premarin

Where do PMU Foal Orphans Come From?

Hormone Replacement Therapy

For women entering menopause who decide to take hormone replacement therapy, (HRT), doctors usually prescribe synthetics. The most popular one is called Premarin, and derived from Pregnant Mares' Urine (PMU), thus Pre-Mar-in, though other conjugated estrogens with similar names are used. These estrogens are often called “natural”, however, they are not natural to a woman's body. Medical evidence has demonstrated the increased risks of breast, uterine, ovarian and cervical cancer linked with these widely used “synthetic estrogens”. Premarin and the equivalent is very big business and most women are uninformed and their doctors don't educate them because most women wouldn't think to ask if the drug comes from a pregnant mare!

Inhumane Drug Factory Horse Farms

The pregnant mares' urine is farmed through the drug maker's factory farm. Many mares of breedable age whose fate is not the slaughterhouse, end up at Premarin Factory Farms. Each pregnant mare is hooked up to a machine which collects the urine used to make the estrogen replacement drug. Each mare is kept in a confining stall with their heads tied to prevent them from moving, exercising or lying down. They are given a minimum amount of water to keep the estrogen hormone concentrations as high as possible. Each mare spends 10 months of her 11 month gestation, hooked up to a painful urine collection catheter. They get two weeks off to foal their baby but the death rate of the foals is about 40%. The mare is immediately bred again upon her next heat, 10-12 days after her foaling and any surviving foal orphan, without enough colostrum from the minimal nursing, are usually sold to slaughter. Let's end the PMU foal orphans once and for all!

Hormone Replacement Alternatives

Bioidentical hormone therapy, often called “bioidenticals” has been effective at relieving the symptoms of menopause and are a true replacement. They are designed to be molecularly “identical” to our body's production of these life sustaining hormones. Bioidenticals are derived from plant extracts and are obtained from a compounding pharmacy. Not all doctors are familiar with this type of hormone replacement therapy. If you choose to use bioidenticals, it is best to find a physician who specializes in this type of protocol.