Happy Sunday, everyone! Mere, here and we have a lot to chat about!
This newsletter is going to be focused on catching you up!
If you've been reading along in our past newsletters and blogs, you've seen the range of what's come out of our Anonymous Questionnaire [LINKED HERE] lately: PMOS (the new name for PCOS as of this year, more on that if you missed it), creatine, the benefits and the myths, what it looks like to consider hormone therapy in your late thirties or early forties while you're still cycling normally, why your iron can stay stubbornly low even while you're supplementing for it, how to choose between the different hormone therapy delivery methods, estrogen and endometriosis, and the "too old for hormone therapy" myth that keeps showing up in exam rooms no matter how many times we say otherwise.
If you have missed these and want to catch up please do so [HERE]
If you're reading any of these thinking "but what about my case," please don’t hesitate, go to [THIS LINK]. The form is anonymous, and we answer questions on the blog, on the podcast, and right here in the newsletter. Don't assume someone's already asked yours. We've answered the same topic three different ways for three different women, because three different women brought us three different versions of it…so again, don’t hesitate.
Separately, some of you already know we do this once a year: I ask our community for provider referrals we can pass along when clients need them. In years past I have always asked for mental health providers specifically, but this year I opened the ask beyond mental health providers to basically anything, pelvic floor therapists, gynecologists, primary care, nurse practitioners, plastic surgeons, dermatologists and aesthetic providers, chiropractors, and an open field for whatever I forgot to list.
The community did not hold back! The response was impressive: a spine institute referral, a reproductive endocrinology referral, a breast augmentation surgeon, an explant surgeon, a GYN referral, real depth across the board.
If you've had an exceptional experience with a provider and want to pass that along so we can share it with other women looking, the form's anonymous and open. [SHARE HERE]
Now, back to this week's blog. One of our group mentorship coaches brought a client case to a mentorship call, 58 years old, who'd asked her gynecologist about hormone therapy two years earlier and was told it was too late. That she should have started years before if she wanted it at all.
My answer on the call was one word: false.
This week's piece picks up where the "too old" blog left off and goes a level deeper into why timing argument and even aging out of hormone therapy comes up, not just what the statistics say, but what's happening in a woman's vessels and her brain that makes the same treatment protective for one woman and different for another. Spoiler alert, it's not her birthday driving that difference. Two women can be the exact same number of years since menopause and be standing in completely different places biologically.
Read the full piece LINKED HERE
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