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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s only been in the last hundred years that women have reasonably lived longer than about 10 years after menopause[/b]. 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]

This is inaccurate.  If women didn't die in childbirth, then they would more often survive their husbands and live decades past menopause.

"In England in the 13th–19th centuries with life expectancy at birth rising from perhaps 25 years to over 40, expectation of life at age 30 has been estimated at 20–30 years,[159] giving an average age at death of about 50-60 for those (a minority at the start of the period but two-thirds at its end) surviving beyond their twenties.

Life expectancy increases with age already achieved.

The table above gives the life expectancy at birth among 13th-century English nobles as 30–33, but having surviving to the age of 21, a male member of the English aristocracy could expect to live:

1200–1300: to age 64
1300–1400: to age 45 (because of the bubonic plague)
1400–1500: to age 69
1500–1550: to age 71

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_vs._other_measures_of_longevity[/quote]

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