Menopause & HRT: The Study Everyone Got Wrong

Neither one of us got the talk. We got ice cream when our periods started and complete silence about what came after. So we are back on menopause, and this round we are going past hot flashes and into the stuff that actually shaped how a whole generation of women got treated.

E brings the research on hormone therapy and the study that made doctors pull women off it almost overnight. KayCee brings what it actually feels like to live in this body right now. Somewhere in the middle is the conversation most of us are only having in our heads.

In this episode:

• Why nobody prepared us for menopause when everybody prepared us for periods
• What a hot flash really feels like, described by someone who gets them
• Brain fog, the garage story, and whether it ever gets better
• The HRT panic of the early 2000s and what the numbers actually showed
• Peri, menopause, post: what the 12-month rule really means
• Premarin, Provera, and the fact that the original hormone pills came from pregnant horses
• Why women are trusting strangers online over their own doctors
• The time a doctor said "I don't believe in that," and the time they asked the husband instead of the patient
• Bone density, power lifting, and why muscle is doing more for you than you think

We are looking for a menopause specialist to come sit with us. If you know one, tell them Disrupt & Discuss is looking. Then send this episode to the woman in your life who is figuring this out by herself.

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