Heart surgery does not extend lifespan (and hrt for women)

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Dr. Bent Formby, in a book called Sex, Lies, and Menopause points out

that anything that damages the inside of arteries will cause plaque to

build up. This includes stenting, the cardiac cath, and various other

wonderful "plumbing" procedures. The one where they basically drill

out the arteries to remove plaque (I forgot what it is called) doesn't

bear thinking of.

 

The rest of the book is problematic--it espouses something called the

Wiley Protocol (a wild misuse of data by a co-author), which involves

giving women extremely high levels of bioidentical hormones in a

desperate effort to avoid menopause, avoid cancer, and stay youthful.

There is a list called rhythmic living in which several women have

persuaded doctors and pharmacists to do this and are now reaping the

problems that go along with such extreme behavior (slow thyroids, more

cancer, endometrial problems, bad pms, extreme bleeding, etc.). I have

serious doubts about any kind of hormone replacement that is not

absolutely necessary, because they just do too many functions in the

body and many people (including some doctors I know) can't make the

connections to say what they will affect since they systems are so

complex.

 

Western medicine has real problems with logical connections that are

not 1:1. I have noticed when I go to the doctor, if I have more than

one main symptom, I have to carefully lay it out and time when I tell

her what or she will hear one thing (usually arthritis) and all the

rest (sore throat or drug interactions) go ignored. The reason I like

ayurveda and TCM is that they can deal with complexity.

Darla

 

On 7/14/05, Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote:

> Is Heart Surgery Worth It?

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> Physicians are questioning whether bypasses and angioplasties

> necessarily prolong patients' lives.