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Hormone Therapy Bone Density: The 137,484-Woman Study Your Doctor Hasn’t Mentioned Yet

Hormone Therapy Bone Density: The 137,484-Woman Study Your Doctor Hasn’t Mentioned Yet I hear the same version of this conversation over and over. A woman comes in at 52 or 53. Her doctor ran a DEXA scan, told her bones looked “a little thin,” handed her a calcium supplement, and sent her home. Nobody mentioned […]

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Hormone Therapy Dementia Risk: The Largest Study Ever Finally Puts the Fear to Rest

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Hormone Therapy Dementia Risk: The Largest Study Ever Finally Puts the Fear to Rest You’ve been told that hormone therapy dementia risk is real, that HRT causes dementia, that women who take hormones are gambling with their brain health. That fear has been handed to women since the early 2000s, and I have

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Perimenopause and Heart Risk: It’s Not About the Number on Your Scale

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Perimenopause and Heart Risk: It’s Not About the Number on Your Scale “My weight hasn’t really changed, but everything feels different.” I hear this almost every week, and every time, I know exactly what we’re going to find. The woman sitting across from me is in her late 40s or early 50s. Her clothes

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Hot Flashes and Your Heart: What the Newest Hormone Therapy Data Finally Gets Right

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Hot Flashes and Your Heart: What the Newest Hormone Therapy Data Finally Gets Right I’ve had the same conversation more times than I can count. A woman in her 50s sits across from me, miserable: hot flashes every two hours, no sleep, joint pain, mood swings that have her convinced something is seriously

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Testosterone Therapy Women: 10 Years of Real Results

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Testosterone Therapy Women: 10 Years of Real Results I’ve been talking about testosterone therapy for women for years. For most of that time, the response from conventional medicine was somewhere between skeptical and dismissive. “There’s no FDA-approved testosterone for women.” “The evidence is not there.” “It only helps with libido.” These are the things women

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HRT Bone Density Women: What 137,000 Patients Tell Us

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HRT Bone Density Women: What 137,000 Patients Tell Us The conversation about HRT bone density in women should have been happening years ago. Instead, women have been leaving their doctors’ offices with advice to take calcium and do weight-bearing exercise. That advice is not wrong. It is completely insufficient. A March 2026 study

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Menopause Sleep Quality: Why It Fails and How to Fix It

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Menopause Sleep Quality: Why It Fails and How to Fix It I’ve watched menopause sleep quality become a crisis that conventional medicine treats like an inconvenience. A woman comes in. She hasn’t slept through the night in two years. She’s exhausted, irritable, and her concentration is gone. She went to her primary care

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Does Hormone Therapy Protect or Harm Your Brain? Here Is What the Latest Research Actually Found

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Does Hormone Therapy Protect or Harm Your Brain? Here Is What the Latest Research Actually Found “Won’t hormones increase my risk of dementia?” I hear this constantly. Women who would very likely benefit from hormone therapy for their brain health hold back because they have absorbed a vague but powerful fear: that estrogen will

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Your Gut Bacteria Are Running Your Hormones: Here Is What That Means in Menopause

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Your Gut Bacteria Are Running Your Hormones: Here Is What That Means in Menopause You have probably had the menopause conversation centered on your ovaries. Declining estrogen. Fluctuating progesterone. Hormones going off a cliff. What that conversation almost never includes is your gut microbiome and the direct role it plays in regulating your

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Why Your Doctor’s Fear About Hormone Therapy Is Costing You Your Bones

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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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