Sentences with phrase «synthetic progestin rather»

Most progesterone hormone therapy side effects occur when people use synthetic progestin rather than natural progesterone that is biologically identical to the hormone produced in the body.

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(8)(43) Rather, the 2008 French Cohort Study by Fournier showed that in women using hormone replacement combination drugs, increased breast cancer was associated with synthetic progestin use, while women using bioidentical progesterone had no increased breast cancer (compared to non-hormone users).

Then their physicians tried to convince them that once they had reached menopause they should automatically go on hormone replacement therapy featuring synthetic estrogens and progestins, only to find it was increasing their risk of deadly diseases rather than saving them from the aging process.

They rightly observed that many progestins — the synthetic, molecularly altered forms of progesterone found in pharmaceutical drugs — have been clearly shown to increase rather than decrease breast cancer risks.