Welcome to Menopause Taylor on Insight Timer.
I'm Dr.
Barbara Taylor,
A gynecologist on a mission to give women the menopause education they need.
I want to address a very hot topic.
Hormone replacement therapy.
Verses.
The fact is that your own body produces estradiol.
For two reasons.
Reproduction and youth.
From the time of puberty until the time of menopause,
Your ovaries produce gobs and gobs of estradiol.
Your normal menstrual cycles constitute production of a great of estradiol.
Your perimenopause.
Begins when your bucket of estradiol dwindles down to just a water bottle.
Of estradiol.
Birth control that contains both estradiol and progesterone.
Give your body a great big mug!
Full of estradiol.
And HRT for menopause gives your body merely drops.
Of estradiol.
So those are the facts.
Your own body produces estradiol because it can't live without it.
It's your fountain of youth.
It keeps you young on both the inside and the outside.
And by definition,
Menopause is when you lose all your estradiol.
This means that you start aging rapidly on both the inside and the outside at menopause.
On the outside.
Rapid aging takes the form of a long list of skills.
That are due to estradiol deficiency and they range from everything from hot flashes and night sweats and heart palpitations to joint pain,
Vaginal dryness,
Loss of your sex drive.
The list goes on and on.
On the inside,
Rapid aging takes the form of three fatal diseases,
Heart attacks.
Osteoporosis,
And Alzheimer's disease.
Hormone replacement therapy for menopause.
Is replacement.
Of your lost.
Estradiol And the goal of HRT for menopause is to prevent the rapid aging on both the outside and the inside.
But you see,
This is where the fear comes in.
Your ovaries produced this.
And hormone replacement therapy gives you this.
There's no fear with this.
But there is fear.
With this.
Fear is the most powerful emotion on earth.
It interferes with all ability to accept any facts.
And fear is very difficult to erase or reverse.
I know of no fear for any other hormone or any other hormone replacement.
So be sure that you separate fact from fear when it comes to HRT for menopause.
You get to manage your menopause your way.
My goal is to give you an education so that you can make all your decisions using facts.
Rather than fear.
