Dr. Jonathan Wright’s Plea to Menopausal Women: Don’t Let Your Doctor Give You Horse Urine!

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 04, 2009 -
If your doctor has recommended estrogen replacement and wants to give you a prescription for Premarin®, be very wary says bio-identical hormone expert Dr. Jonathan Wright.

In his new book, Stay Young & Sexy with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, Dr. Wright goes into great detail regarding the development and dangers of Premarin® and explains how this “horse urine pill” first got its name. Writes Dr. Wright:

The “estrogen replacement” most doctors have been prescribing for decades is a formerly patented medicine known generically as conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs). The best known brand of CEEs is Premarin®, which has been available since 1942, but only widely marketed since the 1960s.

So what’s the matter with conjugated equine estrogens? Take a close look at the name. Notice the word “equine?” Yes, that equine! Premarin® is a form of horse estrogens. In fact, it is derived from pregnant mare’s urine, hence the brand name.

Continues Dr. Wright:

Is it any wonder, then, why so many women feel “unnatural” on Premarin® and why Premarin® causes so many unpleasant side effects and discomforts, many of which are a direct result of estrogen overload? Should it come as any surprise that Premarin® use at the recommended doses (especially in combination with the dangerous progesterone-imposter drug Provera®) has been associated with a significantly increased risk of breast and endometrial cancer – in women, but not in horses?

The patent medicine industry, which has been making billions of dollars selling horse estrogens to women for more than 40 years, has tried to rationalize away the risks and discomforts their products cause by arguing that “estrogen replacement” with Premarin® also cuts the risks of heart disease, strokes, osteoporosis, and perhaps even senility and Alzheimer’s disease that often follow menopause: a potentially powerful argument, if only it were true. Unfortunately, the vast majority of unbiased scientific evidence, “topped off” by the devastating WHI report in 2002, tells a very different story.

Yet, despite all the well-known shortcomings of Premarin®, purveyors of patent medicine, even in the light of recent findings, remain more than willing to prescribe it without ever asking a ridiculously obvious question: Why use alien species horse hormones in human females? If we have the choice – which we do – wouldn’t user-friendly human estrogens make a lot more “horse sense?”

Clearly Dr. Wright, along with co-author Lane Lenard PhD, makes a powerful, science-based argument against the use of horse urine-based estrogen replacement products like Premarin® and suggests women considering this path instead consider bio-identical hormone replacement, which utilizes human hormones instead of horse hormones.

Stay Young & Sexy with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement is available at http://www.stayyoungandsexy.com.  All book purchasers will receive a voucher for a free sex-enhancing herbal supplement product from a respected dietary supplement company.


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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