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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Earlier this week, the FDA hosted a panel on menopods and the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for women.

For years, women have been scared into thinking that HRT was linked to breast cancer because of a misleading study from 2002.

Well, Dr. Marty McCarray spoke with us about this back in episode 881. That was before he became

FDA commissioner, and he was sounding the alarm on that study back then. He's done the same thing

to his credit now as the big boss over at FDA so he can share his message with women across the country. Dr. McCarrie joins me now.

Mr. Commissioner, great to have you. Welcome back. Great to see you again, Megan.

You as well. Thanks for doing this because there's so much misinformation on this, on HRT. And even

amongst my friends, they don't know what to do because there is a general belief it's bad for you.

You shouldn't do it.

And then women, there are other women who say, well, I don't have hot flashes, et cetera, so I'm not going to do it.

And what I gleaned from your panel and your book for that matter is there are other reasons.

It's not going to cause breast cancer in these numbers that we were

told in 2002. It's a very, very minimal risk. And secondly, it's got a lot of really good benefits.

Well, that's right. Look, women have been confused for a good reason. The medical establishment has,

they're not even all on the

same page. And the misunderstanding around the studies has created a lot of dogma that you should

not take hormone replacement therapy because of an increased risk of dying of breast cancer.

Now, it turns out when you look under the hood, no clinical trial has ever shown that hormone

replacement therapy for perimenopausal women increases the likelihood of dying of breast

cancer.

Now, there are importantly two different areas of benefit, and I should just point out that

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