🔥 Hormone therapy, what makes this worse + some randoms for you
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🕰️ HISTORY – Fun fact I found this week: the first kind of hormone therapy was made from dried and powdered cow ovaries. Produced in 1899 by Merck & Co, it was called Ovariin and listed in Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica the same year as a treatment option for “female weakness”. This was decades before the first real menopause hormone therapy, which arrived with the discovery, isolation and commercial production of estrogen. That all came to a head in 1942 at Ayerst Laboratories (which eventually became Wyeth, later bought by Pfizer) and led to the introduction of Premarin. Made from pregnant horse urine, Premarin is still on the market today – although many doctors prefer transdermally delivered, bioidentical options. Ovariin, however, is not, although I haven’t yet turned up the rest of that story. Read more in the original manual and see it here:
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