Two things especially struck me about researching my latest BusinessWeek.com column, about Big Pharma’s bullying of small pharmacies to control the market for women’s hormones:
1. Maybe it’s because I’m a man, but I never had any idea so many women benefit from so-called bioidentical hormone treatment. Sure, some of the testimonials from women to the FDA were orchestrated by Wyeth opponents, but too many are just too authentic to be canned responses; if you want to get a sense of the relief many women receive from this alternative treatment approach, click on this link and take a look through the letters for yourself.
2. Related to the previous, I’m always amazed when I do this kind of research and discover many thousands of people improving their health outside the parameters of our conventional healthcare system. I’ve seen it happen often enough that I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Maybe I’m just too much of a media junkie, getting roped in to the establishment media’s narrow view of the the healthcare world. A case in point is yesterday’s front-page Wall Street Journal article about hormone therapy for women. Not even a hint of a suggestion in this major piece that there might be another kind of hormone therapy out there.
It’s encouraging to know there is another approach to medical care available. It’s up to us to be open to the alternatives and prepared to search them out, even if we decide in the end not to use them. We owe it to ourselves.
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