Dr. Navar either ignorant or dishonest

[Guest guest]

This Dr. Navar (and what is his/her doctorate in, and from what institution,

pray tell?--not that I'm saying practitioners from even the most prestigious med

schools are acceptably competent on many issues, let alone honest and ethical)

claims:

" ....Bioidentical hormones are FDA approved...All hormones [!!!!] available at

the compounding pharmacist are FDA approved. They require a doctor’s

prescription with instructions to the pharmacist as to the form of the

medication, dosage and how it is to be used.

>

For a manufacturer to produce and advertise a medication, they must

first prove to the FDA that each particular dosage form, strength and

use will perform according to their advertising, be safe and effective. This

costs the manufacturer a huge amount of money... "

>

My internist started gave me a couple of monthly injections of testosterone

supplementation a couple of years ago. I opted out as soon as I found my PSA was

unacceptably high (can't believe he was out to lunch on that one). But was also

concerned that, with shots (compared with daily gel applications), the dose

starts out high, and then goes down over the course of the month). More to the

point here, I found that this medication came from a local compounding

pharmacist, who had prepared it according to his or her best lights; and

apparently had a contract with the med practice, or at least sold it when they

ordered...

But my research on compounding pharmacies revealed that they are NOT

inspected--how could they be??--by the FDA (which doesn't even do a decent job

of inspecting drug factories!!) The compounder could be careless, have a

drinking or drug problem, or any number of other things that could interfere

with careful and effective preparation and dispensing of the product. And the

medical practice is hardly in a position to judge the results. If the stuff

doesn't work, they'd likely figure the patient just wasn't responding...

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> From: hypothyroidism <hypothyroidism >

> Subject: Digest Number 4272

> hypothyroidism

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[Guest guest]

I don't know anything about Dr. Navar except what I saw on the post

quoted. I was searching for a confirmation of statements I've heard

before that T4 and T3 are in fact bioidentical. I found the info on Dr.

Navar's site. As she seems to specialize in treatments involving

bioidentical hormones and such I felt she should be familiar with the

subject.

You seem to have gotten a completely different slant on her article than

I did. I did not find any ignorant or dishonest statements in the

portions I scanned. If you're interested in where she got her medical

degree and did her post op then I'd suggest you ask her.

My _only_ purpose was to find confirmation that T4 and T3 are all

bioidentical. That's what I accomplished. This was a response to the

posts we keep seeing here within which T4 is called " poison " of " fakey " .

In fact they are IDENTICAL to the T4 made by a healthy human thyroid gland.

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> Posted by: " brian cooper " brianevans_99@...

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> brianevans_99 <brianevans_99>

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> Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:01 am (PST)

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> This Dr. Navar (and what is his/her doctorate in, and from what

> institution, pray tell?--not that I'm saying practitioners from even

> the most prestigious med schools are acceptably competent on many

> issues, let alone honest and ethical) claims:

>

> " ....Bioidentical hormones are FDA approved...All hormones [!!!!]

> available at the compounding pharmacist are FDA approved. They require

> a doctor’s prescription with instructions to the pharmacist as to the

> form of the medication, dosage and how it is to be used.

> >

> For a manufacturer to produce and advertise a medication, they must

> first prove to the FDA that each particular dosage form, strength and

> use will perform according to their advertising, be safe and

> effective. This costs the manufacturer a huge amount of money... "

> >

> My internist started gave me a couple of monthly injections of

> testosterone supplementation a couple of years ago. I opted out as

> soon as I found my PSA was unacceptably high (can't believe he was out

> to lunch on that one). But was also concerned that, with shots

> (compared with daily gel applications)

> , the dose starts out high, and then goes down over the course of the

> month). More to the point here, I found that this medication came from

> a local compounding pharmacist, who had prepared it according to his

> or her best lights; and apparently had a contract with the med

> practice, or at least sold it when they ordered...

>

> But my research on compounding pharmacies revealed that they are NOT

> inspected--how could they be??--by the FDA (which doesn't even do a

> decent job of inspecting drug factories!!) The compounder could be

> careless, have a drinking or drug problem, or any number of other

> things that could interfere with careful and effective preparation and

> dispensing of the product. And the medical practice is hardly in a

> position to judge the results. If the stuff doesn't work, they'd

> likely figure the patient just wasn't responding...

>

>