Brigid Titgemeier argues that hormone replacement therapy alone can't fix menopause symptoms because it doesn't address the blood-brain barrier or gut lining. Both HRT and testosterone replacement therapy miss the point: nutrition and lifestyle changes often work better, but they're harder to prescribe than a pill.
Right now, there's a huge movement with all these OBGYNs and menopause doctors who are recommending, like, it's just hormone replacement therapy that you need. It's because you're in perimenopause or menopause, and I'm totally on board with that. But I feel like it's almost like going to the extreme where it's like, is that like, everything? Because if you just take hormone replacement therapy, like, that's not going to move the needle on your blood brain barrier or the lining of your gut that you're talking about if you're not doing the other things. So I'm interested on your take on that.
Yeah, well, I know that your, your community is mostly women, and so is mine, by the way, but I think that, like, these are the same issues that are occurring in men's health as well, which is that we have an epidemic of low testosterone. And so is the solution that every guy gets on testosterone replacement therapy. Is that the solution? Are we not going to have a conversation about the opportunities that exist for diet and lifestyle exercise to improve testosterone levels, make people feel better? And I think that, like, that's a. It's a parallel issue that's taking place and it's convenient and easy to recommend HRT and nothing else because once again, for the same reasons, it doesn't require you to dig into more nuanced, complex conversations about, you know, these other elements. Nutrition is complicated, and it's nuanced.
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