While menopause is inevitable for most of us, how we treat it is optional. There are currently a variety of healthful options to mitigate ones symptoms. If you are one of the thousands of women using bio-identical hormones, or think you might like to use them in the future – NOW is the time to pay attention to what’s happening in Congress – before you have no choice.

Some major drug companies have pressured the FDA to ban bio-identical estriol (which they did this past January) – a hormone that is identical to the one the human body produces. Why? Because women are now looking to these alternatives to help them through menopause rather than using the synthetic versions that the drug makers make millions selling.

While you may not choose to use bio-identical hormones, let’s allow it to remain a viable option for those women who do. You can contact your congressperson and ask them to support a bill that’s currently in Congress designed to overturn the FDA’s ban on estriol. The drug companies should be allowed to sell their products, but not run off the competition. Perhaps they might be motivated to improve their products to have less detrimental side effects.

The drug companies are counting on women to be silent, or ignorant, or passive. Let’s show them we’re not. DO something.

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