Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why the smallest HRT dose won't protect your heart, brain, and bones long-term. You need higher doses and longer treatment to get those benefits, which fade once you stop.
So the smallest dose of hormone replacement to minimize your hot flashes and night sweats, not actually necessarily get rid of them 100% or slow down the aging process and the disease process, or get the benefits of hormone replacement, which is protection for your heart, your brains and your bones. That is not what the lowest dose, shortest duration does. You might need a little bit higher dose, and you definitely need a longer duration. Because here's the thing, as soon as you stop taking hormone replacement therapy, the benefits go away and those disease processes set back in. The aging process sets in because you are back in a full menopausal state.
