How come more doctors aren prescribing bio-identical hormones?
Most doctors are not aware of how hormones change with aging or how hormones can improve and even prevent many diseases of aging. Bio-identical hormone therapy is a relatively new treatment in the United States. It has been studied extensively and used in Europe for at least thirty years. By contrast, American physicians have only been learning how to use them for the past ten to fifteen years. This lag is most likely due to that fact that American medicine is focused on how to treat diseases with drugs while European medicine is more preventative. The evidence is clear that pharmaceutical companies completely influence the way most American physicians treat patients. The first U.S. prescribed estrogen, Premarin®, became available back in the 1950’s. Premarin® comes from pregnant horses’ urine and contains over 13 different types of horse estrogens. Women biologically make only three types of estrogen. With the lack of anything better, Premarin® was acceptable at the time. As technolog
