What I’ve learned about hormone therapy

5 years navigating the great divide

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Five years ago, I launched Hotflash inc with a single newsletter. I was scared to even say the word menopause to the 200 people I asked to be on my initial list,, let alone ‘hormone therapy’. But I knew the information out there wasn’t good enough. It wasn’t clear, it wasn’t balanced — and it definitely wasn’t helping.

Since then, I’ve interviewed more than 150 experts, heard from thousands of women, reviewed so many studies, all while experiencing and struggling with it firsthand.

And after all that, here’s what I’ve learned about hormone therapy.

1. Hormone therapy is not the answer, but it can be an important one

For some women, hormone therapy is life-changing. When I met UAE changemaker Shelley Frost – a harpist and founder of The Fridge Entertainment – a few months ago, she told me it was “like flicking a switch.” She went from sleepless a…