How Long Should You Do Hormone Therapy?

Name: How Long Should You Do Hormone Therapy?
Uploaded: 2024-08-05T12:01:08+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how hormone therapy treats menopause symptoms using testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone together. The therapy protects bone…

5 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how hormone therapy treats menopause symptoms using testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone together. The therapy protects bone density and heart health, and may lower breast cancer risk. The key question: how long to stay on it. Some doctors recommend lifelong use, but evidence on longevity remains unclear.

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Testosterone is your dominant hormone when you're pre menopause, 20 times more than estrogen. We're using hormone replacement therapy to help with vasomotor symptoms. It also help with bone density and cardiovascular risk protection and reduce breast cancer. We would use testosterone and estrogen and progesterone. The question is how long to use that. Some proponents would say for the rest of your life. Is there a time that you really would want to be back in menopause and having the associated weight gain and mental issues and mental fogginess that occur with it? We don't know about longevity for sure, but it does appear to enhance the duration of healthy lifespan.