There’s big, positive health news: The FDA has removed the warning label on estrogen therapies for menopause.

That “black box” warning has discouraged a generation of physicians from prescribing estrogen to relieve menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, brain fog, loss of libido, insomnia, and mood swings.

But wait—isn’t estrogen dangerous? Doesn’t estrogen cause breast cancer?

No.

Until 2002, the medical establishment considered estrogen a valuable tool in treating menopausal symptoms. But then a massive federal study of women’s health botched much of the science (sloppy subject selection, high attrition rate, ignored cultural factors), resulting in the premature shutting down of the study—with the explosive explanation that estrogen was too........

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