CATEGORY: Stuff in the ‘FDA’ Category


The Secret Female Hormone

Dr. Maupin discusses her new book, The Secret Female Hormone: How Testosterone Replacement Can Change Your Life We are very excited today to talk about something that we’ve been working on for the last two years. Dr. Brett Newcomb and[...]
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Off-label Use of Medicines as it Relates to Testosterone

The Federal Drug Administration regulates testosterone as a treatment for symptoms of menopause. Download the transcription of this podcast. Episode 52 of the BioBalance Healthcast features a conversation about the use off-label medicines and how that relates to treating symptoms[...]
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Testosterone and the FDA

The Federal Drug Administration regulates testosterone as a treatment for symptoms of menopause. Download the transcription of this podcast. Episode 51 of the BioBalance Healthcast begins a discussion of how the Federal Drug Administration—or FDA—regulates drugs, and in particular, testosterone[...]
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Challenges facing Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

There are several forces working against the success of bio-identical hormone replacement for women, which break down into three areas: The FDA/U.S. Government’s bias toward drugs made by pharmaceutical companies and drugs that benefit men; MDs, and to a lesser[...]
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The Women’s Health Initiative

All Estrogens are not the same and Provera (progestin) is the real bad guy. The Women’s Health Initiative, (WHI), is a study released in 2001, and is a good example of how the government skews data to support their cost-cutting[...]
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