I posted something on the [...] thread about hormone replacement therapy that I found on wiki. I should have posted it here I guess.
[...], you said " please don't post anything on HRT from wiki".
Why is that? Is it not good info? I don't understand...
I actually just said "Please don't go to wiki for information on BHRT or any kind of hormone treatment". I said that because I know how unreliable so many non-medical sites can be. I don't want anyone to think that I don't want people to post information from other sources. There’s nothing specifically wrong with wiki. It’s just that it’s not a medical site, and the information is only as good as the person who posted it in the first place. Also, unless the information is constantly updated, it becomes out of date very quickly. I will admit that I haven’t specifically read the wiki site, because I have already done a lot of research on proper medical sites and I've put all that information on this thread (on the first post).
As more and more research is done on hormone therapy, more and more positive results are found, as well as added benefits of using it. Unfortunately a lot of people have a very biased and negative view of hormone therapy, which is not based on proper research. It is only based on what the media has reported and what other fairly dubious websites have reported (usually so they can sell their own even more dubious products).
I guess the main problem I have with wiki (after a very cursory perusal of the first couple of paragraphs) is that they are implying that bioidentical hormones are only available by being compounded and saying that there are “unfounded claims of safety and efficacy”. This is partly true, but this is only specific to
compounded hormones – not the proper bioidentical hormones.
Bioidentical hormones are available on normal prescription, from normal doctors, dispensed by normal pharmacists, are usually covered by insurance (or NHS, PBS etc), perfectly safe to use, do have proven safety, efficacy, reliability and benefits, and are FDA (or each country’s regulatory body) approved. Compounded hormones are not FDA approved and their safety and reliability can be questionable.