A woman recently asked me, “If estrogen is supposed to help protect my heart, why have women been warned for so many years that hormone replacement therapy causes heart attacks?” That is a very good question. My answer was simple: We cannot put every estrogen, every delivery method, and every woman into the same box. For more than two decades, women have been frightened by headlines suggesting that menopausal hormone therapy is inherently dangerous. Those headlines rarely explain what type of...

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My husband asked me a question today, " How did you get on this health kick if you were raised with Southern cooking....”? No one has...