If you prescribe compounded medications, you’ll want to be aware of current threats to patient access to those drugs. Here’s the skinny – and what you can do to push back against regulatory overreach, bad science, and general misinformation about compounded therapies.
Compounded hormones: The threat continues
Since announcing in 2020 that it would base its next steps on compounded hormones in part on a
Here’s a scary fact (based on research out of Mass General Brigham): If a woman has early menopause, the later she starts hormone therapy, the greater her risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
Quoth one of the study’s authors:
“We found that the highest levels of tau, a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease, were only observed in hormone therapy users who reported a long delay between age at menopause onset and their initiation of hormone therapy.”
Said another, a bit more bluntly, “When it comes to hormone therapy, timing is everything.”
A new study out of the Mayo Clinic (with a partner in South Korea) found that low-dose naltrexone seems both to work just great for combating the symptoms of fibromyalgia. It was already used off-label for that purpose, but the authors wanted to add a dose of science — to “systematically assess the current evidence.”
Voila! In looking at the studies out there, they found that LDN helped manage the symptoms of fibromyalgia with “no severe adverse events were reported.”
April means women’s health, and we’re all about that — we’ve got a great new webinar with pharmacist Baylor Rice talking all about the best over-the-counter supplements and nutraceuticals to help deal with women’s health and hormone issues, especially when it comes to menopause. Learn about supplements such as I3C, chasteberry, and DIM and how they could play into your overall hormone health.
Attend live on Wednesday, April 12 (2 to 3 pm EDT) to share your questions and thoughts; there’ll be a Q&A at the end of the webinar.
Or watch it anytime — register (it’s free!) and we’ll send you a link to the recording and slide show right after the webinar ends.
About Baylor: Baylor Rice R.Ph., FIACP, was the owner of South River Compounding Pharmacy for over 24 years and is now the clinical liaison
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