Estrogen: A Girl’s Best Friend is out now! I believe there is an optimum balance of hormones which makes for well-being of mind, body, and spirit. I call it “True Physiologic Rejuvenation.” – James S. Nagel, M.D.
Archive for month: June, 2026
For something that happens to every woman who lives long enough, menopause is remarkably misunderstood. Ask most women what’s going on in their bodies during “the change,” and the answer is usually built more from folklore and hallway conversation than from physiology: hot flashes, mood swings, weight gain, a vague sense that things are “just different now.”
For the last two decades, “hormone replacement therapy” has carried a kind of built-in warning label in the popular imagination — thanks largely to the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the large 2002 study whose headline finding, “estrogen causes breast cancer,” reshaped medicine almost overnight.
