{"id":23117,"date":"2025-03-03T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23117"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:26:26","slug":"what-hormone-therapy-can-do-for-menopause-and-long-term-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23117","title":{"rendered":"What Hormone Therapy Can Do For Menopause and Long-term Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anxiety around the treatment persists, but so does recent enthusiasm. Here\u2019s what experts want you to know.<\/p>\n

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At Dr. Monica Christmas\u2019s clinic these days, she sees two kinds of menopausal patients. The first, she said, is suffering from the symptoms associated with this life phase<\/a>, but is also wary of hormone therapy because she\u2019s heard there are health risks associated with it.<\/p>\n

The second kind of patient is almost the exact opposite: she may not have symptoms at all, but nonetheless is asking for hormones because she\u2019s heard they will make her healthier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe seem to like these extremes,\u201d said Dr. Christmas, the director of the Menopause Program and Center for Women\u2019s Integrated Health at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Prescription data reflects a persistent anxiety around the health risks: In a study published in September<\/a>, researchers found that only 5 percent of menopausal women used hormones in 2020 despite the fact that roughly 80 percent of women experience symptoms. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the flip side, in the last few years, a growing number of social media influencers<\/a> and celebrities, like Oprah Winfrey, have loudly endorsed hormone therapy, presenting it as a \u201cmagic elixir,\u201d Dr. Christmas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow there\u2019s this messaging that every woman who is menopausal should be on hormone therapy,\u201d she said. But women need more clarity around what hormone therapy can and can\u2019t do. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find our way back to the middle ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anxiety around the treatment persists, but so does recent enthusiasm. Here\u2019s what experts want you to know.At Dr. Monica Christmas\u2019s clinic these days, she sees two kinds of menopausal patients. The first, she said, is suffering from the symptoms associated with this life phase, but is also wary of hormone therapy because she\u2019s heard there are health risks associated with it.The second kind of patient is almost the exact opposite: she may not have symptoms at all, but nonetheless is asking for hormones because she\u2019s heard they will make her healthier.\u201cWe seem to like these extremes,\u201d said Dr. Christmas, the director of the Menopause Program and Center for Women\u2019s Integrated Health at the University of Chicago.Prescription data reflects a persistent anxiety around the health risks: In a study published in September, researchers found that only 5 percent of menopausal women used hormones in 2020 despite the fact that roughly 80 percent of women experience symptoms. On the flip side, in the last few years, a growing number of social media influencers and celebrities, like Oprah Winfrey, have loudly endorsed hormone therapy, presenting it as a \u201cmagic elixir,\u201d Dr. Christmas said.\u201cNow there\u2019s this messaging that every woman who is menopausal should be on hormone therapy,\u201d she said. But women need more clarity around what hormone therapy can and can\u2019t do. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find our way back to the middle ground.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23119,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23120,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions\/23120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}