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Hello Dr. Aeman,

Dr. Aeman, Dr. Christine McElwain.

You were talking in your program about balancing your

hormones through lab work, and so I don't know if this is hearsay or what, but is there a link

with estrogen levels and getting cancer because they say we have cancer cells in our body.

So on that note, do you do bio-identical hormones or how do you correct your lab work once you find out what you're deficient in?

You know, hormones are so important and if they're not right, you won't feel right.

And there are a number of brain imaging studies

that show, as a woman goes through menopause.

If she's not taking estrogen,

the area in the brain that first dies in Alzheimer's disease

actually becomes more sleepy and sludge.

But it's not simple because you can't just give everybody

estrogen, because some people who are prone to certain kinds of

cancers like breast cancer are more likely to get breast cancer on hormone replacement.

So you have to be very careful. Now the cancer studies are

actually not done with bio-identical hormones. They're done with the

horse estrogen. So the jury is really still out on the bio-identical hormones, but I always think you have to be smart and be careful anyways.

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