Many women think they're past menopause once hot flashes stop, but low estrogen can still damage bones and vaginal health. A study shows some women lack enough estrogen protection even without symptoms, and hormone dosage matters for risk.
The common belief out there in the world is, for example, if a woman is having active symptoms such as hot flashes, for one thing, all you have to do is identify a dose that will eliminate the hot flashes and she'll be fine. And we did a study on that, actually. And what we learned is 50% of the women who said I'm doing fine did not have sufficient estrogen to protect their bones and their vagina. Well, what should we use as a standard? Well, how about, bottom line, we protect the bones and the vagina. We can measure that pretty well. And so those numbers are known and we trans, we translated those into what the hormone levels were to achieve that. And once again, 50% of the women who said I'm good did not have sufficient to protect their vagina and bones. And 25%, even though they said I feel good and didn't have symptoms of overdose, there were dosages that put them at risk for breast glandular cell proliferation.
