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.
it might be that the single most potent agent for women's sexual health at least as a woman is aging is actually HRT probably that estrogen has the greatest single but there is's a synergistic effect because if you use HRT and you use these medications because a different mechanism of action that's right
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you know yeah it might be that the single most potent agent for women's sexual health at least as a woman is aging is actually HRT yeah but there's a synergistic effect because if you use HRT and you use these medications because of different mechanisms of action that's right yeah they're accretive yes
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.