What part of this explanation was the most shocking to you? Comment below.

Thank you for helping to spread this critical education which is shockingly absent in most GYN offices.

@heatherhirschMD

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Absolutely welcome!

Yazzzz! Thank you. I am tired of male and female doctors telling me I am causing myself harm.

Thank u again for spreading this extremely important information. What is being done in the medical world to increase the education of drs so they are aware of this?? As u know The majority of drs are against HRT and do not promote it. My Dr said to me oh you shouldn’t be on that…. 5 years max then get off…. I am educated on the subject but not enough to go head to head with a Dr. I’m very anxious for all drs to be educated in this…. Please!! Thank u again!!!❤

This is easily the most important KZread channel I watch, with a wealth of information so important to women. Thank you Heather, for all the time and energy you put into educating us. You explained this complex subject so well. We need a special l “LOVE” icon for your videos.

@heatherhirschMD

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Thank you so much! This means so much to me!!!!!

Good information. It seems to me that the WHI actually called a press conference in 2002 when they stopped the estrogen-progestin arm of the study and that the researchers actually overestimated the breast cancer connection by mis-applying CDC data in comparisons. I’m not sure this can be entirely blamed on the media. Here is the question I wish someone would answer about what has happened since: WHY do black box warnings about breast cancer and blood clots persist on ALL formulations of estrogen (even vaginal estrogen), contrary to evidence? Formulations matter. Additionally, WHY do the protocols most healthcare professionals follow for menopause ONLY recognize vasomotor and vaginal dryness as symptoms of menopause? Women report numerous other symptoms, and given estrogen’s characteristics and multiple functions in our bodies, it makes sense that symptoms would be highly variable and wide-ranging. All 4 of the healthcare providers I’ve seen, including a NAMS-certified one, made a point of telling me “brain fog” isn’t a menopause symptom. They also told me my musculoskeletal issues, which I knew were menopause-related, were not menopause symptoms. Estrogen improved all of my symptoms….except I’m still angry about the gas-lighting.

This was great content. What was most surprising to me was your perspective of our risk with getting cancer in comparison to the risk we may already be taking drinking wine daily or being overweight. Great info! Thank you

Thanking for explaining the study & now post review. Most surprising is purpose of the study…chronic disease & not menopausal symptoms

Thank you for all the important information you are empowering women with, cutting through the hype and the fear. I love taking deep dives into health and wellness topics that interest me, particularly women's health and longevity/healthspan. Your podcast and KZread channel are the best resources I've encountered, and I've explored many, down to journal articles, which can be interesting but can also take a long time to read and interpret, even with a medical background. I'm sharing your work with friends and clients because it is so well communicated and every woman should have this information. You are helping to normalize perimenopause and menopause and take it out of its black box of confusion and dismissal. Your personality and down to earth, whip -smart "girlfriend" approach really help. I hope you continue to have growing success. The world will benefit!

Thank you, Dr Hirsch! I also highly recommend Dr Louise Newson’s interview with Professor Robert Langer, who was one of the investigators of the WHI study. It is a fascinating podcast that helps lay persons (and professionals) understand this complex topic. It’s podcast # 097, titled “Trying to right 20 years of misinformation and hysteria about HRT” and can be found on the balance-menopause website.

@karengrant3468

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@C M I was looking up that podcast and there’s actually a podcast with Dr newsons and Dr Hirsch!! Thx for referencing this!

@cm1906

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@@karengrant3468 Yes! I’ve listened to the podcast with Dr Hirsch as well! Actually, there are two so far, featuring both doctors. An older one and a recent one. I love the Balance-Menopause website. It has such a wealth of evidence based information for women going through the menopause - or for anyone interested in this important topic. Best wishes. 😊

Such a great video. Thanks to your wealth of knowledge and information I’m on HRT which has changed my life and overall well-being. I only wish I started sooner. I advocate so much for HRT and I refer all my friends to your videos/podcast. Thank you!

@heatherhirschMD

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Thank you Karen! I hope we get to met up someday!

Thank you for this timely video. I wish my OB/Gyn would watch it!

Thank you!

Thank you 😊

thank you

Thank you so much for all your videos and information. I keep sharing them with my big sister who has finally gotten some vaginal estrogen and is contemplating going back on orals. She was one of those scared off by the WHI and has been quite defensive about talking about it with me. But she's making progress! Oh and just a friendly reminder to add the links to other videos. You often reference them and point, but the link isn't always there.

The thing that shocks me the most is that the vast majority of doctors and ob/gyn's dont know the science. I actually had my women's health doctor Tell me "hormone replacement therapy will kill you" literally those actual words came out of her mouth! I don't see her anymore and I found a doctor who prescribed to me and I had a complete cessation of all symptoms. I feel like my normal self again! And I'm in perimenopause not menopause. I can't imagine what it would have been like to have to go through all of this without hormones.

This was very helpful! I’m 60 and was officially menopausal at 51.5 - I am healthy and have no risk factors, except high cholesterol. Is it too late for me? Thanks

@heatherhirschMD

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No it’s not! I’d said don’t wait much longer :)

@Ayyeliki

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@Joanne, same scenario here and my (new) NAMS gyn just started me on HRT! Said “ the window is almost shut but not yet”, ha ha! Honestly, I’m sleeping better and no flushes, yay! Find a good MD quick, best of luck!

Can you provide the links to the videos you reference?

This sounds all fine and dandy, but what about women who don’t have healthcare that allows them to afford HRT? What then?

@tofugirl8299

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I hear you. I have a high deductible Healthcare plan and pay $237 for a months worth of combipatch.

If even the most toxic synthetic HRT preparations caused such little increase in risks, we literally have NOTHING to worry about. Also why is the focus solely on breast cancer and not on the massively reduced risk of osteoporosis, which has far greater morbidity and mortality and no good treatment? HRT also lowered the risk of bowel cancer, which has much worse survival than breast cancer.

They paid no regard to when the women's periods stopped, whether they were already on hrt and when they started hrt and when they may have stopped. They grouped ALL THESE DIFFERENT women and you cannot do that and then extrapolate the results to other different women. Aaargh!

Thankyou doctor. But still the most important question is not made nor answered and that is why do we have to take hormones similar to ours when there are hormones bioidentical exactly like ours, only for the benefict of BigPharma, not ours. Why do we have to increase even a 0.1% of risk just for Big Pharma to earn more money. What I have studied about estrogen is that it is a great hormone but that it has to be talen with progesterone. I'm talking of course about bioidentical hormones. Women live with both hormones in our bodies for many years with no side effects. The problem is not the hormones which are just like ours. Couldn't the problem be that premarin and provero use hormones which are not exactly like ours. Still it's confusing that you use sometimes progesterone when meaning progestines which are not the same nor have the same effects in our bodies. Please women tead Dr JonR. Lee books and dr. Platts', 2 different approaches to bioidentical replacement therapies, which I always prefer to that of Big Pharma. Just in case, I know that bioidentical hormones are also synthetic, but still they are like ours. And one more point is that the whi study is not the only syudy which concludes against big pharma hormones.

@rebeccacarraway480

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You need progesterone IF you have an intact uterus.

Oh but the study design WAS flawed based on the study goals. The design was unforgivable. Abysmally idiotic.