TheDoctorsTV and Hormone Health Issues
Today was a tricky day for the doctors. They talked about the relative importance of hormones in disease and in health.
But there was a huge problem…
Dr. Travis insinuated that the nutritional supplement industry is not ‘regulated’ like the pharmaceutical industry, so it’s not safe to use ‘over-the-counter’ products for building muscle as an athlete or body-builder. Nonsense!
Dr. Travis and far too many of his medical cohorts think that the FDA is godlike when it is a fallible organization often influenced more by money than safety. He’s naieve…to say the least…to think that writing a prescription for a drug is ‘safe’ for someone’s health. There are so many law suits in progress that challenges his belief system, it’s nauseating!
Just because a drug meets the standards of the FDA, doesn’t guarantee its efficacy nor its safety for a person’s health. This is where we find it disturbing that so many doctors are oblivious or choose to ignore the dangers of pharmaceuticals.
Many of us switched to natural health care long ago with companies, advocacy groups, and industry giants that do provide oversight and management for safety and purity. The FDA regulates nutritional supplement companies’ claims and statements all the time. Most of the labs that produce supplements perform above and beyond accepted pharmaceutical standards. When will the doctors get this through their heads?
It’s the FTC and other governmental agencies that miss some of those dangerous products that enter the country from China and other ‘unregulated’ countries that present the problem.
Dr. Lisa did an inadequate job of describing ‘natural’ vs ‘synthetic’ hormone replacement products. She mentioned soy and wild yam, but conveniently forgot to tell you about horse urine in synthesized drugs. Why haven’t doctors sought out the wisdom of TCM and the use of herbal formulations to restore Balance in the Endocrine System? Because they would rather use drugs to manipulate hormones, instead of restoring Balance. it keeps them in business…
The only valuable contribution today was the ‘ear buds’…
Even that Sleep Smoothie is simply not going to replace the effort you make to keep your bedroom dark with a sleep mask or a way to keep the light out, so your pineal gland can produce Melatonin to give you a restful, dream-filled sleep.
