Does this make you angry? If it doesn't - it should. Watch the video. It is eye opening for women's health.
For more than 20 years, the FDA’s black box warning on hormone replacement therapy — based on an older, deeply flawed study of women who were mostly in their 60s and long past menopause — scared doctors and patients away from treatment and left millions of women suffering in silence. That label turned HRT into a “danger drug” in people’s minds, even though those results didn’t reflect younger, newly menopausal women or today’s safer doses, delivery methods, and regimens.
The result? Women pushed through years of severe hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, brain fog, depression, painful sex, recurrent UTIs, and accelerated bone loss because they were told hormones were too dangerous, or their doctors refused to prescribe them at all. Removing the black box doesn’t make HRT risk-free, but it finally removes a giant, outdated fear signal and opens the door for what should have been happening all along: honest, individualized conversations where women can weigh real risks and real benefits instead of being ruled by a warning that never told the whole story.