Two out of every three Alzheimer’s patients are women. Sit with that for a second, because medicine mostly hasn’t. For decades, brain health research treated dementia as a condition that simply happens to people. Nobody put weight on the massive, measurable sex gap that points straight at hormones. I’ve had this conversation with patients […]
A woman came to me last year drenched in sweat six times a night. Her doctor handed her a prescription for a low-dose antidepressant and sent her home. Nobody checked her fasting glucose. Her insulin levels went untested. Nobody asked what she was eating for breakfast. She was 46, and her doctor told her
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A patient sat across from me last month and told me her cardiologist called hormone therapy “too risky for her heart” at 54. She had gone through menopause three years earlier. No heart disease. No smoking history. Blood pressure under control. The answer was still no. I’ve had that conversation more times than I
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