Dr Avrum Bluming

As a man, I can tell you what problem.

I can get hormones, and we ought to look at other hormones.

Thyroid hormone saves lives because people who are deficient in thyroid die prematurely, and thyroid hormone, which they take for the entirety of their lives, allows them to live a normal lifespan.

Similarly, cortisone, when used correctly, helps keep people alive.

John F. Kennedy was cortisone deficient.

He had Addison's disease.

And although we didn't know it when he was president, he was taking cortisone and that also kept him alive.

Somehow, estrogen hasn't been invited to the party yet.

And it isn't a mystery.

It is through the early 1990s up to, depending on which paper you read, 40% of eligible women, meaning peri and menopausal women, were given hormones.

And it worked.

And then in 2002, there was a report that came out first as a press conference, followed one week later as an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that said,

Hormones, which means estrogen for perimenopausal women who don't have a uterus, and estrogen and progesterone for perimenopausal women who do have a uterus, are dangerous.

They increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, and death.

Wow.

That's frightening.

And that was a study that has cost $1,000 million.

That's a billion, but when I say it is 1,000 million, it sounds even bigger to me.

And it made headlines around the world and it was headlined in the New York Times and doctors were afraid to prescribe hormones and women flushed their hormones down the toilet.

And everything I said about that conclusion, everything has been walked back by the people who said it.