5 Reasons for Going on Hormones March 6th, 2008
Dr. Bernadine Healy can’t even count the number of women who’ve complained to her about how tough it is to make the decision about hormone replacement therapy.
“Women say, ‘Oh it used to be so simple. Now it’s so complex,’” says Healy, a cardiologist and former director of the National Institutes of Health. “And I tell them, ‘Yes, it used to be so simple because it was wrong.’”
This is what she means: Before 2002, it was practically standard operating procedure to put women on synthetic hormones as soon as they reached menopause. (“We were putting them in the drinking water,” jokes Healy.).
But that turned out to be not such a great idea. A study in 2002 found that hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, made women more vulnerable to heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer and blood clots. In droves, doctors yanked their patients off the hormones. Read more
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