#279: Avrum Bluming, MD & Carol Tavris, PhD – Estrogen, Menopause & Misconceptions About Hormone Replacement

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🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Avrum Bluming received his MD from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He spent four years as a senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute and for two of those years was director of the Lymphoma Treatment Center in Kampala, Uganda. He organized the first study of lumpectomy for the treatment of breast cancer in Southern California in 1978, and for more than two decades he has been studying the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy administered to women with a history of breast cancer.

Dr. Bluming has served as a clinical professor of medicine at USC and has been an invited speaker at the Royal College of Physicians in London and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He was elected to mastership in the American College of Physicians, an honor accorded to only five hundred of the over one hundred thousand board-certified internists in this country.

Carol Tavris received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan. Her books include Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), with Elliot Aronson; Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, and The Mismeasure of Woman. She has written articles, op-eds, and book reviews on topics in psychological science for a wide array of publications — including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the TLS — and a column, “The Gadfly,” for Skeptic magazine. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and has received numerous awards for her efforts to promote gender equality, science, and skepticism.

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0:00.0	And I love that one of the doctors in the audience said, forgive me, I'm just a regular doctor here, but if it wasn't statistically significant, what is all
0:23.1	the fuss about?
0:24.8	And this investigator replied, when you do a study this big that costs this much and you
0:31.1	know you're never going to be able to do it again.
0:35.3	And I'm interpolating here.
0:36.9	You know in your heart of hearts that you think estrogen is dangerous.
0:40.3	We ask the statistical police to leave the room.
0:44.3	This is not what science should be done. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio with me, your host, Danny
1:09.3	Lennon, we're episode 279 of the podcast today.
1:14.7	And what I think is going to be a very intriguing and eye-opening discussion and hopefully
1:19.7	something from this piques your interest if you are so inclined or of interest in this area
1:25.3	that you can go and dig into a bit deeper. Before we get into things,
1:29.4	I just want to mention a quick note that may be of interest to some of you. And as I've mentioned
1:34.7	previously, my good friend, Martin MacDonald, is currently doing a tour of seminars in various
1:39.8	different locations and has done a number of them now at this stage. But I just wanted to give you a
1:45.0	reminder because he has upcoming dates that are going to be in Melbourne, in Auckland, as well as a
1:50.4	number of places around the UK, including Cambridge, Cardiff, Newcastle, London and a few other places
1:57.9	too. And some of those UK talks later in there are actually already sold out.
2:02.2	So if you have interest in going to see one of Martin seminars,
2:05.4	you should get in there quick.
2:07.0	Also, if you are a Sigma Nutrition Radio listener,
2:10.1	then you can get 10% off tickets if you wanted to go to one of them.
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