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Dr Rachel Rubin: Women’s Sexual Health, Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Orgasms!

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The Women's Health Initiative Disaster Explained

Dr Rachel Rubin: Women’s Sexual Health, Menopause, Hormone … · Jun 22, 2026 Health & Fitness

In the early 2000s, a major NIH study was stopped early and a press conference announced that hormone therapy causes cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. Overnight, prescriptions crashed. The same authors published in 2025 that below age 70, that therapy had no increased risk of either. Only 1.7% of eligible women now receive HRT — a generation of doctors never learned how to prescribe it.

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Does Estrogen Increase Cancer Risk?

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HRT (hormone replacement therapy) replaces declining estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen alone can thicken the uterine lining; combining it with progesterone protects against endometrial cancer.

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