And there is zero money in natural/body identical hormones because they are not patent-able drugs which can make big pharma loads of money - so there is no incentive for the research ever to be carried out. Who wants to wait for a bus which never comes, in the pouring rain?
And yes, it must be devastating for the women who developed health problems as a result of unbalanced hormones - but it is equally devastating for the billions of women who fail to receive high enough doses of estrogen on the NHS to adequately treat their symptoms. If I were on the NHS and didn't have access to the Newson Clinic, I would be shaking through the night, all night, jerking awake every time I begin to fall asleep and have my heart racing hard and fast all night.
No one would care about that, though - because it would be due to a withholding of care/medication, rather than through the application of medication. No heads would roll. Because we can't blame doctors for all the suffering which results because they are NOT prescribing something, can we? We can only find the minority of people who have suffered because they HAVE been prescribed something and then target those doctors.
'Do no harm' applies to refusing to prescribe and not just to prescribing. And there are so many women being HARMED through inadequate estradiol levels. Women who think they are fully protected against osteoporosis and then fall and fracture their pelvis and realise their estrogen levels are tiny. Women with cardiovascular disease and dementia, who wouldn't have these diseases if they had been able to absorb enough HRT from the max licensed dose - which they thought was protecting them.
So much harm being done, every day... from doctors who under-medicate, under-prescribe and under-treat. Far more than the very very few women they could rustle up who've been (arguably) over-treated.
Where's the TV programme about that, then?
