11/10/2025
Fantastic news!!! Since 2002, there has been a black box warning due to a WHI study that’s scared everyone. So thankful new, high quality studies have evolved because women need hormones in menopause and should be supported! Always remember studies can be flawed. They need to be high quality, multi-centered, randomized and controlled. (Side note: If you take estrogen, make sure it’s always compounded.)
“Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, was widely prescribed, including to protect women from chronic diseases, especially heart disease, for decades. But its use plunged after a 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study found it could raise the risk not only of breast and ovarian cancer but also of strokes and other serious conditions.
“That study was misrepresented and created a fear machine that lingers to this day,” Makary said on Monday, adding it showed no statistical significance in the increase in breast cancer.”
