We need to save our natural hormones including Armour Thyroid from the FDA!

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Law and Legislation

Urgent Action Needed to Protect Your Right to Choose Bio-Identical Hormones!

F. Hotze, M.D.

January 28, 2008

Your right to use human (bio-identical) hormones and other medications prepared

by

compounding pharmacies is under attack again. Contact your U.S. Senator and

Congressman today to ensure that you keep your freedom to choose natural, human

(bio-identical) hormones and other medications prescribed by your physician and

prepared by your pharmacist.

Together we were able to stop the so-called " Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007 "

in

Congress last year. Now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), working in

concert

with Wyeth, the maker of Premarin and Prempro, is trying to eliminate your

access to

estriol, a human estrogen hormone, and other human (bio-identical) hormones.

Their

goal is to force you to use manufactured, " one-size-fits-all " counterfeit

hormone

replacement therapy, not the human (bio-identical) hormones which your physician

and

you choose. Instead, the bureaucrats at the FDA would dictate which

pharmaceutical drug

is best for you.

In a series of warning letters to compounding pharmacies nationwide, the FDA is

threatening to seize any compounded human (bio-identical) hormones that include

estriol, substituting the FDA's judgment for that of patients and doctors. By

targeting

estriol and indicating that it is planning to ban its importation, the use of

natural, human

(bio-identical hormones for women will be jeopardized because 80% of all

bio-identical

hormone therapy uses estriol.

In a Consumer Health Information flyer, the FDA says they have not approved any

drug

containing estriol so therefore the safety and effectiveness of estriol are

unknown.

Compounded preparations have never been under the jurisdiction of the FDA rather

their

use is determined by your physician based upon his clinical experience and

judgment.

The fact is women produce natural estriol in adequate amounts until they

approach

menopause when estriol and the other naturally occurring estrogens decline. This

declines leads to the symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause.

Nearly

forty drugs containing estriol have been approved in other countries, including

Switzerland, Germany and England. Even Wyeth, the manufacturer of counterfeit

hormones, produces an estriol product that is sold in Europe. Wyeth is the

pharmaceutical manufacturer that filed a complaint with the FDA in 2005

requesting that

the FDA stop compounding pharmacies from preparing human (bio-identical)

hormones.

Wyeth wants to destroy the competition from compounding pharmacies. Its profits

plummeted when its products, Premarin and Prempro, were shown to cause increased

heart attacks, blood clots and strokes in the Women's Health Initiative. Many

women

switched to human (bio-identical hormones) purchased from compounding

pharmacies.

You and your physician have the right to choose safe, effective and natural

human (bio-

identical) hormones. Do not let the bureaucrats at the FDA be used as a hammer

by

Wyeth to deny your freedom for access to natural solutions.

You need to act immediately to protect your rights!

Take Action - Contact your U.S. Senators and Congressmen by e-mail, phone and

fax

today.