Dr Ivone Mirpuri argues that treating menopause with bioidentical hormones should be a woman’s right and would cost-effectively prevent diseases that cause thousands of deaths a year.
“A woman will live about 40% of her life during menopause. How can we not treat a woman knowing that she will have a greater risk of cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease, major depression” and a greater likelihood of osteoporotic femoral neck fracture, asked the clinic’s pathologist, a specialist in anti-aging medicine and hormonal modulation.
In an interview with Lusa on the occasion of this week’s World Women’s Health Day, the specialist lamented that many doctors associate hormone therapy with breast cancer, confusing bioidentical hormones with non-bioidentical ones.
“A bioidentical hormone is a hormone that is chemically the same as ours. (…) We cannot confuse one with the other,” he warned.
As he explained, the 2002 study linking hormone therapy to breast cancer was based on hormones that were used at the time in the United States and which have “nothing in common” with current bioidentical hormones.
Moreover, it was “highly biased” because it included women aged 50 to 79, many of whom already had degenerative diseases.
Ivone Mirpuri said the risk of breast cancer in women who take bioidentical hormone replacement is even slightly lower than in those who don’t because the therapy reduces “stress” that can contribute to cancer.
To criticism about the lack of research on this therapy, the specialist responds that bioidentical hormones have been used for more than 60 years, and some, such as dissected porcine thyroid gland, the first bioidentical hormone used, have been used for more than 100 years. .
“Hormonal therapy is protective and does not cause cancer,” the doctor said. Protects against osteoporosis, cardiovascular risks, reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 40%, reduces the risk of colorectal tumors, and also stimulates the entire innate immune system.
Reminding that 25% of femoral neck fractures caused by osteoporosis result in death within the first year, the doctor asked: “Tell me, do you know of any therapy that is so cheap and at the same time prevents so many diseases, which cause such a high mortality rate among women.”
According to Ivone Mirpuri, only 30% of menopausal women experience hot flashes, but all suffer from other symptoms such as vaginal dryness, atrophy of the mucous membranes, urinary incontinence, decreased libido, and more sagging skin on the face and body. feeling of headaches, empty, with lack of concentration and memory.
In 70%, blood pressure rises and cholesterol levels begin to rise in an attempt to replenish hormones that are no longer produced during menopause.
Without hormones, a woman will experience more dementia, depression, allergies, sleep quality, and body pain.
The consequence of this is the overtreatment of these women with anxiolytics, antidepressants, anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, antihistamines and analgesics, he lamented.
“In my 16 years of clinical practice doing this therapy, I see women being treated poorly because doctors understand that hormones cause cancer, which is wrong.”
The doctor acknowledged that many doctors use non-bioidentical hormones, which carry risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices, but reiterated that bioidentical hormones protect health.
And he stressed that hormone therapy should be linked to other important areas, including nutritional supplements and avoiding unhealthy lifestyle choices such as coffee, tobacco, alcohol, anxiolytics and antidepressants, some of which increase the risk of breast cancer.
“The same doctor who is afraid to give women hormones will give antidepressants,” he criticized.
And he concluded: “The national scenario must change, and that is a woman’s right to menopausal treatment, so that we don’t have what we increasingly have in our country: a society over-pumped with anxiolytics and antidepressants, unproductive, dependent and unhappy.” .