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157. Hormone Pellet Therapy for Menopause: The Advantages That Critics Ignore
Your heartbeat decides how much estradiol you get, and critics call that unpredictable.
After weeks of discussing FDA approved alternatives to the patch, I'm turning to the one option that isn't FDA approved at all; the one that respected physicians attack hardest.
Pellet therapy has been around since the 1930s, longer than anything else on the market.
The loudest criticism is that pellet levels can't be relied on. I'll tell you what actually governs the release, why a faster heart rate giving you more hormone isn't the flaw everyone assumes, and what the patch does over two and a half days…
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