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HRT & Your Heart
Plus: what *is* earwax anyway (and should we get rid of it)?
The 10almonds Team
April 04, 2024
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Menopausal HRT has several heart benefits and some potential heart risks; for most people, the cardioprotective benefits will outweigh any thrombosis risk for example, but your situation may vary, so always check with your own healthcare provider(s)!
Check out today’s main feature for some of the science of this!
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❝So the reason that someone on estrogen has a slightly higher chance of a heart attack is...what? Is it just because there's a higher body fat?❞
There shouldn’t be higher chance of a heart attack once everything’s been taken into account, and indeed estrogen has some cardioprotective benefits, along with competing properties, e.g:
❝The cardiovascular effects of estrogen require a careful balancing act between possible advantages, such as enhanced lipid profiles and vascular function, and possible concerns, like increased thrombotic risk.
Estrogen has cardioprotective properties in premenopausal women❞
The risks and benefits of HRT are numerous, and/but a lot of the risks are associated only with animal-derived HRT rather bioidentitical, so you might want to check out our previous article:
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