In July 2002, the well publicized Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study suggested increased rates of heart disease, strokes and breast cancer in women on hormone replacement therapy. Naturally women and their doctors were fearful of the risks, and in the next 10 years hormone replacement use dropped by 79 percent. Newer studies are showing that warning women off hormones was a mistake. We know that estrogen and other sex hormones are vital for many functions in a woman's body.
A study done by doctors at Yale and published in the American Journal of Public Heath, Sept 2013, evaluated the result of this widespread reduction in hormone use. According to their calculations, estrogen AVOIDANCE may have led to as many as 90,000 preventable deaths. The study found that estrogen therapy (ET) was actually associated with a REDUCTION in deaths from heart attacks and breast cancer. According to the authors: “Estrogen therapy in younger postmenopausal women is associated with a decisive reduction in all-cause mortality”
A new study supports this. Almost half a million women in Finland were followed over 15 years, and the results show that the longer the women were on estrogen replacement, the lower their risks for heart disease and strokes. In fact, all cause mortality (meaning death from ANY cause, including breast cancer) was reduced by up to 30%.
There is no need to suffer with symptoms of menopause due to fear of side effects of hormone replacement. Your individual risks are related to many factors including your age, whether you are using bio-identical or synthetic hormones and the delivery method of the hormones (for examples pills vs topical estrogen). Please ask us about your personal risks and the potential benefits, including improved memory, energy, mood, sleep and even younger looking skin. Click here for more information.
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