Statistics show that incidents of breast cancer fell in 2003 by 6.7 percent in comparison with 2002. This is most likely the result of hormone replacement therapy decrease, which consists of equine estrogens and progestins.
Is it good? Of course ? less women died because of a deadly disease. Is it bad? Yes, because there is no widespread intention to stop using carcinogenic pills and switch to something else.
Companies cannot patent natural substances and hence make money from them, and in order to obtain a patent they need to modify the original molecule.
That?s what they did with estrogen and progesterone. And what did we get?Equine conjugated estrogens and progestins (not progesterone). Example ? Prempro.