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AlaskaAngel · 01-09-2008, 08:22 PM

This may not be the best link about this issue, but it is one:

http://www.hormoneprofile.com/Librar...rmonealert.htm

This issue originated some time ago. Women who made the personal decision to use compounded forms of progesterone for various health problems were obtaining it through pharmacists, a number of whom felt that indeed there may be at least as much genuine logic for keeping the availability for women to make that choice rather than being limited to synthetic drugs provided by pharmaceutical companies. These pharmacists went to bat for women to have that kind of choice.

While it is important to protect consumers, the question arises as to what non-synthetic, or natural (sometimes referred to as bioidentical) substances may be next to be prohibited in favor of synthetic products made for profit by pharmaceutical companies, if it is so easy to limit access in this situation?

If research to document whether or not there is actually benefit to these substances is not done (and since they are not patentable they are not profitable), are we being prevented from finding better answers for helping us to stay healthy, or at the least, less toxic (and perhaps more affordable) answers?

AlaskaAngel

01-09-2008, 08:22 PM	#3
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	Controversy This may not be the best link about this issue, but it is one: http://www.hormoneprofile.com/Librar...rmonealert.htm This issue originated some time ago. Women who made the personal decision to use compounded forms of progesterone for various health problems were obtaining it through pharmacists, a number of whom felt that indeed there may be at least as much genuine logic for keeping the availability for women to make that choice rather than being limited to synthetic drugs provided by pharmaceutical companies. These pharmacists went to bat for women to have that kind of choice. While it is important to protect consumers, the question arises as to what non-synthetic, or natural (sometimes referred to as bioidentical) substances may be next to be prohibited in favor of synthetic products made for profit by pharmaceutical companies, if it is so easy to limit access in this situation? If research to document whether or not there is actually benefit to these substances is not done (and since they are not patentable they are not profitable), are we being prevented from finding better answers for helping us to stay healthy, or at the least, less toxic (and perhaps more affordable) answers? AlaskaAngel