Dr Avrum Bluming

There are over 35 major symptoms, including heart palpitations, that respected cardiologists I work with

aren't aware of even today.

And it's obviously all the genitourinary symptoms and the loss of libido and painful sexual intercourse, even if you fake it and decide you will try it, and the brain fog, which

is devastating and it affects 80% of women between the ages of 45 and 55.

And it's significant.

And it lasts a median of 7.2 years, not a couple of months.

And for women of color, it lasts longer than that.

And the single best treatment

is estrogen, which works in close to 100% of women.

And it's so interesting, the study that we spoke about, the Women's Health Initiative that first came out as results in 2002, said in 2003,

that estrogen has no effect on a woman's quality of life.

So not only did it cause, but it doesn't, heart disease and breast cancer and death.

It doesn't even help symptoms.

And that was a headline story also in the New York Times.

And when you read that article, which obviously I've read very closely, this was a prospective double-blind randomized study.

And the authors write in the article, we knew that menopausal women that were symptomatic would know within a week or two…

If they were getting a sugar pill and not the estrogen.

And so we intentionally did not admit symptomatic women to the study.

And they concluded by the article by essentially saying, and these women who had no symptoms had no improvement in the symptoms they didn't have if they got estrogen rather than placebo.

But the headline didn't say that.