The Truth Behind Hormone Replacement Therapy & Breast Cancer Risk

The stigma of hormone replacement therapy that it may increase your risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer. It carries from a very poorly designed study in the 1980s that didn't even use bioidentical hormones and showed a slightly increased risk of breast cancer in patients treated with synthetic estrogen. Now, it was a very low sample size, and, in fact, that study itself has been debunked multiple times. It's kind of like the whole mercury thimerosal additive in our vaccines. You know, that guy in the 90s, that dude actually went to prison for falsifying his data. I'm not going to say that they falsified the data, but they came pretty close to it. And so it really did a solid disservice in the hormone replacement industry. It painted hormone replacement with this sort of negative light. And what we've found over the last 10 to 15 years is that hormone replacement therapy is absolutely beneficial and protective against things like heart disease. It does not increase the risk of prostate cancer, Although if you have active prostate cancer, we would really need to know about that before we started treating you with hormone replacement therapy, similar with breast cancer. But there are multiple studies that are being performed even now, one on prostate cancer and one on breast cancer, where they are using bioidentical hormone replacement therapies to suppress and treat these types of cancers. The most popular type of breast cancer treatment actually involves hormone replacement. So these types of treatments have shown that hormone replacement therapy is safe and effective and that there's no reason for us to suffer through something like menopause and all of the problems of hypogonadism or low hormones when we have technology available which can simply and easily replace our hormones.