I want to trust my gynecologist, truly I do. I’ve known her for years and our kids went to school together and I know that she genuinely cares about women and wants what is best for them. But I am just haunted by the times over the years when she and other doctors have suggested hormone replacement therapy for one thing or another. One doctor even wanted me to try it when I was in my 20′s!
The evidence continues to mount that hormone replacement therapy is seriously bad for your health, (but seriously lucrative for the pharmaceutical companies that make it and the doctors who prescribe it and then have to treat the side effects). H/T to Women’s Space for flagging this story:
Oestrogen hormone therapy, a treatment for some symptoms of menopause, shrinks women’s brains, new research shows.
Elderly women who took oestrogen pills as part of the Women’s Health Initiative clinical trial experienced a slight drop in the size of two brain areas important in memory, compared to women on a placebo.
The decrease could explain a previously documented connection between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and dementia, as well as other less severe forms of cognitive decline, says Susan Resnick, a clinical researcher at the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the study.
Hard to place much faith in those who perpetrated this horrendously unhealthy ‘medicine’ on women.
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What does it matter if HRT shrinks women’s brains. More importantly HRT is claimed to make women’s lives so much better that I’m sure a little brain shrinkage won’t matter. After all women have smaller brains and less intelligence than men do they not? Note: this is not intended to be serious – because the fact HRT does not help women but instead causes many serious side effects can be ignored as can negative effects on women’s brains.
Remember the only thing that is really important is men’s health and whether or not drugs detrimentally affect men’s well-being. Women are sub-standard according to patriarchal medicine which is why we are bombared with so many drugs including HRT.
Under patriarchy, women are just vaginas and uteruses surrounded by excess tissue (women) Mormon doctrine says that “god” chose men for the priesthood and women most important job is to give birth to males! (GAG!)