Healthy women victims of HRT propaganda
Now we’ve just got the news that HRT doubles the risk of breast cancer with a report from the UK that Cancer Research estimates that HRT has caused 20,000 breast cancer cases over the past decade.
The theory of HRT as a protection against heart disease emerged in 1991 from an American study.
Unfortunately it was later found to be seriously flawed and the statistics manipulated.
Despite this, it has become the cornerstone of a well-orchestrated marketing campaign to convince healthy women that HRT could prevent heart disease.
Thus, based on an unsubstantiated theory and poorly designed studies, there is a huge push by most mainstream doctors and the drug companies to have all menopausal and postmenopausal women take HRT.
Reinforced by cultural myths of the aging woman and gross misinformation about female physiology, tens of millions of HRT prescriptions are written each year as healthy menopausal women naively believe their doctors when they’re told that HRT will protect their hearts.
What is now apparent is that this widespread use of steroid supplementation in healthy women is indeed a very dangerous and still unproven theory.
Patrick J Carroll,
Lady Lane House,
Waterford.
