From bacteria to blue whales, to humans, the whole universe
is all about timing. The moon provides more light when it
is full and when the new moon ends, every twenty-eight days
females bleed with what has come to be known as their
period. The circadian clock in every cell of our bodies
measures one spin of the planet. Then the moon tracks the
repeating 28 of those days 13 times in one revolution
around the sun.
While doing research for her book, "Sex, Lies, and
Menopause," Author T.S. Wiley asked a question... If
hormone replacement was made of real bio-identical hormones
and dosed to mimic the ups and downs of the hormone blood
levels in a normal menstrual cycle in a 20 year-old woman,
would all of the symptoms and disease states of aging
decline or maybe even, disappear?
It was an interesting thought, and to the surprise of many,
the logic makes sense. Perhaps it was the rhythm that was
always missing in other hormone replacement regimens.
Here's why. Natural hormones are not bio-identical hormones
unless a person's body can recognize them as hormones.
Natural hormones are not considered replacement unless you
really replace what has been lost. Natural hormones are not
bio-identical unless they replace precisely the "natural"
rhythmic levels of someone's own estrogen and progesterone
when they were younger.
Doctors who want to prescribe natural hormones but who
aren't familiar with the fact that hormones should mimic
natural hormone rhythms will merely prescribe natural
hormones in the same way they prescribe synthetics. The
Women's Health Initiative (WHI) has already found that
standard to be dangerous. But what if it's not just the
synthetic molecules that are dangerous? What if it's really
the missing rhythm that matters?
All this research led to the development of a product that
thousands of women are now taking. Funding for research is
on the way. This multi-phasic physiologic dosing will be
part of a new study called Bioidentical Hormones On Trial,
or B.H.O.T., a comparison of patterns of administration and
dosing of compounded bio-identical hormone therapy (BHT).
It will be the first study of its kind to track and
quantify outcomes based on dosing and patterns of
administration of BHT. The principal objective of the study
will be to examine clinical outcomes and quality of life
indicators of patients receiving BHT at 10 to 12 primary
care provider's practices.
One Wiley Protocol user said this: "At the time I heard
about this new protocol I was just 52, still cycling with
horrendous cramps and hemmoraghing type periods. I had not
slept in seven years and had gained 50 pounds since
peri-menopause. I was emotionally crazed times and my knees
hurt so bad that I couldn't kneel. I was taking homeopathic
hormone creams from a naturopath. uly amazing resource.
Susie and I talked in depth, I went to my doctor, and
apparently my symptoms during my periods were that of
fibroids. I started the Wiley Protocol in January of 2004,
and 28 days later, I had my first "normal" period in many
years. There were no more cramps, and I felt emotionally
more stable, less weepy, plus I started sleeping through
the night. Then my knees stopped hurting and I have since
lost the weight. Almost four years later I have absolutely
no sign of the fibroids."
There are hundreds of women who can say this now about
their experiences on this protocol.
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Kristin Gabriel is the director of marketing communications
for T.S. Wiley, who is a medical writer and researcher in
chronobiology, environmental endocrinology and circadian
rhythmicity. Wiley is the author of "Sex, Lies &
Menopause," Harper Collins, 2005. She is also the developer
of The Wiley Protocol (http://www.thewileyprotocol.com), a
trademarked patent pending delivery system consisting of
bio-identical estradiol and progesterone in topical cream
preparations dosed in a rhythm to mimic the natural cyclic
hormone levels replicated in serum blood produced by a
twenty year-old woman.
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