Raina Morgan: Hi, I’m Raina Morgan with iHealthTube visiting with Dr. Selman, Dr. Selman isn’t it characteristic we believed that only women experience bone loss and that typically it happens at menopause and that they also treat it typically with estrogen and that’s not necessarily the best treatment correct?
Dr. Selman: Absolutely, you know we have a little bit of a history lesson.
Raina Morgan: Sure, that would be great.
Dr. Selman: How this all started, there was a book written in 1966 called Feminine Forever, it was written by a gynecologist named Dr. Robert Wilson and he supposedly did one study for one year upon which he wrote his book. And his book basically said that women without estrogen will shrivel up, become caricatures of their former selves, become—you know basically useless. And he had the solution which was estrogen, so and in this book he said the ovaries die and stop producing estrogen and his book was a big seller. He was quoted in medical text and hundreds of articles were written about him and that began the trend to put estrogen into the program for women’s health and so that really lodged this whole hormone journey we’ve been on. Based on a lot of myth and misinformation I want to say that his once sturdy was deemed flawed by the FDA. He was later discredited as a reputable researcher and he also was setup by the industry, left by the pharmaceutical industry making estrogen, so he would use his name.
He was a shill in a sense, he was just you know, so it was all based on lies and misinformation. So to enhance this industry another reason had to be created and primarily that was the result of the fact that after ten years of women taking estrogen replacement therapy with uterus with or without uterus. It was discovered by two studies that came out simultaneously in 1976 that there was an 800% increase in uterus cancer in the previous ten years and they attributed that huge increase and many women died from uterus cancer was due to estrogen replacement therapy. So it should never, never have been prescribed to women and it was unfounded, it was definitely a push to sell the drug and when the scandal came out the drug company had to quickly regroup, they added as synthetic progestin. Called it hormone replacement therapy, not estrogen replacement therapy and then have to find a new reason to get women back on the strobe who left in droves because of its known carcinogenic effect, so what they did do?
Raina Morgan: It sounds that they have been used and abused here.
Dr. Selman: We have been lied too and deceived and betrayed for many, many years and the way that they got us back is they created a condition that we could not resist. It was called osteoporosis, the symbol for osteoporosis was this old woman with a hump, and those were ads that were displayed in medical journals. And everywhere to and I remember one ad and it said, if you give her one of this which is the HRT pill, you don’t have to give her two of this and there you see the crutches. So it’s a scare tactic, it was a classic example of using scare tactics in advertising to get us to go back on the pill, so the industry created a new condition and they said that women are more vulnerable.
That menopause is the time when we start loosing bone, that third drug, estrogen was going to stop boneless, and that’s how women got back onto the use of HRT for boneless. Which we now know has had no effect on stopping boneless, you know it is not menopause that creates a time of boneless. Bone loss occurs far earlier than when we arrive at menopause. It is not a female problem and estrogen is not the hormone that rebuilds bone, its progesterone that actually is known to stimulate the cells that actually rebuild them.
Raina Morgan: Okay and products like Bossom X and you know bone replacement how do they stack up?
Dr. Selman: Well very popular, very popular drugs are a classification called diphosphonates, so you said fosomax, boniva, there is one a day, you know one a week, one a month, well here is the abbreviated version of those drugs. Those drugs are metabolically poisoning the cells, they actually kill bone cells, it’s an illusion to think that these drugs are actually helping to rebuild bone and stop loss. Its an illusion because the cells have—the bones have cells that either way all dead and dying cells, all tissue do this everyday. Every part of our body does this, the cells get die and get reborn, it’s also true in our bones, so we have cells that eat out and clear out old dead and dying parts of the bone and when we have new cells that replace it and build new bones.
So the fosomax and this diphosphonates drugs go in there and stop the removal of old dead and dying cells, so it stops it. It like freezes this remodeling process, so when you stop the process you also cannot lay down new healthy bone cells. So because its stopping this process, long term use of this drugs will actually create poor quality bone and lead to greater risk of fractures. Now there is something that has come to light just recently. People who’ve been on this drugs for a period of time are noticing that their jaw bones are deteriorating and as a result, many people have had to have total replacement of their jaws because its been eaten away by fosomax and by this diphosphonates and this was on the news because this is the first place. The jaw areas the first place where we experience bone loss, which is why people have dental problems, and these drugs have many side effects, they are very toxic to the liver, they really are disaster to our health. They will never increase bone density, never and then bring along with it of health problems with them.
Raina Morgan: Well thank you for addressing that Dr. Selman, that’s very vital information.
Dr. Selman: You’re very welcome.
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