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

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer How 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 research The real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wrong thing Estrogen 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 outcomes The same number of women die of a complication of a fracture as breast cancer each year, and hormones help protect the bones 2-3x more women die of heart disease than breast cancer and BHRT helps protect the heart We need to unlearn what we think we know about hormone replacement and learn the proper benefits Resources We Mention The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer by Dr. Jenn Simmons Estrogen 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