Dr. Rachel Rubin
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first heard May 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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Yeah, it's a great question.
So hormone replacement therapy, which is a term that we used to use for hormones in menopause, it has a bunch of different names and everyone tries to change the marketing around it.
But hormone therapy in general is this idea of giving back hormones when you have a
Hot flashes, night sweats, osteoporosis, you know, sort of this over 50 crowd that has this declining estrogen and progesterone levels.
And so typically classic hormone therapy is estrogen and progesterone.
Now, again, taking just estrogen, estrogen grows things.
It helps your bone health.
It helps your hair, skin and nails.
It helps you not have hot flashes.
It helps you sleep better.
It can also grow the lining of the uterus.
And so if it gets thicker, thicker, thicker, there is worry over years that leads to endometrial or uterine cancer.
So the endometrium is the lining of the uterus.
So here I can... Okay, so this is a vagina.
And then...
The vagina is like a sock.
At the very end of the sock is a tiny hole, and that hole is the pinpoint opening of the cervix.
And that hole, if you go through that tiny, tiny hole, it gets to the uterus.
And the uterus is a cavity where we hold babies, where the lining comes out.
That's what period blood is, is the lining of the uterus here, which we call the endometrial lining.
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