Why Your Doctor’s Fear About Hormone Therapy Is Costing You Your Bones Think about how many women you know who were refused hormone therapy. Not because the science said no. Not because they were poor candidates. Because their doctor was afraid. Afraid of breast cancer, afraid of lawsuits, afraid of a 2002 study […]
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What the Lancet’s Menopause-Dementia Study Actually Tells Us, and What It Doesn’t Women develop Alzheimer’s disease at nearly twice the rate of men. Two out of every three Alzheimer’s cases are in women. And yet for most of the past two decades, women were told that hormone therapy, one of the most biologically
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Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease: The Outdated Fear That Is Still Costing Women Their Health I want you to think about how many women you know who have been told that hormone therapy cardiovascular risk is too high, full stop, no further conversation. Mothers. Sisters. Friends. Colleagues. Women who came to me after their
Your Hot Flashes May Be a Metabolic Problem, Not Just a Hormone Problem You’ve been told the same thing every woman in perimenopause gets told. Your estrogen is dropping. This is just what happens. Maybe try a low-dose pill. Maybe try an antidepressant. Hang in there. I’ve heard that story from women sitting across
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New Real World Data: HRT Is Effective and Safe for Most Menopausal Women “I’m scared of hormones. My doctor told me they cause breast cancer.” I hear this almost every day. Every time I do, I feel deep empathy and genuine frustration. The fear is understandable. But medicine spent two decades walking back the flawed
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Estrogen Loss Doesn’t Just Lower Your Hormones — It Rewrites Your DNA I’ve had this conversation thousands of times. A woman comes in after menopause: sharp, healthy-living, doing everything “right,” and suddenly she has high cholesterol. Or prediabetes. Or her blood pressure is creeping up for the first time in her life. She’s baffled.
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Perimenopause Nearly Doubles Your Risk of Poor Heart Health – Here’s Why Your period is irregular. You’re not sleeping. You’ve gained weight around your midsection despite eating the same way you always have. Your doctor says your labs “look fine.” But something is off, and you’re not imagining it. Here’s what mainstream medicine isn’t
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Don’t Wait: Why Starting Perimenopause Treatment Early Changes Everything Here is what I hear from new patients all the time: “Come back when your symptoms are worse.” Indeed, Indeed, I’ve heard that phrase more times than I can count. In each case, their OB-GYN had told them to come back when things got
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Menopause Is Inevitable. Suffering Isn’t. How to Treat Menopause Symptoms at Their Root Cause To start, let me tell you about the talk I have more than any other. A woman comes in, usually in her late 40s or early 50s, usually having been through at least one, sometimes two or three other
You Can Reverse Osteoporosis: The Complete Protocol for Women Who Want More Than a Prescription So your DEXA came back showing osteopenia or osteoporosis. Typically, your doctor handed you a bone drug and a calcium recommendation and sent you on your way. That is not enough. In fact, in many cases, it’s not
