Nonsense. Premarin has been on the market for almost 50 years now, and has helped literally millions of women not only stay healthy, but live longer. My mother started taking is in 1964. Her grandmother started taking it in 1965 and remained on it until she died at the age of 94. My grandmother (now 80) has been on it since the 1970s. All of the women in my family have had hysterectomies because of a genetic tendencies toward massive fibroids.

My mother, at the age of 68 has the same bone mass as I do at 46. Her heart health is perfect for someone fifteen years younger than she is. 

This drug has been tested, retested and used with excellent results for more decades than I’ve been on this earth. The study that everyone likes to scream about was a short term statistical analysis done by giving women, some of whom had had NO hormones in their bodies for up to thirty years. That study was also on the combine estrogen/progesterone  HRT which had only been in use for a short time. When very preliminary results reached the newspapers the myth was complete and the panic started. 

It’s all nonsense. That study has been completely debunked and even the authors admit that mistakes were made and the results should never have been released. My own doctor is furious about the panic. Many of her patients now risk an early death because some utter nonsense was published as the "truth".

Incidentally, plant hormones are still  hormones. They act on your body in an identical manner. The only difference between a drug manufactured in a controlled manner and something from a health food store is that I KNOW what dosage of the drug I’m getting.