Dear Healthy Friend,

As a regular Health Bytes reader, you already know that Hormone Replacement Therapy comes with a list of "less than acceptable" side-effects... And please, don't get me started on the origins of this treatment... Now it appears that there's another side-effect that could lead to a deadly outcome...

Keep reading to see what Christine O'Brien reveals about this treatment...

In the name of good health,

Taryn Strugnell
Managing Editor of Nutrition & Healing

P.S. Bypass surgery is a scary experience. There could be complications upon complications, so I'm sure you'd want to do anything you can to prevent as much as possible... Dr Wright explains what you could do to prevent blood clots...

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New risk linked to HRT... As if menopause on its own wasn't enough.... 
Christine O'Brien
Editor, Nutrition & Healing

If you know a woman who is undergoing hormone replacement therapy (still?), you're going to want to forward this to her right away.

Because new research has revealed that HRT may make lung cancer significantly more deadly.

Lung cancer is already the world's biggest cancer killer. So it certainly doesn't need any help. But, of course, here comes HRT, already harmful in so many other ways, to make it more than twice as deadly.

These are the latest findings from the Women's Health Initiative, a study that was stopped in 2002 because researchers started seeing more breast cancers in women taking an oestrogen-progestin pill.

Though the study ended, researchers continue to follow the women who participated and the lung cancer findings are the newest in the long list of the disturbing effects of HRT.

Hormone users who developed lung cancer were 60% more likely to die from the disease than women who weren't taking hormones.

Researchers looked at non-small-cell lung cancer, which is the most common form. They found that the cancer was fatal in 46% (yes, nearly half) of women taking oestrogen-progestin pills, and in 27% of women given a placebo.

Somewhat surprisingly (at least I think so), this led researchers to say smokers should stop taking hormones. Now, you know study results are scary when the mainstream media is actually willing to print advice to stop taking a drug!

Of course, the American Cancer Society and the drug company reps stepped right up for damage control. The ACS pointed out that the number of deaths (106) is too low to make any "sweeping conclusions". So, how many more deaths do they want to see before we can start drawing conclusions?

And the company that made the pill that stopped the study in 2002, has reps saying that women use HRT differently now. Women start younger and take hormones for an average of two years instead of five. The manufacturer claims the same risks might not apply with this new pattern.

Dr Richard Schilsky, the president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, called this study another piece of evidence that HRT should be used with "great caution".

I don't know, Dr Schilsky... How about not at all?

Subscribers to Dr Wright's Nutrition & Healing newsletter can read about HRT (and a safe alternative) in the article Hormone replacement therapy can be safe - when you put back the missing ingredient: Nature by logging on to www.fsp.co.za and reading this report under the "member's specials".

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Busting blood clots before they form

Q: I am scheduled to undergo bypass surgery soon. What can I do to prevent blood clots? I've heard this surgery will put me at high risk for them.

Dr. Wright: My primary recommendation for any "before and after coronary bypass" routine is regular use of fish oil (always with vitamin E), which prevents clots from forming in the first place.

You may also want to consider taking nattokinase, a natural enzyme derived from the Japanese soy food natto. While nattokinase is best known for its ability to break up existing clots, I have heard reports from people who tell me that it also works as a preventative.

If it were me, I'd use 1 tablespoonful of cod liver oil (mercury-free, of course) and 400IU of mixed tocopherols twice daily, along with one nattokinase capsule every 8 hours, starting as soon as possible after bypass surgery... Or even before the surgery if I could.

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