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Estrogen use dramatically increases clotting risk in women, especially ones with obesity

About two decades ago, when the extensive and well-designed WHI studies completed, the verdict on estrogen was…

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Estrogen may cause/exacerbate reflux disease (GERD)

A very interesting study, which once again corroborates the hypothesis that there is no chronic condition, which…

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Oral pregnenolone as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in humans

As many of my readers know, the first step in steroid synthesis is the so-called “side-chain cleavage”,…