Tag Archives: hormone replacement therapy

Post-menopausal hormone support and eye health

  Recent studies have demonstrated the benefits of estrogen support for several eye problems.  This is not a surprise.  Many of us offering post-menopausal hormone support in the past few decades have noted improvement in eye health with baseline estrogen support.  As is true with progesterone and testosterone, these hormones are not just about conception and pregnancy, or even female specific…

Menopausal HRT done right is NOT a risky proposition

     A recent review of the hormone literature supports what bio-identical literate doctors have been saying for years, that the bio-identical matches of hormone replacement (estrogen alone, or estrogen and progesterone) do not affect a woman’s risk of dying from any cause, or more specifically, from heart attack, stroke, or cancer.       Dr. Khalid Benkhadra, M.D. and his colleagues presented a…

Traditional HRT continues to disappoint

     Another big study speaks to what we’ve known for more than 14 years, that failing to use bio-identical progesterone with post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a risky proposition.  One would think that the medical profession would be getting the message about this, but it’s a slow process. The British medical journal Lancet* recently reported on a long term review…