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AUTISM SERVICE DOG BIOIDENTICAL HORMONES through “the change” (that is, the seven
I am grateful for the education I Let’s not throw out the baby years of perimenopause and after) with
have gotten from the Weston A. Price with the bath water! Kim Schuette’s only minor discomfort. They may
Foundation. I highly value information article “Recovery from Bioidentical have the occasional broken sleep or
that helps us be healthier and more Hormones” (Winter 2017) has some hot flash but their life is able to stay on
connected to our food and our bodies. important information in it. However, course. For some women, herbs provide
My family lives in central Virginia it also has some misinformation that the adequate help and support for the peri-
with our two young children, ages four readers deserve to have corrected. After menopausal period.
and eight. Our eight-year-old is on the twenty years of working with women However, there are some women
autism spectrum and has suffered from and men using bioidentical hormones, I whose perimenopausal symptoms are
many digestive issues. Just two years life-disrupting. Their problems aren’t
ago, our child could not eat eggs, resolved with good diet, adequate
nuts, seeds or many fruits. We made fats, homeopathy or herbs. For these
drastic changes to her diet with the women, bioidentical hormones can
help of information from WAPF and be helpful.
are very happy to announce that our Schuette’s statement: “A hor-
eight-year-old now is eating all of mone packaged at a compounding
those foods and more. I attribute pharmacy is in reality no different
much of our success to bone broth than those formulas obtained from
alone—we started almost every a mainstream pharmacy” fails to
meal with it and always gave it to make the key distinction between
her before reintroducing foods. Now compounded bioidentical hormones
that her gut is on its way to recovery, and pharmaceuticals. Bioidentical
we have a new goal: to bring home a hormones contain only the estro-
service dog to help ease our child’s gens (estradiol, estrone, estriol) and
severe social anxiety, increase her have learned a lot about what is helpful progesterone that women make them-
confidence and reduce overall stress. and healthful and what is not. selves. They are synthesized, yes, but
ECAD, the non-profit organization that Hormone replacement therapy they are identical molecularly—just as
is training a service dog for our child, (HRT) for menopause has gotten a Synthroid and Levoxyl are synthesized
asks that each family raise twenty-five bad reputation. Much of the blame can identical molecules of thyroxine (T4),
thousand dollars to cover the cost of be laid on the doctors who prescribed the thyroid hormone our thyroid makes.
breeding and training. Our fundrais- HRT for years without ever checking a The real bad actor in the Women’s
ing is underway, and we would be so woman’s hormone levels―either before Health Initiative study was the com-
grateful to have support from Weston or during treatment. This cavalier atti- bination of Premarin (a hormone
A. Price Foundation members. Here is tude is appalling and dangerous. It also composed from pregnant mare’s urine
a link to our donation page if anyone is doesn’t follow good medical protocols. containing at least seventeen different
able to help out: ecad1.org/mudge_was- No doctor would think of prescribing estrogens) and Provera (a synthetic pro-
ser. Thank you so much for everything thyroid hormone, for example, without gestin). Progestins are not bioidentical
you are doing to bring healthy foods checking hormone levels both before molecules to the progesterone women
into our lives and the lives of so many. prescribing and while the patient was make when they ovulate. Those in
Davene Wasser taking the hormone. the study taking Prempro (Premarin
Central Virginia In my experience, most women, and Provera combined) experienced
probably 80 percent or more, can sail increased strokes, heart attacks, breast

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