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Is Menopausal Hormone Therapy Safe for Your Heart?
For more than 20 years, women were warned that hormone therapy could hurt their heart. Some of those warnings have since changed - so were we wrong, or are we now making the opposite mistake and calling estrogen heart-protective? The truth is more nuanced than either extreme.
In this video I break down why hormone therapy became so feared, what we now know about timing, oral vs. transdermal estrogen, and progesterone, and which benefits of estrogen have actually been proven versus what we still only suspect. I also give you my honest, personal take on where I land for the right woman, even…
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