The Lowest Dose of Estradiol Is NOT Best: Rethinking Menopause Hormone Therapy | Felice Gersh, MD

Hi, I'm Dr. Feliz Gersh, your integrative OBGYn physician. Now, one thing that really is making me smile is that menopause is suddenly so trendy. Now, I have been treating women in menopause for several decades, and I live through the whole women's health initiative and the craziness that followed when it shut down everything.

when it shut down and it shut down hormones for so many women back in 2003. They were talking a long time ago and I fought for women. I begged my patients to stay on hormones. I said this is irrational. It's unscientific. There is no way that this study will be upheld or revered. It's going to be

reviled. Just give it some time. About half my patients stayed on hormones and the other half were so fearful by all the ridiculous rhetoric that came out about all the evilness of hormones. Well, let's fast forward to today. I just said I smile because menopause is trendy and in a good way. It's now being

promoted to recognize that menopause is the beginning of a huge and pmenopause all of these transitions in terms of loss of ovarian hormone production is now recognized more and more widely that it is the beginning of a huge metabolic shift in women. Not only is reproductive functions though they lost but metabolic health starts to take a gigantic hit and

metabolism is life itself. It's the production distribution utilization storage of energy which has to do with everything every organ system. So the bottom line is menopause is now being more widely acknowledged. I have to admit, not in every little crevice and corner of the US or even the world, but more and more that menopause is natural