Distinct Meanings or Not: Bioequivalent vs. Bioidentical??

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About Dr. Navar and the question of " bioidentical " hormones...

I find most of your posts quite sensible, when I have any basis for an opinion,

and I'm not sure we really have any disagreement on these questions...

I was questioning Dr. Navar's knowledge, and thus her professional credentials

ultimately, if she could say, as she did, that hormones made by compounding

pharmacists are approved by the FDA. The basic drugs they make compounded

versions of are altered in some way/not identical to the mass-produced version.

And they are, in the FDA's own statement on the subject, NOT approved by the

FDA. One reason, at least, is the FDA's sheer inability to to oversee how they

are prepared. Every compounding operation is a unique event, subject to human

error (more, presumably, than a machine-based factory, which can be inspected

and adjusted, and is subject--theoretically, at least, to quality control

procedures).

You were saying that " bioidentical " hormones are the very same in every

practical way to what the body makes. That may or may not be so, but certainly

that's what those who hype this concept claim to believe. I had found that

" bioequivalent " --which I assumed, perhaps wrongly, to be equivalent to

" bioidentical " (using the normal meanings of the words, they would be) is given

the meaning I used by Wiki...

( " Bioequivalence " ---Redirected from Bioequivalent)

" Bioequivalence is a term in pharmacokinetics...to assess the expected in vivo

biological equivalence of two proprietary preparations of a drug. If two

products are said to be bioequivalent it means that they would be expected to

be, for all intents and purposes, the same... "

So, either we have two distinct concepts, which stipulate distinct com- parisons

for a proprietary preparation---one to the human-made version, the other to

another synthesized form--or else we have two differing Wiki definitions for two

terms that are verboidentical (or verboequivalent)...

Hope you'll be joining the other moderators,

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