"Dr. Lindner graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1984 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He entered a psychiatric residency but soon realized that psychiatry was committed to an insupportable pharmaceutical ""diagnose and drug"" model. He resigned after a rotating internship and became a general medical officer and flight surgeon in the US Air Force. After service in Izmir, Turkey and Lowry AFB in Denver, he left the Air Force in 1989 and took a position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the chief physician for the employees and families of Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas corporations in that country. He spent ten years there. He had did not realize that there was an alternative to pharmaceutical general practice until he returned to the US and was introduced to bioidentical hormone replacement by Dr. Sandra Lane. Dr. Lindner has attended many seminars and courses educating physicians about BHRT. He has read the works of most of the prominent practitioners in the field. Most importantly, however, he has reviewed hundreds of scientific studies in the course of his own research. He has tried and failed to find any evidence that balanced hormone restoration has any risks that could possibly outweigh the well-known benefits. He is continually amazed at the amount of research that shows the importance of optimal hormone levels, and that invalidates the current conventional approaches to diagnosis and replacement. He has seen hormone restoration transform the lives of hundreds of his clients to an extent unimaginable with conventional pharmaceutical medicine. Aging and Hormones--The Big Picture Aging is not supposed to be good for us; it's Nature's way of killing us! Aging is a preprogrammed process of destruction. The reduction in our hormone levels is one of its mechanisms. As our various tissues deteriorate, so do our endocrine glands and their feedback control systems. As a result, our bodies cease to regulate our hormones for optimal health. Eating right and exercising will help maintain better levels of some hormones, but can't stop the age-related hormone losses. Essential hormones that build tissues and improve immunity (DHEA,

Testosterone, growth hormone) begin to disappear after age 25 and by age 80 have been reduced by 50-80%. Progesterone in women starts to decline at age 30 and essentially disappears when periods start to become irregular in the perimenopause--this is probably a significant factor in the rise in breast cancer at this age. Estradiol levels drop 90% at menopause. Thyroid hormone production and sensitivity decline with age. Insulin production and sensitivity decline leading to diabetes. The truth is that we are imperfect and deteriorating biomolecular machines. Even if we are healthy, we cannot trust our bodies to maintain optimal hormone levels after age 25. By the age of 50, we've already suffered 20+ years of hormone deficiency.

The conventional view on aging and hormones is that the loss of hormones is adaptive–helps us to live longer. In this view the persistence of youthful levels of hormones would cause more heart attacks and cancers as we age. So losing our hormones is good for us!?! Notice that this fits nicely with the pharmaceutical corporations' agenda: Don't replace your hormones; instead take patented drugs for every symptom and disorder. That's exactly why this view persists in spite of the evidence. One example: How many doctors know that higher testosterone levels help prevent heart attacks in men? How many doctors know that cholesterol levels can be significantly reduced by improving a patient's thyroid hormone levels within the ""normal"" range?

Heart attacks, autoimmune diseases, some cancers, etc. occur years after hormone deficiencies begin and occur more often in people with lower hormone levels. If higher hormone levels were bad for us, then studies of balanced bioidentical hormone replacement should reveal rapid and obvious increases in all kinds of problems. However, such studies show only the expected benefits and no proof of harm!! The known deleterious effects of non-bioidentical hormone-like drugs do not apply to bioidentical hormones, of course, unless proven otherwise.