Hotflash inc: Manic social media menoverse
Welcome to the Hotflash inc free weekend newsletter, where we try and figure out this thing called peri/menopause, support each other and take personal responsibility for how we navigate it.
• This week marked the circulation of a study presented as new, indicating that the antihistamine Zyrtec might be a good non-hormonal treatment for hot flashes. Except it was published in 2003. Also people in the comments got mad (because it wasn’t about HrT).
• Watch this Instagram Reel explanation of bioidentical hormones and then this one, and tell me how anyone is supposed to know what to believe if these two doctors and hormone specialists can be so far apart?
• Britain’s Menopause Doctor, Louise Newson, takes to Instagram to talk about hormone therapy for postpartum depression. Over in the US, ob-gyn and maternal fetal medicine specialist Dr Shannon M Clark calls in two perinatal psychiatrists to counter.
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