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Natural Hormones… Are They Really Natural? |
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Page 4 of 8 Uzzi Reiss has also discussed with T. S. Wiley her approach. Dr. Reiss is a Beverly Hills, California Ob/Gyn. In his book, Natural Hormone Balance for Women, Dr. Reiss espouses Dr. Wright’s approach to estrogen; estriol in minute amounts, along with progesterone in minute amounts. Dr. Wright prefers creams and a stable, static low dosing regimen and Dr. Reiss uses gels.
The biggest difference, however, is that Dr. Reiss advises patients to do whatever feels right. On his website Dr. Reiss says that he believes in self-medication that, in fact, he teaches women to “self-adjust the intake” of the hormones that he prescribes. The problem with this approach is that every time you “self-adjust”, you destroy normal templates as well as derange your response to the last dose.
Endocrinology is a system of iterative functions, in other words - change the environment and the environment changes you and so on and so on and so on. Natural? Yes, but not with you at the wheel. He also says women don’t need to have periods and cites Wiley’s work in molecular oncology and endocrinology in Natural Hormone Balance for Women.
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