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Search results for "estrogen" ...
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Selling the Fountain of Youth
The book takes readers inside the modern anti-aging industry, where doctors prescribe human growth hormone (HGH), "bio-identical" estrogen and progesterone, and an infinite medicine chest of herbal supplements such as resveratrol and acai.
Tags: anti-aging; supplements; drugs
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PharmaWater
"The year-month long project by the AP National Investigative Team found that drugs- mostly the residue of medications taken by people, excreted and flushed down the toilet- have gotten into the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans in at least 24 major metropolitan areas, from Southern California to Norther New Jersey." A follow-up was written after the original series.
Tags: health; pollution; medicine; water; drinking water; urban; city; sewer system; waste management; pharmaceuticals; wildlife; fertility; birth control; estrogen
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"The Estrogen Question"
Dr. Susan Love, the celebrity doctor who wrote hugely successful books on breast care and hormones, is a skeptic about the most important topic in women's health today: whether older women should take estrogen. The medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry, she says, have told women that they have a disease, menopause, and have given them a cure, estrogen, even though it's not clear that the disease is a disease and the cure is a cure. So why, after even the slightest scrutiny does so much of what Love has to say begin to fall apart?
Tags: hormone replacement therapy; estrogen; Dr. Susan Love; menopause