Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Were We Misled About Hormone Therapy_ | Hormone Replacement vs Optimization

4 Jun 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:35

Aaron Hartman, MD discusses how the 2000 Women's Health Initiative study shaped decades of fear around hormone therapy. The study tested whether hormone replacement reduced heart disease in women, but its findings were misinterpreted and led doctors to abandon bioidentical hormones despite limited evidence linking them to cancer.

Chapters

Since the Women's health initiative in 2000, when we were misled to think that bioidentical hormones would cause cancer. Cancer and things like that. Maybe we should start the conversation there. That's. That's a great. That's where we get off track. Yeah. So maybe I'll fill in historical gaps.
For you, but.
Tell us about the. The National Health nhs. Tell us what that was. Yeah. And then maybe we can together talk about what was so bad about it. Tear it down, because that's where. That's where it belongs. So the Women's Health Initiative was actually run. It was a study run by a.
Cardiolog, and the cardiologist's.
Goal was to determine if.
Hormone replacement therapy decreased.
Cardiovascular risk in women.