Dr. Renee Deehan—Why Everyone Should Care About Women’s Health
Longevity by Design
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The Importance of Hormone Replacement Therapy
The Women's Health Initiative was a very large study that looked to assess the impact of hormone replacement therapy on women and their risks of various diseases. There was a reported significant but very very slight modest link between estrogen and progesterone and so hormone replacement therapy and then breast cancer. The media kind of took this and ran with it before we had names for sensationalist headlines like clickbait. It really kind of demonized HRT and doctors became afraid of it.
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