What are the benefits of hormone therapy for women in menopause and perimenopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Hormone therapy is not a panacea for everything that happens to a women transitioning through menopause, cautions Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Johns Hopkins. Now that the FDA has removed their black box warning from many forms of hormone therapy, Shen is concerned that women may be persuaded by profit seeking organizations and their websites that every woman should try hormone therapy for what ails her.

Shen: All women are reading about menopause hormones on everything they pick up. They're coming to me saying ohh I read that it's going to help me with this that and the other and I wanna lose weight so put me on hormone therapy. No, evidence does not support hormone therapy helping you lose weight. Losing weight is a really boring thing of watching your diet, exercising and if you have diabetes the GLP ones.   :27

Shen notes there is no substitute for experience when it comes to prescribing hormone therapy. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.