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Dr. Jen Gunter, Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, Shelby Harris PsyD DBSM, Nanette Santoro, Amy J VoedischImagine a Venn diagram with overlapping circles labeled: Medical Facts, Feminism, and Fire. You've arrived at their intersection.
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Testosterone to Increase Exercise Capacity in Women with Early Heart Failure: A Randomised Controlled Trial
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One thing I really like about medical conferences is listening to the presentations of new research. There is usually and interesting a mix ranging from work that has been submitted for publication, all the way to very...
Bone Health Without the Hype
Dr. Jen Gunter taken at AMS, 2026
I am at the Australasian Menopause Society meeting and we had a fantastic lecture on Bone Health on Day 2, called, “Everything you need to know about bones - except the boring bits!” Spoiler alert, there w...
The Problem with Compounded Testosterone
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In most countries, there is no approved pharmaceutical transdermal (topical) testosterone for women, so the options are to use either a government-approved product for men at one-tenth (or possibly even one-twentie...
Before You Share That New "HRT Prevents Dementia" Study, Read the Fine Print
This feels like déjà vu. It was just a week or so ago that I wrote about how a new observational study could not prove menopause hormone therapy prevents dementia, and here we are again for round 2 with another study. I figured we should lo...
The Estrogen-Alzheimer’s Hype Machine
Why one observational study can’t turn a hypothesis into a treatment
I feel we must be on Exhibit #324 of the Estrogen Hype Machine. This week my social media feed has been filled with menopause influencers making bold claims that a new st...
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OB/GYN, author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto (NYT and Canadian bestsellers), appropriately confident, lasso of truth.
Passionate about menopause and perimenopause | Podcaster "Ovaryactive" | Author "Estrogen Interrupted" | Evidence and data are my guiding stars.
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