Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

A Quarter Century of Neglect in Women's Hormone Health | Hormone Replacement vs Optimization

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This is a conversational excerpt from a YouTube video discussing longstanding failures in women's hormone health care over the past ~25 years. The speakers describe persistent misinformation, inadequate treatment approaches, and clinicians' frustration treating predominantly female patients, characterizing the experience as harmful to a majority of the population.

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And so that has changed for almost a quarter of a century, how we deal with women's hormones to the detriment of over half of a population. It's. It's horrible. It's literally. We were just talking about this. I feel like we've both become medical feminists, like, in the process of treating predominantly women in my practice. And I think yours is the same. It's like you hear these horror stories over and over again and still, like, it's. It's better, but it's not good. And there's still misinformation, there's still misguiding. I feel like my patients often feel, sadly, like they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.