The TRUTH About Estrogen & Breast Cancer (What Doctors Don't Tell You) with Dr. Avrum Bluming

In this episode of MENO, host Jacqueline Buckingham sits down with Dr. Avrum Bluming, a renowned breast oncologist and the author of Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer.

For over three decades, Dr. Bluming has been dedicated to uncovering the facts surrounding breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Together, they explore the patient-provider relationship, dismantle long-standing misconceptions about estrogen and progesterone, and discuss how women can advocate for their own health through data collection.

IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER:
➡️ The Patient-Provider Relationship: How an informed patient and a respectful physician can work together to achieve better health outcomes, rather than defaulting to an arrogant stance.
➡️ The Impact of Menopause Symptoms: How the median duration of menopause symptoms is 7.2 years—and can last 10 years or longer for women of color—causing up to 30% of female physicians and nurses in England to retire early.
➡️ The Primary Roles of Estrogen and Progesterone: Why estrogen is the primary drug for menopausal treatment, and how progesterone helps eliminate the increased risk of uterine cancer for women who still have a uterus.
➡️ Misrepresentations in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Study: A critical look at the flaws, biases, and data misrepresentations of the 2002 WHI study that caused a dramatic drop in women taking hormones.
➡️ HRT and Decreased Breast Cancer Risk: The little-known findings from the WHI that women taking estrogen alone actually had a 23% decreased risk of breast cancer and a 40% decreased risk of death from it.
➡️ Hormones and Heart Disease: Why estrogen decreases the risk of significant heart disease by 50%, an important fact given that seven times as many women die of heart disease as breast cancer.
➡️ Cognitive Decline and Osteoporosis Benefits: How hormones help protect against cognitive decline and why estrogen keeps bones elastic, offering a proactive prophylactic treatment against osteoporosis.
➡️ HRT for Breast Cancer Survivors: An analysis of 26 studies regarding hormone therapy for breast cancer survivors, revealing that 25 found no increased risk of cancer recurrence.
➡️ Advocacy Through Informed Consent Forms: How women can access Legal Informed Consent Forms and Quality of Life Questionnaires via Dr. Bluming's Instagram page to build a medical partnership with their doctors.
RESOURCES
https://www.amazon.com/Estrogen-Matters-Hormones-Menopause-Lengthen/dp/0316578908

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