New Book Takes Wyeth (now Pfizer) to Task for Opposition to Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement

Nov. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- In the preface to the new book explaining the science behind bio-identical hormone replacement, Dr. Jonathan V. Wright’s co-author, Lane Lenard PhD, takes direct aim at the drug company Wyeth (which was recently acquired by Pfizer) and the FDA for their hypocritical support of the drugs Premarin and Provera while they worked together to ban the bio-identical hormone estriol.   Wrote Dr. Lenard:

"Although Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has repeatedly been proven to cause unnatural and dangerous changes and reactions in the body, it remains available in every pharmacy in the country. The fact that Premarin® and Provera® are still on the market, despite their proven tendencies to cause cancer, heart disease, and other serious disorders, tells us something about the cozy relationship between Wyeth and the FDA, the federal agency that’s supposed to be regulating its products for the good of all Americans, not just Wyeth.

The irony of Wyeth’s anti-Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) campaign is that the company purports to be trying to protect women who, it claims, would be exposing themselves to BHRT’s alleged “dangers.” Yet, the only evidence Wyeth can produce about the BHRT’s alleged “dangers” is that drawn from studies of its own admittedly dangerous, patented, FDA-“approved” HRT products, which bear no relation, chemically or molecularly, to bio-identical hormones. Wyeth’s argument goes something like this: “If our ‘hormone’ products are dangerous, so must theirs be,” as though HRT and BHRT were the same products.

Conspicuously absent from Wyeth’s arguments, though, is even the slightest evidence supporting the alleged “dangers” of BHRT. Along with the FDA, Wyeth refuses to acknowledge the existence or validity of the hundreds of scientific studies that have been published over the years that support the efficacy and safety of bio-identical hormones, not to mention the dangers of conventional HRT. They’ve recently gone so far as to declare that a benign and long-accepted form of estrogen (estriol) that is produced by every human body and is essential to the proper use of BHRT should be considered an “unapproved drug” and essentially banned from use in the US (despite the fact that Wyeth has marketed estriol for years in Europe as an “ideal treatment” for menopausal women). Their hypocrisy and dishonesty takes the breath away."

Dr. Wright and Lenard’s  new book has already received tremendous praise from both mainstream and alternative medical practitioners.  Additionally, actress and author Suzanne Somers, herself a champion of bio-identicial hormone replacement, wrote the foreword to the book.

Stay Young and Sexy with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement – The Science Explained is available for purchase at http://www.stayyoungandsexy.com.  

About Lane Lenard, PhD:

Lane Lenard, PhD, has been a medical/science writer and editor for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been Articles Editor of Science Digest Magazine, Managing Editor of Sexual Medicine Today Magazine, and editor of several newsletters devoted to nutritional supplements and other health-related topics. Prior to becoming a writer, he earned a doctorate in neuropsycho-pharmacology from Rutgers University and worked for several years as a laboratory researcher for a major pharmaceutical company. He has authored several books and booklets including Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You in 2001 (M. Evans, New York, NY) and Maximize Your Vitality and Potency in 1998 (Smart Publications, Petaluma, CA, co-authored with Dr. Jonathan V. Wright. He lives with his family on 3 beautiful wooded New Jersey acres that used to belong to the Don of one New York’s Five Mafia Families.

About Dr. Jonathan Wright:
Dr. Jonathan Wright is the Medical Director of Tahoma Clinic in Renton, Washington where he also practices medicine. A Harvard University (A.B. 1965) and University of Michigan graduate (M.D. 1969), Dr. Wright has taught natural biochemical medical treatments since 1983 to thousands of physicians in the USA, Europe, and Japan. In 1982, Dr. Wright personally developed the use of bio-identical estrogens in daily medical practice, and was the first to use DHEA in private practice. He originated successful natural treatment for elimination of childhood asthma and D-mannose treatment for E. coli urinary tract infection, and discovered cobalt’s effect on estrogen detoxification.

In 1973, Dr. Wright founded Tahoma Clinic, which focuses on disease prevention and treatment by natural biochemical means. Tahoma Clinic is staffed with medical doctors, naturopathic physicians, nutritionists, allergists, nurses and administrative personnel committed to the vision of providing patients with the best holistic medical care. The infamous 1992 FDA Tahoma Clinic “raid” (“The Great B-Vitamin Bust”) was a major impetus for Congressional reform of vitamin/mineral regulation. Dr. Wright continues to be an advocate for patient freedom of choice in healthcare.

Dr. Wright is internationally known for his books and medical articles. He has authored/co-authored 11 books, selling over 1.1 million copies, with two texts achieving best selling status: Book of Nutritional Therapy and Guide to Healing with Nutrition.

Dr. Wright authors Nutrition and Healing, a monthly newsletter emphasizing nutritional medicine in medical practice that reaches over 90,000 in the USA, and another 20,000 or more worldwide.

Along with Alan Gaby, M.D., Dr. Wright routinely presents the comprehensive and scientifically documented “Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice” seminar which has helped numerous health professionals gain insight into nutritional approaches for disease. Dr. Wright speaks nationwide at various medical association conferences on varied topics including nutritional medicine, natural hormone replacement therapies for men and women, the natural treatment of cardiovascular diseases, asthma, diabetes, D-mannose for bladder infection, Vitamin D usage and laboratory testing, clinical uses of nutrient elements, and many other subjects.

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