Hormones and Your Health

T.S. Wiley before the Special Committee on Aging in front of the United States Senate April 19, 2007

I prescribe to my patients a new method of hormone replacement therapy(HRT) called the Wiley Protocol for women to use as a more accurate form of replacement for lost endocrine function. The remedies available to women suffering from hormone deficiency are woefully inadequate. The commercial pharmaceutical offerings are either bio-identical and too low in dosage to have efficacy, or synthetic drugs, far too dangerous to take. Here in the United States, there are over 40 million women between the ages of 40 and 60.

Worldwide, about 25 million women enter menopause annually. It is estimated that by the year 2030, that number will increase to 47 million women per year. Since 1900, in the developed countries, the life expectancy of women has increase from age 47 to well over age 80, however, the average onset of menopause has remained at 50 as recorded for the last 150 years. That means, overall, women are living at least thirty years longer than they did at the turn of the century.

Our society has never felt the impact of the majority of women living 30 or more years in a hormone deficient state. It won’t be pretty. Right now, modern medicine keeps us propped up with antibiotics and surgery, thanks to blood transfusion and anesthesia. But just being alive does not assure “quality of life.” Without it, extended lifespan is far less than a gift. It’s estimated that eighty percent of women experience a variety of transiently debilitating symptoms in menopause and 30% of those are classified as severe.

About ten years before women ever have a hot flash or a migraine, we have odd, too-short menstrual periods, we’re up half of every night and we start to look old. And almost as soon as we start to look old, we start to feel old. Exhaustion coupled with plummeting sex hormones creates a life in tatters and a mind like Swiss cheese. Sex would be a memory, if we could remember anything. Our joints twinge and, worst of all, we can’t fall asleep or stay asleep. It is anecdotal common knowledge that older people wander around all night limping and bumping into things when they should be out like a light.

Given the evidence that these symptoms of menopause, which can begin for women as early as their late thirties, are the same as the daily challenges the elderly face -- that we become, in fact, “old” when our hormones start to plummet -- we can probably assume we’re going to be sick, too, if we aren’t already. Because it is, again, anecdotal common knowledge that old really equals sick in the preponderance of cases -- and sick and old in our culture means usually means cancer, diabetes, heart disease, glaucoma, depression, even Alzheimer’s, and since we’ve established that menopausal symptoms are the same symptoms “old” people experience, then, menopause must really equal sick, and since all those outcomes above of “sick” can be life-threatening, menopause, itself, must really be life-threatening.

If menopause might really equal cancer, diabetes, heart disease, glaucoma, depression, and Alzheimer’s, why is it, then, that in those ads for “menopause products”, and in the health advice from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), the Women’s Health Intiative (WHI), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), no one ever mentions any of the life-threatening disabilities associated with hormonal decline and urges women to accurately replace those hormones that have gone missing?


Call my office in Wilmington (815) 476-5210 or Lombard (630) 627-3700 to set up an appointment or email me at jones.gretchen@gmail.com

Because of pharmacies like Westmoreland Pharmacy, women can get The Wiley Protocol

It is my intent to stop Wyeth-Ayerst from destroying the compounding of bio-identical hormones by playing the game by their rules. Many of the doctors I have worked with have shown me the ropes.

Five Easy Pieces
Here’s the plan:

• Step 1: Registering compounding pharmacies across the country to make my invention, the Wiley Protocol®, in a standardized fashion that requires methods, materials, packaging and pricing stabilization overseen by T.S.Wiley, under a contractual pretext wherein T.S. Wiley drives a revenue stream (you) to them in exchange for doing the job right.
• Step 2: Test quarterly their product and rely on you to report your experiences with them.
• Step 3: Publish our feat of standardization of a compounded product in Pharmacy Journals. Until this is accomplished, the FDA won’t ever take bio-identical hormones seriously.
• Step 4: Once we have enough Registered Pharmacies, each donating 10 prescriptions, we can have a legitimate study of a donated consistent product for the treatment of menopause. The study substance must be donated in the US to comply with NIH regulations. No lone Compounding Pharmacy will ever be able to bear the economic burden of a 5000 to 20,000 woman study. This is the only way I can find to beat the system invented by Big Pharma.
• Step 5: Take some of the money made selling Pharmacies packaging with my name on it, that you look for, and finance the study. (pay for indemnification and blood tests)
  5 Easy Pieces and we own our future.

