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Podcast: Empowering Midlife Wellness with Dr. Susan
Episode: Are combination compounded hormone creams SAFE? | Menopausal Hormone Therapy
Description: During the last decades of confusion about menopausal hormone therapy, many well-meaning solutions were offered to patients claiming to be safer than the feared traditional HRT. These include combinations of estrogens, progesterone and testosterone in the form of topical creams and sublingual preparations. Now that we are emerging from this fog of confusion, and understand that estradiol, progesterone and testosterone are not only safe, but also provide numerous health benefits for women, it's important to reevaluate whether compounded estrogen products still have a place. Today Iām discussing the different types of estrogen that are available in compounded form, why pr...