The SHE Word - Women's Health Special - the TRUTH about Menopause and HRT

SHE-Worders, Perimenopause and Menopause are some of the biggest changes your body will ever experience, and if you make it to your 40s there is NO ESCAPING this - it will affect you in one way or another.

Most women would agree that there just isn’t enough information, or even research, into Perimenopause and Menopause. The medical profession is now stating that perimenopause can last up to 7 years and may start as early as the beginning of your 40s. Some doctors attribute over 60 physical symptoms to the menopause, many of which most would never think of. More than 90% of postmenopausal women were never taught about the menopause at school and over 60% only started looking for information about it once their symptoms had started, and no surprise, but a recent study found that researchers don’t properly consider menopause in 99 percent of studies of the biology of aging.

HRT has been proven to have life-changing results as a method of combating the effects of falling Estrogen and Progestogen levels, but hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted for many women decades ago because of cancer fears. It has now been found to be an effective and safe treatment for post-menopausal women in new studies that suggest earlier warnings were overblown.

Since early 2000, most women were advised to stop HRT because research suggested it could increase the risk of breast cancer, as well as heart attacks and stroke.

It is now stated that The Women’s Health Initiative, or WHI, was flawed from the beginning and it deprived women of hormones that could have helped them.

In this edition of The SHE Word, Host Trudy Kerr sits down with psychologist and HFT user Karen Schranz, Gynaecologist Dr Theresa Galea Testa, and

Daniela Magro, Pharmacist and Women’s Health specialist to look at Perimenopause, Menopause, the treatments and the truth about HRT.

This is a topic frequently requested by SHE-Worders and we are grateful to our friends at Vivian Corporation for supporting this conversation and helping us make this happen.