The Truth About HRT for Menopause

Name: The Truth About HRT for Menopause
Uploaded: 2024-07-31T16:00:57+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Truth About HRT for…

31 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Truth About HRT for Menopause" (created 2024-07-31) containing a spoken segment by a single speaker. The speaker discusses the Women's Health Initiative trials (2002 and 2004), noting widespread misinterpretation that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increased breast cancer and heart disease risk. They clarify the trials did not specifically examine initiating HRT at menopause, argue that starting estrogen within 10 years of menopause is associated with about a 40% reduction in cardiovascular mortality, state that Premarin alone was linked to reduced breast cancer risk, and criticize the resulting avoidance of estrogen and use of psychiatric drugs to manage menopausal symptoms.

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2002 and 2004.

Within 10 years of menopause.

About a 40% reduction in cardiovascular mortality.

Premarin (when used alone).

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But the Women's Health Initiative trial that was reported in 2002 and 2004, the general public, many doctors that were not scientific, thought that hormone replacement given to women in menopause increased the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. In fact, they were quite wrong. The study did not look at starting Premaritin, Provera, Premarin alone in menopause. They looked at starting it at women at any age. And if they started it within 10 years of menopause, there's about a 40% reduction in cardiovascular mortality. So that's a big number. And the Premarin alone had reduced risk of breast cancer, not increased risk risk. So that led to doctors sort of banning the use of estrogen, because they assume estrogen must be causing these things. It was, of course, wrong. And this letting women live with it, or giving them psychiatric drugs to manage symptoms of menopause.