Dr. Carolyn Dean Live

HRT has been used since the 1950s. It was in 1966 that Dr. Robert A. Wilson was commissioned by the makers of Premarin to sell a nation of women on the age-defying benefits of an estrogen substitute derived from pregnant mare’s urine. In the forty years since then, we have begun to learn more about the side effects of HRT. Over that same time period, the chemical xenoestrogens in our environment that mimic hormones have been jamming up hormonal receptor sites in a process that Dr. Candace B. Pert (in her book Molecules of Emotion) calls “chemical rape.” In my book, Hormone Balance, written back in 2005,  I describe the incredible orchestration of hormones in the body and the many ways that balance can be disrupted. This loss of balance can lead to symptoms of mood swings, PMS, weight gain—and even seizures. Hormones (or her-moans, as my sister Chris calls them) are definitely something that women moan about, and there are a multitude of reasons why. I am happy to say that there are wonderfully different