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iemanja

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12. There was a study some fifty years ago that found that HRT increased the risk of breast cancer

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:33 PM

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Its methodology and findings were flawed. For some time, women's advocates in the medical community have argued that women should have the option of HRT because of its benefits to mood, body changes, bone density, weight gain, hot flashes, etc... Doctors, particularly male doctors, have denied women that option. Women have had to fight to get HRT, and only certain specialist OBGYNs will prescribe it. RFK junior is an idiot, but he happens to be right on this ONE issue.

Actually, it's not just male doctors who refuse women HRT. The medical establishment in general knows nothing about menopause, so that when you go to a doctor with a complaint, they never tell you that it's a perimenopausal symptom because they don't even know. That happened with me. I had persistent migraines when I was perimenopausal, but they went away when I entered menopause. It would have been nice to know that at the time.

Here is a link to one, more recent NIH study on HRT: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11826161/

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Maru Kitteh

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and what is the "black box warring" on women's hormone replacement treatment that RFK junior is talking [View all] a kennedy Monday OP

He's delirious again. Dave Bowman Monday #1

The FDA Will Strip the Misleading Safety Warning From Hormone Therapy. Here's What This Means for You cbabe Monday #2

Thanks a kennedy Monday #5

Wow, so it's the broken clock being correct twice a day type of thing AZJonnie Monday #3

Video: demmiblue Monday #4

OMG!!!!!! a kennedy Monday #6

Short version, a very BADLY designed study scared women away from life-saving Maru Kitteh Monday #7

I KNOW, my Dr only let me be on it for 5 years......I'M STILL HAVING HOT FLASHES AND NIGHT SWEATS!!! a kennedy Monday #9

You are likely still able to benefit. 75 is no longer an automatic no. Maru Kitteh Monday #10

I have actually sat and cried over the injustice done to your generation of women, Maru Kitteh Monday #11

You can get biologicals on Amazon now womanofthehills Monday #14

OTC bioidentical hormone creams are cosmetic ONLY, and will not raise systemic levels Maru Kitteh Monday #18

Bio-identical hormones are available now womanofthehills Monday #8

To split hairs, natural homones were *extracted* from livestock urine, ovaries/testes etc. where they were present. eppur_se_muova Monday #17

There was a study some fifty years ago that found that HRT increased the risk of breast cancer iemanja Monday #12

I know, back in the day, my female PA told me, nope, ya can only have these for the next year and then it's over. a kennedy Monday #13

What else biological hormones help with womanofthehills Monday #15

Shut up. No, sorry, when I say that it's like back in the day when it was popular......but damn. a kennedy Monday #16

Go for the patch! It's safer than oral estrogen and SO EASY to do. Changed my life. Maru Kitteh Monday #19