Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer

Researchers are once again pointing to strong evidence that the use of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, to treat the symptoms of menopause may cause breast cancer. They reported that risk of breast cancer increased upon beginning use of the therapy and fell when women stopped taking the pills. At the highest risk point, women who were using the therapy had twice the breast cancer risk of a matched group of women who were not.

With this strong evidence in hand, the researchers concluded that women should be encouraged to use HRT “only if needed for menopausal symptoms, and for the shortest time possible.”

Even women who took HRT for short periods were shown to have heightened breast cancer risk. Why, then, are these researchers and the federal government and doctors all over the US still pushing these pills at all?

Sure, there are discomforts associated with hormonal changes. Menstrual cramps can be debilitating too, but I doubt that anyone would advise their teenage daughters to take pills that might cause cancer in order to alleviate their pain.

Women should educate themselves about menopause and ways to relieve associated discomforts without taking pills that could lead to life-threatening disease. There are natural approaches that may be useful — for example, plant-based estrogens and supplements such as Menozac.

Menozac is a botanical alternative medicine formulation which contains a blend of all natural herbal extracts developed to ease the transition and provide effective Menopause Symptoms Relief from the onset and duration of typical menopausal symptoms. Menozac has been developed as a natural alternative support product, formulated with the best-known combination of high-potency phytoestrogen botanicals which have a long empirical history of relieving menopausal symptoms, and supporting the body’s hormonal balance.

In general, physicians and other health authorities are hesitant to recommend herbal pills, saying they’re unproven and might entail health risks of their own. Of course, there’s little incentive to spend millions of dollars to research these cheap and widely available alternatives – they offer no potential profits for pharmaceutical companies.

Women who are interested in pursuing alternative routes to relieving their menopausal discomforts should learn for themselves how diet, exercise and other lifestyle choices may help. They might also want to consult an alternative health practitioner about acupuncture treatments, herbal supplements or other natural therapies.

It’s time to stop relying on the advice of mainstream medical professionals and government officials who cannot seem to divorce themselves from the interests of the big pharmas.

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