18/08/2026
Two weeks. That's all it took. One week I ran a half marathon and set a personal record. Two weeks later I couldn't stand up without wincing. Rusty joints, brain fog, sleep gone, and my LDL cholesterol climbing past 100 for the first time in my life. I was eating clean and lifting weights. I'm a physician. And still my body had been hijacked by something deeply hormonal.
That something was menopause, and it sent me deep into the research, where I found something that floored me.
For over 20 years, a black-box warning on hormone therapy shaped what doctors offered and what women accepted. It was based on a large 2002 trial. But when you look at who was actually in that trial, the average age was 63, on a formulation rarely prescribed today. The warning meant to protect women my age was, as I think of it, a recall notice addressed to someone else's car.
In late 2025 the FDA requested that warning be removed, and in 2026 the first relabeled products arrived. This is one of the biggest shifts in women's health in two decades.
My full article has the five questions to bring to your doctor.
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