The Dangers Of
Hormone Therapies
By Martha Rosenberg
Women approaching menopause today probably have no idea how stigmatized their natural aging used to be .
In 1966 , a bestselling book called Feminine Forever , written by Robert A . Wilson , a Wyeth-funded gynecologist , called post-menopausal women “ flabby ,” “ shrunken ,” “ dull-minded ,” and “ desexed .” Ads for hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) in medical journals accused women of “ outliving their ovaries ” and other health crimes . The solution was HRT .
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