Excellent point!
In my post I'm talking about bioidentical hormone replacement, not conventional HRT. The problem with conventional HRT is that women's body does not know what to do with semisynthetic or synthetic hormones, how to get rid of them properly. The result -- byproducts, which may be linked to cancer ( I'm talking about 4 OH estrone ). In contrast bioidentical hormones are chemically identical to our own hormones and our body knows what to do with them: natural estrogen in human's body is metabolized to 2 OH estrone which is OK.
The reason why conventional HRT has this problem is because in the US it is not possible to patent the substance which occurs in nature. Therefore in order to get a drug which can be patented, drug companies have to modify the natural molecule.
I'd like to know what you think about this matter.
Should you have further questions please let me know.
Cordially,
Sergey Kalitenko, MD
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Excellent point!
October 15, 2008 - 2:00pmIn my post I'm talking about bioidentical hormone replacement, not conventional HRT. The problem with conventional HRT is that women's body does not know what to do with semisynthetic or synthetic hormones, how to get rid of them properly. The result -- byproducts, which may be linked to cancer ( I'm talking about 4 OH estrone ). In contrast bioidentical hormones are chemically identical to our own hormones and our body knows what to do with them: natural estrogen in human's body is metabolized to 2 OH estrone which is OK.
The reason why conventional HRT has this problem is because in the US it is not possible to patent the substance which occurs in nature. Therefore in order to get a drug which can be patented, drug companies have to modify the natural molecule.
I'd like to know what you think about this matter.
Should you have further questions please let me know.
Cordially,
Sergey Kalitenko, MD
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