To be very clear: I’m asking you to go to a physician who will honor your request to get your prescription for the Wiley Protocol® at a Registered Pharmacy. Pharmacies not Registered, will offer you “generics” which cost more and are not standardized. You all must take the exactly same thing in order to ever study the results and report them in a credible way. I’m also asking you to reward the pharmacists who will help us prove our point and to help them prove to Congress that Compounding Pharmacy is capable of self-regulation and should not be shut down for the economic gain of Wyeth.

Bottom Line

We spend billions of dollars on menopause and get almost no benefit and quite often harm for our desperate efforts. I intend this to stop. We deserve decent, deliberate medical care based on scientific premise and investigation, hence Feminist Medicine. We are half of the world and we live at the center of the other half’s universe. We are mothers, sisters, daughters and grandmothers as well as lovers and business partners. We shape and defend the world of men and children. When we feel bad, everyone suffers. – T.S.Wiley

Until we have enough pharmacies to realize our goal, we intend to gather your data soon in this spot on the website using the North American Menopause Society’s Questionnaire for symptoms and registering your blood work results if you defer HIPPA privacy regulations. We are currently reviewing software solutions for sifting the data we can gather to report to medical journals.

Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com

It is my intent to stop Wyeth-Ayerst from destroying the compounding of bio-identical hormones by playing the game by their rules. Many of the doctors I have worked with have shown me the ropes.

Five Easy Pieces
Here’s the plan:

• Step 1: Registering compounding pharmacies across the country to make my invention, the Wiley Protocol®, in a standardized fashion that requires methods, materials, packaging and pricing stabilization overseen by me, T.S.Wiley, under a contractual pretext wherein I drive a revenue stream (you) to them in exchange for doing the job right.
• Step 2: Test quarterly their product and rely on you to report your experiences with them.
• Step 3: Publish our feat of standardization of a compounded product in Pharmacy Journals. Until this is accomplished, the FDA won’t ever take bio-identical hormones seriously.
• Step 4: Once we have enough Registered Pharmacies, each donating 10 prescriptions, we can have a legitimate study of a donated consistent product for the treatment of menopause. The study substance must be donated in the US to comply with NIH regulations. No lone Compounding Pharmacy will ever be able to bear the economic burden of a 5000 to 20,000 woman study. This is the only way I can find to beat the system invented by Big Pharma.
• Step 5: Take some of the money made selling Pharmacies packaging with my name on it, that you look for, and finance the study. (pay for indemnification and blood tests)
  5 Easy Pieces and we own our future.

To be very clear: I’m asking you to go to a physician who will honor your request to get your prescription for the Wiley Protocol® at a Registered Pharmacy. Pharmacies not Registered, will offer you “generics” which cost more and are not standardized. You all must take the exactly same thing in order to ever study the results and report them in a credible way. I’m also asking you to reward the pharmacists who will help us prove our point and to help them prove to Congress that Compounding Pharmacy is capable of self-regulation and should not be shut down for the economic gain of Wyeth.

Bottom Line

We spend billions of dollars on menopause and get almost no benefit and quite often harm for our desperate efforts. I intend this to stop. We deserve decent, deliberate medical care based on scientific premise and investigation, hence Feminist Medicine. We are half of the world and we live at the center of the other half’s universe. We are mothers, sisters, daughters and grandmothers as well as lovers and business partners. We shape and defend the world of men and children. When we feel bad, everyone suffers. – T.S.Wiley

Until we have enough pharmacies to realize our goal, we intend to gather your data soon in this spot on the website using the North American Menopause Society’s Questionnaire for symptoms and registering your blood work results if you defer HIPPA privacy regulations. We are currently reviewing software solutions for sifting the data we can gather to report to medical journals.

Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com

RADIO SHOW INTERVIEW WITH TS WILEY ABOUT HORMONES IN JULY

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In the month of July, I will be interviewing the author T.S. Wiley of the book Sex, Lies, and Menopause

every Monday morning from 9 am to 10 am asking her questions about hormones!

CALL DURING THE SHOW ON MONDAY 9 AM TO 10 AM CENTRAL TIME AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS FOR TS WILEY AND BIOIDENTICAL HORMONES FROM THE BOOK SEX, LIES, AND MENOPAUSE OR JUST GENERAL QUESTIONS THAT YOU WANT ANSWERED ABOUT HORMONES, RISKS, BENEFITS.... IT'S FOR YOU AND ABOUT YOU SO CALL NOW!