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Have the ladies been seduced by some tall tails?

 

It is a fact that 50% of American women will have a hysterectomy in their

lifetime. The most common reason for this drastic removal of the woman's womb,

often with the ovaries taken out simultaneously, is a diagnosis of fibroids -

benign tumours of fibrous and muscular tissue, one or more of which may have

developed in the muscular wall of the uterus.

 

The second most common reason for these hysterectomies will be a diagnosis of

endometriosis - the presence of tissue similar to the lining of the uterus found

at other sites around the pelvis, in the ovaries and Fallopian tubes. These

tissues infiltrate others, reacting to the hormone stimuli of menstruation,

causing inflammation, pain and bleeding.

 

Conclusion: 50% of women in the USA weren't made right to begin with, since

medicine believes these ladies need some drastic retooling at some point.

 

What rubbish. And dangerous rubbish too, as we'll see. Hormone Heresy author

Sherrill Sellman remarks: " Hysterectomies are [a] big industry. The Pill has

been a significant contributor to conditions that, later on, necessitate the

removal of a woman's uterus and ovaries. To date, it has been estimated that 20

million Americans have had their uteruses removed. Close to one million American

women have hysterectomies each year. Of those women, 42% will also have their

ovaries removed. It's shocking to realize that presently 1 out of 3 women in the

US will have a hysterectomy by 60 years of age… three-quarters of them performed

on women under the age of 49. Removal of the uterus as well as the ovaries will

immediately catapult a woman into " surgical menopause " , which necessitates

hormones. What's more, an oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries), medically

classified as castration, will also require more hormones. "

 

Sellman estimates the hysterectomy industry is worth $4 billion in the US alone.

Find a market. Sell the need, and keep pitching into that market. There is

little wonder, Sellman concludes, that the medical industry views women as an

unlimited resource to be plundered. " When it comes to profits, unbiased

controlled studies, long-term trials and natural alternatives are all sacrificed

for the insatiable hunger for profits, " she states.

 

The assault on womanhood begins with the drug industry promising the usual very

lucrative benefits: unlimited, safe and unbridled sex with no biological

accountability (and no apparent downside) through chemical birth control and

surgical or chemical abortion; an end to those heavy, burdensome periods with

all of their associated difficulties of stress, irregularity and mood-swings; a

removal of our fears concerning osteoporosis and the menopause. In fact, so

successful are the drug companies in talking us into this particular marketing

bonanza, that husbands and boyfriends are often the ones persuading their ladies

to get signed up for this promise of sexual freedom and social equality for the

modern woman.

 

But Dr Lynette J Dumble, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne

in Australia, is aghast: " …the sole basis of HRT is to create a commercial

market that is highly profitable for the pharmaceutical companies and doctors.

The supposed benefits of HRT are totally unproven. " She's right, of course.

 

Menopause is presented to women as a deficiency of the sex hormone estrogen - a

disease no less, requiring hormone supplementation. Dr John R Lee,

world-renowned authority on hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) and its archest

critic, explains that HRT violates that most precious of balances between the

sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, resulting in the female experiencing

estrogen dominance (unopposed estrogen). To supplement females with synthetic

estrogen to disrupt and increase the estrogen dominance further is to invite a

litany of symptoms all too depressingly familiar with women who have been down

this particular path: hot flushes, mood swings, sharpening knives in a sinister

fashion, heightened risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium (the inner

lining of the uterus), ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, anaerobic cell

respiration (depletion of oxygen in cells - a cancer precursor), disrupted

thyroid activity, breast fibrocysts, excessive blood clotting leading to

thrombo-embolisms, and decreased sex drive. Then the doctor recommends

hysterectomy. After all, if the equipment doesn't work and the warranty's

expired, take it all out and throw it away.

 

As I travel around the world doing talks, I see this problem everywhere, and

with fellas too, in the prostate department (testosterone). In Health Wars I

have a special chapter entitled, appropriately enough, Barking up the Wrong

Tree, which highlights the latest research showing how we can avoid these

problems before they start and what to do if we have them.

 

The chief causes of the male and female problem with hormones lie in diet,

lifestyle and environment. But since doctors are not trained to understand the

horrendous effects of the 21st century western diet and environment on the human

body (because fruits and vegetables don't make Porsche payments), the drug

industry has focussed its most brilliant strategists instead on securing this

most lucrative female market with their patented potions and treatments. On

offer through your local GP are synthetic hormones (cancer-causing), implants

(cancer-causing), the Pill (cancer- and thrombosis-causing), drugs (all sorts of

problems), medical tests (expensive and mostly unnecessary), mammograms

(radiation, cancer-causing), diagnostic tests (often misleading and wrong), and

then more drugs and diagnostics to combat the side-effects of the previous drugs

and surgical procedures. Tempting, isn't it?

 

Hormone drugs especially are brilliant at racking up the turnover. With Premarin

on its own grossing a little under $1 billion a year, this most widely

prescribed drug in the US in 1992 is so named because it's derived from pregnant

mare's urine. Now that's what I call marketing. To any of you ladies who tried

some of this stuff and ended up snorting and whinnying, pawing the ground and

coming in second at Kempton Park, you may be interested to know there are some

gentler alternatives that don't require you to go over all the jumps. Consider

the following:

 

Ø The number of women with fibroids or endometriosis who are relieved of pain

and heavy bleeding within three months of adopting a low-fat, high-fibre

organic, raw diet - the vast majority

Ø Percentage of American physicians who recommend dietary changes for fibroids

and endometriosis - less than 1%

Ø Most widely prescribed drug in the US in 1992 - Premarin (used as 'estrogen

replacement therapy').

Ø Primary reasons prescribed - hot flushes, osteoporosis and heart disease

(classic estrogen dominance)

Ø Percentage of women who obtained complete relief from hot flushes by taking

200mg of vitamin C and 200mg of bioflavanoids, 6 times a day - 67%

Ø Percentage of menopausal women who obtained relief from hot flushes by taking

two herbal capsules three times a day (licorice root, burdock root, wild yam

root, dong quai root and motherwort) for three months in a double-blind,

placebo-controlled study - 100%

Ø Percentage of US physicians discussing natural approaches with their

menopausal patients - 2%

 

Once again, nutritional science demonstrates the amazing success of diet and

sensible supplementation without the need for harmful surgery or drug

intervention. Of course, a doctor's opinion must always be sought, yadda, yadda,

yadda, but what do you have to lose in changing your diet, along with Vitamin C

complex supplementation (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids), a decent general

vitamin and mineral supplement and some natural progesterone cream?

 

Also essential: take toxic ingredients out of the household whose chemicals can

mimic estrogen. These can be found in personal care and household cleaning

products, as well as petroleum-based items. The most respected and largest of

the companies in this market is Neways International, which can help in

providing good quality, non-toxic and safe alternatives (www.neways.com).

 

Millions of lives are being made miserable and fearful through misdiagnosis,

ignorance of the effects of a bad diet, and a toxic home environment. Not

addressing the root causes of hormone dominance problems will set you up for

cancers later on, count on it. Better deal with it now, especially since there's

a simple alternative: change your behaviour, change your diet, change out the

toxic chemicals, indulge in some happy exercise, supplement with the right

nutrients, and then let's see what Nature's going to do for you.

 

Oh, and rein in that blind faith in the religion of medicine.

 

Hasn't there been enough horsing around already?

 

Health Wars by Phillip Day

Available through www.credence.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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