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He states emphatically that the “everyday” system of progesterone was not tried and tested for its correlation to breast cancer and heart damage.

Besides, before WHI, HRT was a cycle treatment, given 10 or 12 days every month.

The use of According to Klaiber, if a different type of estrogen similar to the natural body cycle had been used, the results would have been vastly different.

He goes on to assert that HRT when administered in alternative methods than the “everyday” way, pushes up the safety factor and has positive impact on health.

He cited the example of the successful Nurses' Health Study, where women were given HRT at ages 40-50 and more so in intervals.

That research had clearly established a heart friendly impact of the treatment.

In response to Klaiber's criticism, Dr.

Nieca Goldberg, head of the women's cardiac care unit at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, said that his analysis was just old wine in a new bottle, minus any substantiation.

She added that for a more concrete understanding, perhaps more studies were needed in the HRT direction, a fact to which Klaiber also agreed.

He hopes that the ongoing study by the Kronos Longevity Research Institute in Phoenix will sufficiently prove that HRT is less harmfu...

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