Dr. Rachel Rubin
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first heard May 2025
last heard 22 Jun
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So progesterone is very important for this lining here.
If the lining of the uterus gets too thick with just estrogen, that can lead to problems.
But if you match it with progesterone, those problems go away.
It balances them out.
And so that's why you'll hear hormone therapy talked about estrogen and progesterone, just like the birth control pill your partner was on was an estrogen and a progestin.
There was a combination.
And also the history is kind of important here of why your mothers and grandmothers weren't given access to this medication and the stigma behind it.
In the late 90s, a lot of people were on hormone replacement therapies and they were seeing benefits.
They actually were all these observational studies that showed, wow, the heart disease is less and like this is...
During menopause.
And a billion dollars went into the NIH to study this in women.
And it was called the Women's Health Initiative.
It was thousands and thousands of people age 50 to 79.
They gave a hormone pill, like a birth control pill almost, to all of these women and they followed them.
And they stopped the study early in the early 2000s and they did a press conference.
And at this press conference, they said, we're shutting down the study early.
Hormone therapy causes cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.
Wow.
And overnight, a multibillion-dollar industry went to nothing.
Everyone was told, throw your hormones in the garbage.
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