Bioidentical Hormone Replacement & Navigating Menopause After Breast Cancer With Dr. Jenn Simmons

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn SimmonsHer very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancerHow she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the researchThe real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wrong thingEstrogen does not cause breast cancer — the truth is much more nuanced than this When you don’t have estrogen, your body starts to deteriorate significantly Women who are on hormone replacement and get breast cancer actually have better outcomesThe same number of women die of a complication of a fracture as breast cancer each year, and hormones help protect the bones2-3x more women die of heart disease than breast cancer and BHRT helps protect the heartWe need to unlearn what we think we know about hormone replacement and learn the proper benefitsResources We MentionThe Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer by Dr. Jenn SimmonsEstrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris