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The Standard of Care: Synthetics |
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What Was the Women’s Health Initiative About?
Bernadine Healy http://www.edwardsly.com/healyb.htm was the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC from 1991- 1993 . She initiated a large scale study of the effects of vitamin supplementation, synthetic hormone replacement therapy, and dietary modification on women between the ages of forty-five and seventy-nine. She earmarked seven hundred and twenty-two million dollars for research into women’s health specifically, not men’s health or children’s health, but women’s health.
The NIH, under the direction of Healy, then established the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) to address the most common causes of death, disability, and impaired quality of life in postmenopausal women. The results comprehensively discuss cardiovascular disease, cancer and osteoporosis in women over 65 years-old on PremPro and Premarin only.
The WHI was organized to attempt to correct many of the inequities in women's health research and provide practical information to women and their doctors. The information provided focuses on synthetic hormone replacement therapy, dietary patterns and calcium/ Vitamin D supplements and their effects on the prevention of heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. The incident of these three diseases increases after a woman reaches menopause.
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