Hormone Replacement Therapy rocked the medical world when the U.S. National Institutes of Health halted its study on HRT because of increased heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer risk. And what did we expect of estrogens derived from animal sources (the urine of pregnant mares kept in the most inhumane conditions)?

The answer for menopausal women can be found in natural HRT. Jonathan V. Wright, MD, a Washington state physician began his odyssey away from horse estrogens in 1982 when a woman came to his office and requested natural hormones. He prescribed Premarin only to hear the woman say, "Do I look like a horse? I want the same hormones I had before this mess of depression and hot flashes started." Dr. Wright has said, "What we can tell a woman is that it's vastly safer to put in her body the same hormones that were in her body . . . than it is to put in horse hormones." The Seattle Times, Eran Karmon, August 21, 2002.