Rethinking Women’s Health And HRT

Name: Rethinking Women’s Health And HRT
Uploaded: 2025-09-22T12:01:10+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok advocating that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should be reconsidered and offered routinely to women in…

22 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok advocating that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should be reconsidered and offered routinely to women in menopause. The speaker states that HRT was wrongly abandoned after studies around 2000–2004, claims this decision harmed women (shortened lifespans), lists menopause-related issues (vaginal laxity, urinary incontinence, dryness, sexual function), and urges patients to discuss treatment options with their providers.

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I really think about patients that are going through hormone replacement, which I feel that every woman who's in menopause should consider hormone replacement. A big disservice to our women's health in the last 100 years. Probably the biggest one was we stopped using hormone replacement as a routine in women in menopause. That was a standard of care. And this study came back in 2000, 2004, and sort of shot that down. It was totally misunderstood. Now we're understanding that we should not have abandoned that practice. They subjected a lot of women a shorter lifespan. Hormone replacement therapy is step one, then, based on the condition vaginal or febrile orgasm? Is there vaginal laxity? Is there urinary incontinence? Is there dryness? There are solutions for all these things that can lead to a better quality of life. Potentially better relationships just make you feel more competent. So don't be afraid to ask your provider about those things.