I have always been interested, both as a health writer and a woman, in the use of natural hormones to treat a wide range of conditions. The development of the Pill, and then HRT, opened up a whole world of synthetic hormones to what at the time was an eager audience for help with birth control and symptoms of menopause. However, like many ‘revolutions’, there have been casualties along the way. This is particularly true of the now well-established links between these hormone drugs and heart disease, breast cancer and other risks associated with taking synthetic hormones.
It was my great privilege, through my colleague Dame Dr Shirley Bond, to meet the late John Lee MD and discover that there was indeed an alternative. He was an inspiration to many women and, despite negative press and an indifferent and often hostile response from the medical profession, we have him to thank for what he called ‘the grassroots revolution’ of women making their own decision on hormone health through his championing of natural progesterone as a true alternative for menopause and osteoporosis treatment.
In founding the Natural Progesterone Information Service many years ago I took on the task of spreading information about natural hormones to women and their doctors. It must be said that the women were a lot more responsive and interested than the doctors, and in my work since then I have focused on bringing natural hormone news to its real audience – women worldwide.
There is so much health information around now you might wonder why a special website dedicated to natural hormones is needed, but I still see so much disinformation about natural hormones being repeated that a site that brings honest and patient-centred information is long overdue.
We will be bringing you information from informed professionals, things to think about, resources and a place to share your views with a network of similarly concerned women. If it concerns natural hormones, you will most likely find something about it on our site and together I hope we can help other women to discover that there really are natural alternatives to synthetic hormones.
Wishing you the best of good health – AnnA Rushton, Bio-Hormone-Health Editor