Natural HRT Benefits vs. Mare’s Pregnant Urine Estrogen with MPA Prempro--the tragic differences. The NIH used Prempro knowing it was the worst of HRT, and the most prescribed by physicians in the US, but not Europe.  Pregnant horses entails a very poor type of estrogen. 

 The reason why women’s health precipitously declines after menopause http://healthfully.org/rc/id2.html   

The long-term use of NATURAL estradiol (estrogen) and progesterone has been shown to DECREASE the risk of:  Alzheimer’s 83%, Heart attacks 32%, Coronary Heart Disease 50%, Colorectal Cancer 46%, Breast Cancer 73%, Thrombosis 8%,, Osteoporosis Fractures 90%, Macular degeneration 65%, reduces & prevents arthritic join destruction, firmer breasts, Healthier skin (less wrinkles, thicker, 48% more collagen), reduces hair loss, improves cognitive function, less depression and mental illness, and a general feeling of well-being with increased libido. These claims are referenced below and at http://healthfully.org/fhr/.  This is the best synthetic HRT, natural would be significantly better, but Pharma doesn't do basic science that would promote off patent HRT. 

USE OF HRT CUTS PHARMA'S PROFITS

WARNING:  BREAST-CANCER SCREENING leads to aggressive treatment statistically that does more harm than good US taskforce concludes

 These claims are referenced at http://healthfully.org/fhr/id19.html and other pages on this site.  

Unfortuantely, most studies are on the widely used HRT, Prempro, has quite different results, and has been used by Big PhARMA and the FDA to reverse the once come usage of HRT (about 1/3^rd of women past the age of 50).  

"I think that it borders on a tragedy that Premarin and Provera [the 2 compounds in Prempro] were chosen as the only HRT treatments [for the WHI Study]”.  Another researcher finds that Provera [MPA]--and no other progestin--blocks the mechanisms that allow estrogen to fight the brain's immune response to Alzheimer's….  Neuroendocrinologist Bruce S. McEwen of the Rockefeller University is unequivocally critical of the study: "I think that it borders on a tragedy that Premarin and Provera were chosen as the only HRT treatments."  “With Medroxyprogesterone [MPA] in Provera you are activating two receptors involved with cell division in the breast," she says, "and that's the culprit, not estrogen [for increased breast cancer]." --Scientific American Sept. 2003

This is the beginning of a concise article by JK on HRT http://healthfully.org/rc/id2.html