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The Estrogen Dilemma, (cont.)

The Estrogen Dilemma in Sunday's New York Times Magazine (April 18, 2010) re-opens the decade-old debate over multiple risk-benefit analyses of certain hormone replacement therapies in a very thorough, personal, and, I thought, helpful way -- deconstructing and revisiting the results and non-results alike of the headline-making W.H.I. clinical trials which frightened women away from HRT when they were aborted, three years early, in 2002. Journalist Cynthia Gorney confirms what my (brilliant) gynecologist told me all along -- that the trials were testing the wrong drugs on the wrong population to determine if someone like she -- or me -- should take hormones in our 40's,50's or 60's and for how long. Like the HRT prescribed for Ms. Gorney, mine addressed both the irritating symptoms of menopause and the frightening symptoms of menopausal depression -- and, according to the story, may even help protect my brain cells from Alzheimer's.  Good research.  See what you think.  And tell us what you've experienced.