Why You Shouldn't Get Hormone Replacement Therapy

In our modern society, we expect to be able to cure everything with a pill. However, pills often are worse than what they are trying to fix. When it comes to menopause, the normal treatment of the last few decades was for doctors to immediately prescribe hormone replacement therapy as a cure-all. We know now that hormone replacement therapy may not only put your long-term health at risk, put is also harvested in a very inhumane manner.

Women's Health Initiative Report

The Women's Initiative was set up as a pet project from the National Institute of Health. The Woman's Health Initiative is an ongoing American study at unearthing the causes of cancer, fractures and heart disease in post-menopausal women (women who have completed their times of having menstrual cycles). Although they have had to stop all of their research into the long-term effects of hormone replacement therapy for menopause, most of their findings were negative.

The hormone replacement therapy looked at most was a combination of estrogen and progestin and some on just estrogen replacement. No studies of human growth hormone were done. Over 10,000 women volunteered to be part of the study. It showed that women on hormone replacement therapy were at an increased risk of breast caner, heart disease, stroke and blood clots. Some doctors argue that the percentage of risk is "too small".

Straight From The Horse's WHERE?

But the major reason why you should not consider hormone replacement therapy (if your doctor approves) is that the raw materials are harvested in a cruel and unusual manner. The most popular drug of hormone replacement therapy is called Premarin. Have you ever wondered how they came up with that name? It's short for Pregnant Mare's Urine. That's right – the pills are made up of dried, pulverized pregnant mare urine powder. The mares must be pregnant in order to have the high content of estrogen required to make Premarin.

These mares live in terrible conditions similar to a battery hen's. They spend their lives being constantly artificially impregnated and having to wear a complicated urine collector as they stand in stalls too small for them to turn around in. The foals are immediately taken away and slaughtered. Usually, gentle draft breeds, especially the Belgian draft breed is used for this exploitation.

There are many alternatives to hormone replacement therapy, including herbal therapy and biofeedback. Also, not all women get very bad menopausal symptoms and need pills, anyway. Our species survived for millennia without hormone replacement therapy and we should continue to do so.