Guest guest Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 Interview with Dr John Lee: So what does John Lee think about the situation in Australasia where progesterone is now only available via a doctor's prescription pad? 'It shows that government regulators are easily influenced by the pharmaceutical companies. Natural progesterone has been available for 40 years or more, there is no reason why this situation should exist. At the same time as they make progesterone a prescription-only medicine they are allowing all kinds of pharma-dangerous products to be sold over the counter. The Australasians have such a profile as people who take self responsibility in their lives, I can't believe that they are going to buckle under this crazy situation. Why does he think this situation has arisen? 'Because oestrogen prescriptions make a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies. Oestrogen is being prescribed for women who don't need it - they are even giving it to women who are still having their period! If you've got enough oestrogen to have a period, then you've got more than enough oestrogen for everything else that your body needs. By doing this they are allowing women to get breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, fibrocystic breasts, gall bladder disease, thyroid problems ... it is killing people off with strokes and heart attacks'. How complicit does this make our government health authorities? 'I think women should have the right to read about and become educated about hormone imbalance. I don't have a stand about whether they should be able to access progesterone over the counter or by prescription, but I do know that the Australasian system is a ruse; it's a way of preventing women from getting access to progesterone. They pass a law that progesterone is prescription only and then pharmaceutical reps tell doctors not to prescribe it. It's a way that oestrogen can maintain its monopoly in the hormone business. It's a very misleading ruse. Any doctor who wants to look up the references regarding progesterone can do so if they want to. I have many doctors who call me about their wife, their mother, their mother-in-law. They tell me they aren't doing well on oestrogen and ask how they prescribe this progesterone stuff, yet they still will not use progesterone in their practice because they are scared of what their colleagues might think of them. I'm not saying progesterone will cure everything, but it is one of the major factors being overlooked in medicine today. Lee says he gets calls from doctors all over the world. The calls from doctors are one of two kinds. One is where they describe a patient's symptoms to me and think I might be able to help them. The other type is 'My God, I read your book and it makes sense. I realise everything you said makes sense and I tried it in my practice and it's amazing. I don't know how I practiced medicine for 30 years without understanding this'. Does Lee get shocked about how brainwashed doctors have become over the use of synthetic hormones? 'It's a matter of fact that when you've been running a practice long enough you know a lot of the things they taught you at medical school turn out to be not true. The half life of what they taught at medical school used to be 10 or 15 years - the half life being the time it took them to realise that half of what they taught you has now found out to be wrong! That half life is now seven and a half years. Recently the dean of the medical school says they know they got half the things wrong .... but they don't know which half!! So it's kind of become a standing joke, every doctor is comfortable with the fact that everything taught at medical school is not quite right and learn to correct themselves. But what happens now is that a good looking rep comes in from the pharmaceutical company to tell them about the next new thing, the supply comes in and they hand it out like pop corn. All they have heard about the drug is some advertising literature. But in this case the nice lady from the pharmaceutical company says you can't believe those things that Dr Lee is saying and that if progesterone was such a good product then they would have some themselves. But companies can't patent it and make money, so they don't like it and they don't want it to succeed'. Has Lee come across any dangers, any side effects that have come to light with nature identical progesterone cream? 'There are shysters out there who produce ground up wild yam and sell it as progesterone. And there are shysters who make very high dose progesterone creams. They believe that if a bit of progesterone does you good, then even more will be better, but that's not true. If there is a central observation Lee has from his years working in progesterone, it is this: the power comes from the women themselves. Women are responsible for spreading the information about progesterone. Women catch on as soon as they read or hear about progesterone from other women. They know very well what their doctor is doing is not the right thing'. http://www.johnleemd.com/ ==^=============================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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