A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video in which Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter argues that many people over 50 still suffer joint pain because they are not offered hormone replacement therapy (HRT). He asserts that misconceptions among providers and lingering regulatory stigma—citing the FDA’s removal of a testosterone black box warning—have limited patient access to HRT.
What's the real reason so many people over 50 with all the options out there are still living with joint pain?
Well, I think the real reason why people over 50 are living with joint pain is that they're not given the option. There's a smokescreen over hormone replacement therapy in this country and in particular, providers. Your family practice doctor, your urologist, your general surgeon, you know, your internist, your cardiologist, have all been sort of bad information about hormone replacement therapy and the effects that it has. Look, the FDA just removed the black box warning for testosterone and said that it does not cause heart disease.
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