Weight gain, increased girth, painful sexual intercourse, frequent urinary tract infections.

These are major symptoms, and the male approach was usually, well, yes, they're bothersome,

but get over it, you're a woman, and women will no longer accept that kind of avoiding

the subject. And what we know now is that estrogen is far and away the most effective

treatment for all of those symptoms. It will relieve or eliminate those symptoms in

up to 80% of women who take it, and nothing else comes close.

That is the voice of Avram Blooming, a medical oncologist, and as well as co-writing a book

called Estrogen Matters, a man who's been studying the benefits and risks of breast cancer

patients taking HRT for over 25 years. I'm Liz Earl, and this is the Lizor Wellbeing

Show, the podcast helping us all to have a better second half. And as you well know, I'm

on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing

in our health and our wellbeing today. And of course, the safety of HRT has been a significant

part of my research and writing here with my wellbeing team. I'm continually challenged

by the misinformation out there, and the very detrimental health effects, the worry,

the concern that this is having on just so many midlife women and beyond. And so I'm

very, very much looking forward to the chance to speak directly with one of the world's

leading experts on the subject. Now, Avram Blooming is a master of the American

College of Physicians and a former senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute.

We'll talk to the professor about his professional background a little later on, but first, I

want to make sure we all really understand what Estrogen is and how it affects everything

from our heart to our bone health to our sleep, our mental, emotional and sexual function

too.

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