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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

'Misleading' Information About Women's Hormone Replacement Therapies

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The FDA recently announced it will be removing warning labels on hormone replacement therapy medications. In an exclusive conversation with Martha, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains the FDA's decision and why these labels are now considered misleading. Later, Martha revisits her conversation with FOX News contributor and board-certified radiologist, Dr. Nicole Saphier, who explains the risks of hormone replacement therapy as a treatment for menopause and some of the common misconceptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the untold story, everybody. Today we're going to be talking about the important topic of women's health, and I wanted to first share with you my exclusive conversation this week with Health and Human Services Secretary

0:21.6

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We spoke about the controversy surrounding hormone replacement therapy or

0:28.1

HRT. Big news on that this week, a huge reversal from the government in terms of their advice to women on

0:36.2

this. Here's our conversation.

0:41.1

And in 2002, a study called the Women's Health Initiative found that women taking

0:47.5

hormone replacement therapy may have an increased risk of breast cancer diagnoses.

0:53.6

The study was not statistically significant,

0:57.4

but it triggered a media frenzy and led to the FDA

1:01.0

applying unscientific black box warnings.

1:04.9

Bureaucrats at the FDA reacted out of fear,

1:08.3

not cold standard science.

1:10.5

The medical establishment doubled down in group think.

1:15.1

So the FDA says that black box warnings on hormone replacement therapies for menopausal

1:20.2

women were based on failed science, as you just heard there from the HHS secretary.

1:25.1

27% of postmenopausal women were taking HARTs in 1999,

1:30.3

but after this warning, the number plunged when women feared that they could have a higher risk of breast cancer.

1:37.3

Health and Human Services, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., joins me now.

1:41.3

Secretary Kennedy, always good to have you with us.

1:43.3

Thank you for joining us today.

1:45.3

You know, I think this is a tricky. Thank you. It's a tricky subject. You know, for

1:50.2

women who have breast cancer history in their families, as I do, you've been told that

1:56.9

HRT could increase that risk to you.

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