Bio-Identical Patent

Miss February — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:37:24 -0500

One of the issues that I've been told with Bio-Identicals is that because they are plant based, they cannot be patent. No patent means no one will want to do the big scale, expensive testing that many Bio nay-sayers are calling for because there is no hope of recouping the research costs.

Instead, bio-identicals are prescribed on a one-to-one basis under the highly trained eye of a compounding pharmacist. I'm sure some compounding pharmacy's are better than others, just like some doctors are more on the ball than others. I also know that some over-the-counter bio-identicals are available. I'm still looking into these.

When it comes to women's health, the first question I've come to ask is where's the money. As soon as I figure that part of the picture out, I find it easier to understand the issues.

Yes, I'm cynical. I believe that's good for my health.

Sue Richards
My Menopause Blog

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy - On a Food Blog!

Kalyn Denny — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:29:24 -0500

Well, admittedly this is not simply a food blog. The Blog That Ate Manhattan is an extremely informative and well written blog. It disappeared for a while, when the blogger, whose name I can't remember (and she has not revealed it on the new blog), erased her template accidentally. But apparently this person, who explains herself by saying, "I practice medicine, cook, and wax prolific in New York City" was addicted to blogging like so many of us, because she came back. She has written on a number of interesting subjects besides food, but none that I thought more fitting for the Blogher readers than this four part series on hormone replacement therapy. It's a complicated subject, and I won't even try to summarize what she's written, except to say if you're a woman, especially a woman past the age of forty, read every word of it.

Part one talks about the early days of hormone replacement therapy, before the release of the study that rocked our world.

Part two talks about reactions and over-reactions to the study and options that emerged.

Part three talks about the rules this person has developed for herself to guide her work as a physician deciding whether to prescribe HRT for patients. (Read this one if you don't have time to read the whole series.)

In Part four the author expressed some opinions about bio-identical hormones (some of which may surprise you.)

Read the whole series if you have time, and then add The Blog That Ate Manhattan into your feed reader post haste! You won't be sorry you did.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny cooks, photographs, and blogs about her food at Kalyn's Kitchen, and tries not to spend too much time thinking about how hormones are improving the quality of her life.

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Bio-Identical Patent

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy - On a Food Blog!