The Wiley Protocol

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com

It was T.S. Wiley who pioneered the standardization of bioidenticals. The patent pending Wiley Protocol formulations were developed especially with unique, standardized compounding procedures and color coded packaging, available to physicians and patients at recommended retail prices. These biomimetic hormone protocols are formulated by a trained and registered compounding pharmacist, and there is a reason for that.

A recent March 19 Wall Street Journal article said, “There are 25 years of scientific research with hundreds of studies in the U.S. and Europe that have demonstrated that bioidentical hormones, estradiol and micronized progesterone, are equally or more effective than synthetics -- and safer.”

But how safe is safe? Unless bioidenticals are standardized, are they truely safe enough? The more familiar doctors and consumers become with the benefits of bioidenticals, the more important standardization will become. It has always been T.S. Wiley's goal that a woman in any city or town can pick up her prescription for the Wiley Protocol and it will always be exactly the same as it is everywhere else.

The pharmacist in charge of the Wiley Protocol Pharmacy Consortium, Dana Nelson, believes it’s important for patients who are taking bioidentical hormones like the Wiley Protocol to understand that we have standardized the protocols for compounding, so that we can be sure the Wiley Protocol doctors prescribe for patients is the same from each and every pharmacy across the U.S. and Canada.

Pharmacist' registration is basically a trade for the right to use the name Wiley Protocol for the product produced when a physician calls in a prescription for the Wiley Protocol, in exchange for a contract that specifies the methods, materials, packaging and recommended pricing of the Wiley Protocol at their individual pharmacies. These requirements of good compounding (manufacturing) practices apply only to the production and compounding of the Wiley Protocol.

California-based compounding pharmacist Mike Shah talks about the benefits of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy saying, “I have a couple of cancer patients, and it is their belief that the Wiley Protocol is holding off the cancer, and it’s incredible to see… when you hear patients come back and they’re happy with what they are doing and their quality of life has just improved vastly, and they’re so excited about being and feeling like themselves again, it gives a great sense of achievement and accomplishment.”