Why create a foundation
Funding essential research
The contempt for the hormones of femininity is responsible not only for needless suffering, but for an assault on what is most precious in life: our dignity.
Dr. Sylvie DemersWe cannot stress enough the importance of sound clinical research on sex hormones and bio-identical female hormone therapy for the well-being, health and dignity of women. After long reflection on how to fund these projects, creating a foundation emerged as one option — other forms of funding are also under study. For now, everything remains to be done.
That path runs up against certain realities, including the two below.
- 1Bio-identical female hormones cannot be patentedWhere medical research is largely funded by pharmaceutical companies, a non-patentable molecule — not exclusive to any one company — has little chance of being funded: the benefits would mostly accrue to competitors, who would not have borne the cost of the research. The same holds for makers of natural products.
- 2Numerous conflicts of interest are at playThis concerns Dr. Demers far more. She has often observed that women well treated with bio-identical female hormone therapy stop several of their medications and natural products: they simply no longer need them. Let us be frank: the institutionalized fear of female hormones pays off for many — the “industry” of perimenopause and menopause supports a great many people.
Its missions
The foundation’s main mandate would be to seek funding for research on sex hormones (or their precursors) — research whose ultimate aim is judicious use of bio-identical hormone therapy, female and male alike, for the prevention and treatment of various health problems.
- →Fund researchFund the Centre’s three research projects, and any future project approved by the foundation.
- →Award grants and prizesAward grants — and eventually prizes — to associated researchers who submit projects that fit the foundation’s mission.
- →InformPlay an important role with the media, with particular emphasis on championing female hormones and on critical, credible information about today’s issues in women’s health.
