Navigating Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons

• Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer
• How she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer 
• What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift 
• How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the research
• The real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wrong thing
• Estrogen does not cause breast cancer — the truth is much more nuanced than this 
• When you don’t have estrogen, your body starts to deteriorate significantly 
• Women who are on hormone replacement and get breast cancer actually have better outcomes
• The same number of women die of a complication of a fracture as breast cancer each year, and hormones help protect the bones
• 2-3x more women die of heart disease than breast cancer and BHRT helps protect the heart
• We need to unlearn what we think we know about hormone replacement and learn the proper benefits

Resources We Mention

• The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer by Dr. Jenn Simmons
• Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris