This website is designed and intended to provide information to the best of the author’s ability, regarding the hormonal control of the human body, the natural history of hormonal secretion and the management of hormonal imbalance.
The articles and notes herein are intended to assist the reader by expansion of the reader’s knowledge base, so as to enhance the reader’s understanding of hormonal matters, providing an information-platform which will facilitate discussion with healthcare providers (including functional medicine practitioners) and strengthen the reader’s position as an equal partner in his or her healthcare.
It is printed in BOLD so as to facilitate reading by older folk, such as myself, since seniors are the ones most likely to be interested in the content.

This website has no slant towards advertising of health foods, patent remedies, or recommended cures for difficult-to-deal-with diseases.
It has no affiliation with any clinic or other healthcare institution.
Although a few “Pundits” may be mentioned with respect to some particularly important discovery of theirs, this website does not necessarily embrace all utterances by such pundits.

Most importantly, this website is not intended and does not pretend, to supply advice regarding investigation, diagnosis, prognosis, lifestyle remedy or prescribed therapy; neither does it recommend or guarantee any specialist or specialty. Statements or opinions specified or implied herein should not be regarded as professional medical advice: healthcare advice should be solicited from the reader’s family physician, specialist and/or other professional healthcare advisor.

The author has retired from medical practice and is no longer licensed as a physician. He cannot therefore undertake history taking and physical examination.
He cannot requisition laboratory, radiographic or sonographic investigation.
He no longer supplies opinions regarding symptoms, diagnoses or therapy.
He no longer prescribes medications.
Therefore the only “assistance” available in this website is educational information: this website is not intended to facilitate auto-diagnosis or auto-therapy by the reader.
The reader should consult both an traditional medical doctor and a functional medicine professional and should not attempt self-remedy on the basis of information gleaned herein.

Notes:

The information herein is written and organised in the language (British English) of and according to the knowledge, experience and opinions of the author.
All are welcome to browse the content and to access the references provided, gratis.
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SPECIAL NOTE: re. FERNAND LABRIE, PROFESSOR

Dr Fernand Labrie (1937- 2019), Professor, chaired the Department of Anatomy and physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of Laval University for almost 4 decades.
He was in many ways the father of modern endocrinology, publishing 1340 + articles which have been cited more than 50,000 times. 

His many contributions to molecular Endocrinology include elucidation of the origin, metabolism and functions of DHEA, hypothalamic and pituitary hormones, therapy with anti-androgens in prostate cancer, the conversion of steroid precursors to active hormones (particularly DHEA) in peripheral tissues (intracrinology), and the development of novel anti-estrogens in breast cancer.

Following academic retirement, he founded Endoceutics, a pharmaceutical firm which developed intravaginal use of DHEA (prasterone) in the treatment menopausal symptoms, the association of prasterone and acolbifene (a nonsteroidal selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM)  for treatment of vasomotor symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis and breast cancer).

Without Dr Labrie’s input, DHEA would not have caught my eye, my interest in BIHRT would not have developed and this website would not exist.

G. A. Harry, MB,BS, LMCC, FRCSC, ABAARM (retired).

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