The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
You have to catch those women before they're far along into menopause. Again, I'm blown away by that fact. If I could hop in for a second, I I mean, I love the direction of this conversation because um I don't know if people realize how much science there is about the aging process.
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And that's why women come in, the first things they say when they're 50 is I hate my neck. And I think we jump to try to surgically correct it or to augment it with fillers or neuromodulators to keep the muscle from pulling down. But I think we have to have a talk about hormone replacement. You have to catch those women before they're far along into menopause.
For symptomatic perimenopausal women under 60, hormone replacement therapy reduces all-cause mortality.
The breast-cancer risk attributed to HRT in the original WHI trial was overstated and the timing window matters most.