Katie Rowan

Did she really say that estrogen doesn't cause breast cancer? Yes. I did. And I stand by it. I know that might feel shocking — maybe even alarming — given what most of us have been told for the past two decades. But the science tells a different story than the headlines did in 2002, and it's time we talked about it. Buckle up, because this gets technical. First, Let's Go Back to 2002 The belief that estrogen in menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer traces back to a single moment:...

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"When your heart says 'love' but your hormones say 'pause'!" Here's something that might surprise you: heart disease kills more women in the United States than anything else. According to the CDC, it claims the lives of 1 in 3 women every year. And yet, so many women still think of it as a man's problem. There's a reason for that. Men tend to develop cardiovascular disease about a decade earlier than women, so the research, the public awareness campaigns, even the textbook descriptions of a...