158 - Pushing against social and political constraints on women’s health with Dr Heather Hirsch
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
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The Importance of Hormone Therapy
The invisibility of women in midlife has been thrust into the medical sphere as well. There is no special certification that you need to be able to prescribe these and arguably every internist family doctor OBGYN should be able to freely know how to do this. In the United States about five to ten let's just say ten making it an aggressive estimate 10% of women take hormone therapy when many many many many more women would benefit. Women are asking for their hormones back because of all this publicity about HRT why is that seen as such a terrible thing?
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