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What You May Want to Know About Estrogen Therapy
All the ways it may impact your health.
Kiersten Essenpreis
Please do discuss estrogen with your own doctor before making any decisions about therapy.
As a board-certified gynecologist with decades of experience, I sometimes want to scream in frustration over the medical misinformation that pops up on social media. At the top of that list is misinformation about the use of menopausal estrogen therapy. Here, I will clear up those myths and misconceptions, giving you the facts about what estrogen will do for you according to current scientific evidence. I am not including issues that are still controversial, like whether estrogen therapy can decrease the risk of dementia. This list is not based on my opinion or my own clinical experience. What follows has been proven in well-designed studies and echoes the 2022 North American Menopause Society Position Statement on Hormone Therapy.
Peri- and postmenopausal women who take estrogen have:
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