Health Freedom Action

FDA: Protect Bio Identical Hormones

Deadline Extended to May 4, 2006. Act NOW to Protect Your Health and Health Freedom by Urging the FDA to Protect Your Right to Natural Health Options

Summarized Information About Bio Identical Hormones You Can Use in Your Letter:

The huge National Institutes of Health Womens' Health Initiative was halted more than a year early in 2002 because women who took synthetic hormones (Premarin, made from pregnant mares' urine, a conjugated estrogen and Prempro, a combination of Premarin and a synthetic progesterone also called progestin) were at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, breast and uterine cancer, mental decline and life threatening blood clots. There was no benefit to taking these drugs which are made by Wyeth.

Millions of women switched to Bio Identical Hormones (BIH) because they are natural, inexpensive and safe compounds which are easy on the body and work beautifully. Made for each woman's need by compounding pharmacies, they are also a threat to Wyeth's bottom line.

Using a Citizens Petition to the FDA, Wyeth is seeking to ban all natural hormones and end compounding. Natural health options to dangerous drugs are under significant attack.

Very Important Instructions to Make Your Letter as Effective as Possible:

Make your letter brief and to the point. If you have a personal story to tell, tell it in a clear manner. Your personalized but brief email really counts!

1. Indicate what you want the person reading your letter to do in a line at the top of your letter in large, bold type. For example: “PROTECT MY HEALTH FREEDOM: KEEP BIO IDENTICAL HORMONES ON THE MARKET! ″.

2. Identify the Natural Solutions Foundation Agencies and Congress appreciate knowing which grass roots organization you agree with enough to write your letter. Include a sentence at the beginning of the first paragraph like, “I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation to strongly encourage your support of my health rights and protection of Bio Identical Hormones which are important to me because [give a single phrase summary of your position].

3. Personalize your letter Tell your story briefly, briefly, briefly. State who you are, how old you are and why this is important to you. Remember to keep it brief.

4. Identify yourself. Include your name, address and email at the conclusion of your email. If you do not identify yourself your email is wasted. Don’t waste your effort and your opinion by omitting this crucial information.

November 22, 2009

Subject:

Docket: 2005P-0411

I am writing at the urging of the Natural Solutions Foundation to urge you to protect my right to choose bio identical and other safe, natural and inexpensive products based on my personal decision to do so. My health and my health freedom are seriously threatened by the move by Wyeth to take away this right since it asks FDA to remove substances which directly compete with their products, Premarin and Prempro.

While the Wyeth products are so dangerous that the huge National Institute of Health Womens' Health Initiative was halted to protect women from them, they are still on the market for those women who choose to use them.  Millions of other women, however, understand their dangers and choose to support their hormone needs with safe, bio-identical molecules made for them on the prescription of the physicians.  Wyeth has submitted a Citizens Petition to eliminate the competition, not protect the consumer.  This is unacceptable and I urge the FDA to focus on its responsibility to protect consumers' well-being in preference to protecting a company's profits when those profits are derived from products so harmful that the National Institutes of Health could not allow them to continue to be used on clinical trail subjects.

Further, Bio Identical Hormones are formulated to each woman's need by compounding pharmacists so that dosages and ratios can be adjusted individually.  The result is high patient satisfaction with very low side effect or complication rates.  This contrasts sharply with Wyeth's unsuccessful competitors.

Compounding pharmacists are skilled allies in the quest for public health, relied upon by both health care practitioners and patients for formulations which make them well and keep them that way.  Like natural, low cost, safe and effective Bio Identical Hormones they need the support and backing of the FDA, not its opposition.

I strongly urge you to support my rights, that of my health care professionals and the professional activities of compounding pharmacists and reject Wyeth's attempt to use the power of a federal agency to restrain trade in its benefit and against that of the public. I urge you to champion the rights of Americans to make natural health choices.  Wyeth's Premarin and Prempro have been proven at great public expense to be both ineffective in preventing chronic disease in menopausal women and to be, in fact, dangerous drugs.  No such danger exists with Bio Identical Hormones.  They should be protected and their use encouraged.

I am a concerned and activated American and I will be watching your health freedom support closely.

Yours in health and freedom,

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