General Discussion

Its methodology and findings were flawed. For some time, women's advocates in the medical community have argued that women should have the option of HRT because of its benefits to mood, body changes, bone density, weight gain, hot flashes, etc... Doctors, particularly male doctors, have denied women that option. Women have had to fight to get HRT, and only certain specialist OBGYNs will prescribe it. RFK junior is an idiot, but he happens to be right on this ONE issue.

Actually, it's not just male doctors who refuse women HRT. The medical establishment in general knows nothing about menopause, so that when you go to a doctor with a complaint, they never tell you that it's a perimenopausal symptom because they don't even know. That happened with me. I had persistent migraines when I was perimenopausal, but they went away when I entered menopause. It would have been nice to know that at the time.

Here is a link to one, more recent NIH study on HRT: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11826161/