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Add Gwyneth Paltrow to the list of people who tried not to take hormone therapy, but now does. 

Mixed in with questions about her favorite mascara and perfumes in a this & that newsletter this week, the actress and Goop founder said "I do" when asked if she takes hormone therapy. 

(NB: The article calls it “hormone replacement therapy”, which is actually what's given to women who go through early or surgical menopause. In a new effort to be more specific and correct in language, in this case, we are talking about “perimenopause or menopause hormone therapy”). 

Paltrow says: "I tried to take other routes, but it wasn’t worth the suffering. And after all the research I have done and the many cutting-edge MDs I have spoken to, I fee…