For those of you currently on a medical prescription for hormone replacement, the route of administration of the hormones is crucial to your health. When research has compared the oral route versus transdermal or through the skin, the oral route has far greater health risks.

Your MD can have your oral hormone prescription changed to a cream and made up at a compounding pharmacy. (To compound is to create by mixing or combining.) Tell your MD that you would like 2 things written into your prescription due to your “sensitivity to chemicals”:

1. Hormones are sent to the pharmacy as crystalline powders that they “pick up” with propylene glycol (solvent used to make anti-freeze and in the paint and plastic industries) which is then combined with a lotion. Request that olive oil be used instead to “pick up” the hormone powder, thus reducing your health risks.
2. The lotion or cream that the pharmacy will use has very toxic preservatives and ingredients in it which is their usual operating basis. Request that the compounding pharmacy use your own healthy organic lotion instead that you bring to them before they begin their process. To save yourself trips, you can ask them to make up a 3 month supply instead of monthly trips. If you are at a loss for a healthy organic lotion, call my office at 818-808-0899.

Your primary job is to find an MD who is willing to help you with your best health interests. The rest is easy.

Good Luck!

Dr. Pepi

May 30, 2007