A wonderful book. Very eye opening to say the least. I am having my implant done tomorrow morning. It is sad that we are left in the dark about alternatives for us because the big Pharm's provide 50% of the FDA's budget. Sadly insurance will not pay for the delivery because FDA will not approve it because there is no way for a Pharmaceutical to patent it. Instead we are offered creams or patches that come with a major set of problems. Dr. Donovitz takes you through the history of bioidentical pellet hormones that leaves you shaking your head wondering why we are being dupped and sold out by the FDA. I am so glad I bought this book because it made my decision to move forward with pellet therapy that much stronger. I am gladly paying for this because I want my life back. I am tired of being given band aids in the form of more prescription medications because my hormones are depleted and my thyroid is shot. Knowledge is power and this book definitely will give you back the power to make the right decisions for your optimal health. Thank you Dr. Donovitz for being courageous enough to write this book and outing the wrongs that have been done to both women and men alike during the season's of our lives.
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Ranked it #32 of 45 in hormones/menopause (yeah, it's that bad)
I've read and written mini-reviews of most of the popular menopause/HRT books on Amazon. This one I ranked #32 out of #45. To read the others, search for “frail proof” on the product page of other books you may be considering, or do an Internet search for "Frail Proof" to get a link to the full (and free) Buyer's Guide. Summary: The founder of the BioTE pellet company promotes his products. The good: - Extremely skeptical of Big Pharma, synthetic hormones, and transdermal hormones. - Big proponent of thyroid supplementation with NDT and correctly blames doctors for significantly underdiagnosing and undertreating hypothyroidism. - Doesn’t weigh in on the saliva/blood/urine testing debate, but in practice relies on blood testing. The bad: - Ginormously hypocritical: Goes on and on about the results of Big Pharma’s withholding of information and misrepresentations of the benefits of their products and yet does exactly the same thing, promoting a system where doctors are trained to insert pellets without understanding the risks, the underlying physiology, or even how to do proper follow-up, leading to negative outcomes for a large fraction of their customers and turning doctors into “pellet pushers”. - Unfairly critical of injections because it assumes IM injections done by doctors. In fact SC injections done yourself have none of the listed disadvantages and offer far more stable levels than pellets with an order of magnitude (or perhaps more) lower risks of infection/rejection/overdose/underdose (the book discloses (p105) that just the first two of those happen 6-8% of the time which is just an insanely high failure rate) - The only specific dose or serum level target specified in the entire book is that Total Testosterone of 500ng/ml in men is the criteria to get a new pellet. In fact, depending on SHBG levels, that is already significantly deficient. - Promotes only OMP without even mentioning the inadequate serum progesterone levels most women achieve with that, leading to significant underprotection of endometrium. Claims the sleepiness OMP causes is a benefit. - “Anecdotes” are clearly fabrications. - No references and no index, and the former being especially significant because many of the claims in the book are completely unsupported by the peer-reviewed literature.
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