Menopausal hormone therapy
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What experts have said about Menopausal hormone therapy
6 statements · 3 positive · 2 negative · 1 mixed
Early hormone-replacement therapy may benefit menopause, while late initiation may harm.
“if the therapies were started too late, there was some evidence of some detrimental effects, perhaps. But if the therapies were started early enough, either in menopause or perimenopause, then there Were some beneficial effects observed”
Open the episode · Your Top Health Questions AnsweredListen at 1:09:47
Hormone therapy can improve sleep, mood, night sweats, and hot flashes
“Hormones are going to help with your for sure, your sleep, your mood, if you are experiencing some of the thermoregulatory problems like the night sweats and the hot flashes”
Open the episode · Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie EstimaListen at 1:22:13
Fear and misinformation made hormone-therapy prescribing a lost medical skill
“There was so much fear and misinformation 20 years ago about hormone therapy that it is a lost art. Doctors don't know how to write the prescriptions.”
Open the episode · Medical Whistleblower: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know Is Hurting You | Dr Rachel RubinListen at 5:39
Beliefs that menopausal hormones are dangerous reflect politics and poor science interpretation
“that Is all politics and bad interpretation of science”
Open the episode · Medical Whistleblower: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know Is Hurting You | Dr Rachel RubinListen at 12:41
Older hormone therapy showed no increased cardiovascular or stroke risk below age seventy
“below age 70, that type of hormone therapy, which we don't really use anymore, has no increased risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke”
Open the episode · Medical Whistleblower: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know Is Hurting You | Dr Rachel RubinListen at 28:28
Women should not have to wait twelve months without periods before considering hormone therapy.
“I think it's a disservice to women to make them have no period ovarian failure for 12 months, no estrogen, feel terrible before we'll allow them to have hormone replacement therapy.”
Open the episode · How Women Can Improve Their Fertility & Hormone Health | Dr. Natalie CrawfordListen at 5:58
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