Adding progesterone derivatives, such as Provera, does not offset this increased risk

One of the most exciting breakthroughs in recent research is the discovery that a natural, nonprescription preparation, called natural progesterone, actually helps build healthy new bone where it has been lost. If you already have osteoporosis, there is an additional step that you might consider to reverse it. Controlling calcium losses is a much safer strategy. Given that the lifetime risk of breast cancer in North American women is already one in eight, anything that increases that risk even further is of obvious concern. The Harvard Nurses' Health Study found that women taking estrogens have 30 to 80 percent more breast cancer, compared to other women. (Other brands are synthetic or plant-derived, but have not been marketed as aggressively as Premarin.); What has many physicians worried is that estrogens increase the risk of breast cancer. The well-publicized pictures of tens of thousands of horses chained by the neck on urine production farms are disquieting to say the least.

Many women find these hormones distasteful because the most commonly prescribed brand, Premarin, is actually made from pregnant mares' urine, from whence comes its name. If you are a woman, your doctor is likely to recommend estrogen supplements after menopause as a way to slow osteoporosis, although the effect is not much over the long run and is rarely able to stop or reverse it. American standards are higher, at 800 mg per day or even more, partly because the meat, salt, caffeine, tobacco, and physical inactivity of American life leads to unnaturally rapid loss of calcium through the kidneys, and also because America's dairy industry has had a major and thoroughly unhelpful influence on health recommendations.

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