The Misguided Abandonment of HRT

The early days we're using some animal products like ground up sheep ovaries and some stuff from horses. And then we started using Premarin, which is a pill for hormone replacement therapy. And we knew in the early days that using any kind of estrogen plus progesterone, women had lower all cause mortality, they were less likely to die, they actually were healthier, they gained less fat, they had better quality of life. And prior to 2000, about 30% of women put on hormone replacement therapy when they went into menopause. And this was very good for society. And then in 2002, a paper came out called the WHI Study and it was grossly misinterpreted or misunderstood by doctors and the community was a very politically hot potato that suggested that HRT was not safe. And this led to a complete abandonment of hormone replacement therapy by doctors and patients in spite of decades of evidence that women live longer on hormone replacement therapy. And in my opinion, this was the biggest disservice to women's health care in the last century.