Why don OB/GYN physicians and Family Physicians prescribe natural Hormones?
Ob/Gyn specialists and primary care providers have been propagandized by the pharmaceutical industry to believe that synthetic is better than the natural hormones that you were born with. The pharmaceutical companies cannot make any money off these natural hormones because they cannot be patented. The first thing a pharmaceutical researcher will do when confronted with a new natural substance that has medical benefits is to try to make a variation of the molecular structure that can then qualify for a patent. They will then claim that this synthetic derivative of the natural substance is somehow better than the parent substance. Then they spend millions promoting it to the medical profession, providing individual instruction in it’s use, free samples, video and audio tapes, and more. Some really hot drugs are promoted by all expense paid trips to seminars in their use, usually held in places like Hawaii. Conversely, the natural hormone is frequently not even available, except perhaps a
