Why Hormone Therapy Changed After 2002, What Women Should Know about Menopause #shorts #fda

Name: Why Hormone Therapy Changed After 2002, What Women Should Know about Menopause #shorts #fda
Uploaded: 2025-11-27T16:03:37+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how a 2002 FDA decision changed menopause treatment. After the AWARE trial, doctors stopped prescribing hormone therapy and…

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how a 2002 FDA decision changed menopause treatment. After the AWARE trial, doctors stopped prescribing hormone therapy and switched to SSRIs, reframing menopause as a mental-health issue rather than a hormone deficiency.

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Doctors stopped prescribing hormones to women. There was a large study called the AWARE trial, A W A R E, and they looked at prescribing habits amongst doctors. And prior to 2002, it was standard of care to put women who hit menopause on hormone replacement therapy to preserve their heart, reduce diabetes and protect their brain, protect their bones and help their symptoms. And after 2002, because of the FDA's misstep, they stopped prescribing hormones, started using, like SSRIs and antidepressants, things women wouldn't really care about anymore. In fact, we started treating, treating menopause like a mental illness versus a hormone deficiency.