it. It's possible to be out of the loop on alot of this stuff- we lead busy lives and there is only so much we can take in.