In this excerpt from my appearance on The Huberman Lab Podcast, Andrew and I discuss the Women’s Health Initiative study, hormone replacement therapy for women, and a range of topics related to women’s health, including:

-A detailed overview of hormones as they relate to the menstruation cycle

-Stages and symptoms of menopause -How PMS relates to hormones

-A brief history of how the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study came to be

-The failures of the WHI study design and participant selection

-The use of synthetic progesterone in the WHI study and why this was problematic

-The use of hormone replacement therapy for women in Peter’s practice