Middle-aged Santa Fe women looking to escape menopause have a new local alternative.
TS Wiley, the self-described medical theorist who developed the Wiley Protocol, is moving the headquarters of her worldwide clinic across the street from Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Wiley Chemists will offer a hormone-replacement therapy technique that Wiley says allows women to have periods until they’re 90, but still feel 20 inside.
“When you fall apart at midlife, your watch is broken,” Wiley tells SFR. “The mainspring in your clock is useless. So what I do is remake those rhythms from the outside.”
Rather than injecting a standard dose of synthetic hormones, the Wiley Protocol bases natural doses on a person’s hormone cycle. Wiley says hormones work in rhythms and come in waves, similar to the cycle of the sun.
But she’s not a doctor, nor has her protocol been accepted in the medical community. A 2008 study by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine says the Wiley Protocol amounts to “potentially unsafe doses” of hormones and doesn’t follow proper ethical guidelines.
Still, Wiley points to the 400 doctors she says work for her clinics and ongoing studies at places like the University of Texas at Tyler.
As for her lack of credentials?
“Last time I checked, you don’t need a license to think in this country,” Wiley says.
Joey did a real hatchet job on T.S. Wiley. And he didn't do his homework.
First error - Wiley has no clinics, she licenses he intellectual property to compounding pharmacies (like Highlands in Albuquerque). Joey also failed to mention that she opened her own pharmacy in Santa Fe at 1626 Hospital Drive where all forms or compounded preparations are made, human and veterinary, as well as all of the usual pharmacy products and services. Curious omission given that he interviewed her at the pharmacy.
Second error - to say that the Wiley Protocol hasn't been accepted by the medical community is very misleading. Over 350 doctors in the US prescribe the Wiiey Protocol. She trains doctors in a 2-day seminar so jam-packed with information they receive 17 CME's for it (they only need 24 per year).
Big Omission - Wiley is the author of two widely read books published by major publishers: Lights Out (about the molecular biology of sleep) and Sex. Lies and Menopause. I believe Wiley actually gave Joey copies of both books.
If joey had done any research at all before writing this errant piece, he would know that there was a vigouorous rebuttal to Rosenthal by Dr. Taguchi published in the journal of the North American Menopause Society. Instead, he seems to have relied entirely in Wikipedia.
Full disclosure - I am T.S. Wiley's husband
And now let's discuss why the Wiley protocol might be nothing more than $moke and mirror$$:
A group of seven doctors issued a public letter to Somers and her publisher, Crown, in which they state that the protocol is "scientifically unproven and dangerous" and cite Wiley's lack of medical and clinical qualifications.[7][8] The Wiley Protocol has been criticized as unethical due to the start of a Phase II clinical trial with no Phase I, a lack of approval by an institutional review board, a lack of an experienced scientific investigator leading the trial, no inclusion or exclusion criteria and no evidence that the study population has been told that the research has not passed an ethical review,[6][9] as well as concerns over conflicts of interest regarding financial incentives.[6]