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[quote=Anonymous]It’s only been in the last hundred years that women have reasonably lived longer than about 10 years after menopause. For those saying estrogen is not natural, it’s actually not natural for us to survive much longer without it. But with increased life expectancy now women are living almost as long without their estrogen reserves as without if you’re living 40 or 45 years past menopause.

Long-term follow up from the women’s health initiative shows that estrogen only hormone replacement therapy actually ended up lowering breast cancer for those women. You can read it yourself -just Google it’s on breast cancer.org.

I’m not saying to go into replacement therapy blindly, but it kind of baffles me that people will take antidepressants, which has all kinds of long-term and short-term side effects, in a world where we have greatly increasing dementia rates. There are studies linking anti-depressants with increased risk of dementia. That’s not to say everyone should just get off antidepressants, but we tend to accept blindly certain drugs, don’t question our relationship with alcohol or processed foods, and then completely crap on estrogen, which helps a lot of women, and is a lot more natural than other crap you are putting in your body, and has a lot of compelling research showing the benefits outweigh the harms for many women.

Breast cancer is very common. Many of us posting will get breast cancer whether or not we do HRT. Fortunately, there are a lot of new treatments and the outlook for breast dancer is much better.

But we also have to look out for our heart health, bone health, and brain health. [/quote]

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