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Sebastian Ritscher |
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ESTROGEN MATTERS
Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Improves Women's Well-Being, Lenghtens Their Lives - and Doesn't Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer
Estrogen Matters is a short, punchy and lively manifesto presenting a compelling defense of Hormone Replacement Therapy, exposing the faulty science behind the Women's Health Initiate study which made headlines and caused a sea change in the use of HRT in treating women. The authors tell a fascinating science story and also empower readers to make informed decisions about their health.
For years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle. Study after study showed that HRT, if initiated at the onset of menopause, could ease symptoms ranging from hot flashes to memory loss; reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, and some cancers; and even extend a woman's overall life expectancy. But when a large study by the Women's Health Initiative announced results showing an uptick in breast cancer among women taking estrogen replacement, the winds shifted abruptly, and HRT, officially deemed a carcinogen, was abandoned.
As it turns out, however, that study was fatally flawed. Now, fifteen years after HRT was left for dead, Dr. Bluming, a medical oncologist, and Dr. Tavris, a social psychologist, track its strange history and present a compelling case for its resurrection. They investigate what led the publicand much of the medical establishmentto accept the Women's Health Initiative's often exaggerated claims, while also providing a fuller picture of the science that supports HRT. They explore broad questions about how medical research is brought from bench to bedside, giving readers the information they need to decide if hormone replacement therapy is right for them.
A sobering and revelatory read, Estrogen Matters sets the record straight on this beneficial treatment, and provides an empowering path to wellness for women everywhere.
Avrum Bluming, MD, is a hematologist and medical oncologist, and a Master of the American College of Physicians, an award bestowed on fewer than 500 of the 100,000 board-certified internists in the United States. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a former senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute.
Carol Tavris, PhD, is a social psychologist who has written widely about psychological science. Her trade books include Anger; The Mismeasure of Woman; and, with Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). She has won numerous awards for her science writing and contributions to skepticism and gender equity.
As it turns out, however, that study was fatally flawed. Now, fifteen years after HRT was left for dead, Dr. Bluming, a medical oncologist, and Dr. Tavris, a social psychologist, track its strange history and present a compelling case for its resurrection. They investigate what led the publicand much of the medical establishmentto accept the Women's Health Initiative's often exaggerated claims, while also providing a fuller picture of the science that supports HRT. They explore broad questions about how medical research is brought from bench to bedside, giving readers the information they need to decide if hormone replacement therapy is right for them.
A sobering and revelatory read, Estrogen Matters sets the record straight on this beneficial treatment, and provides an empowering path to wellness for women everywhere.
Avrum Bluming, MD, is a hematologist and medical oncologist, and a Master of the American College of Physicians, an award bestowed on fewer than 500 of the 100,000 board-certified internists in the United States. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California and a former senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute.
Carol Tavris, PhD, is a social psychologist who has written widely about psychological science. Her trade books include Anger; The Mismeasure of Woman; and, with Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). She has won numerous awards for her science writing and contributions to skepticism and gender equity.
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Published 2018-09-01 by Spark /Little Brown |
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Published 2024-09-01 by Little, Brown Spark |