Praise for
Estrogen Matters:
"I hope Estrogen Matters draws enough attention to counter the fears and misinformation about HRT that so many women, and their physicians, still hold." ― Phyllis Greenberger, MSW, former President and CEO of the Society for Women's Health Research
“Well written, insightful,
and hard hitting, Estrogen Matters successfully rebuts the
billion-dollar, government-led study known as the Women’s Health Initiative,
which claimed that hormones for post-menopausal women are harmful. That study
was wrong. It turns out estrogens do matter for women’s
health.”—Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine, Yale School of
Public Health and Yale Cancer Center
“If you’re one of the many menopausal women who avoid HRT to treat your symptoms because of all the scary headlines, this book is a must-read.”— Jennifer Ouellette, author of Me, Myself and Why
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About the Authors
AVRUM BLUMING, MD
Avrum Bluming received his MD from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He spent four years as a senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute and for two of those years was director of the Lymphoma Treatment Center in Kampala, Uganda. He organized the first study of lumpectomy for the treatment of breast cancer in Southern California in 1978, and for more than two decades he has been studying the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy administered to women with a history of breast cancer. Dr. Bluming has served as a clinical professor of medicine at USC and has been an invited speaker at the Royal College of Physicians in London and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He was elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians, an honor accorded to only five hundred of the over one hundred thousand board-certified internists in this country.
CAROL TAVRIS, PhD
Carol Tavris received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan. Her books include Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), with Elliot Aronson; Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, and The Mismeasure of Woman. She has written articles, op-eds, and book reviews on topics in psychological science for a wide array of publications — including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the TLS — and a column, “The Gadfly,” for Skeptic magazine. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and has received numerous awards for her efforts to promote gender equality, science, and skepticism.
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HRT: The Evidence
· There is no current way to prevent or reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia—except estrogen.
· HRT is the most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, vaginal dryness, and loss of sexual desire—symptoms that can last an average of seven years. Yet many women do not realize that heart palpitations, joint and muscle aches, headaches, bladder problems, and depression are also often symptoms of menopause, which HRT can alleviate.
· There is no evidence to support the current medical advice to take HRT at the lowest dose for the shortest period of time.
· Seven times as many women die of heart disease as die of breast cancer annually. In fact, heart disease, not cancer, is the leading cause of death among breast cancer survivors, and HRT can decrease that risk by 30 to 50 percent.
· Women taking HRT live, on average, several years longer than those not taking it.
· As many women die annually following osteoporotic hip fracture as die of breast cancer, and HRT can cut this risk in half.
· Most studies have found that estrogen does not increase the risk of breast cancer, and it can often be given safely even to women who have had breast cancer.
· Taking hormones in menopause does not cause weight gain, a common bodily change in midlife. On the contrary, women on HRT tend to lose weight.