Synthetic Hormones Are Not Bioidentical: Why the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study Got It Wrong
If You Don't Understand This Difference, Nothing Else Makes Sense Here's what you need to know: Women were scared away from hormone therapy for over 20 years because the WHI study used the wrong hormones entirely. Not the hormones we use now. Not the hormones women's bodies even recognize. Not anything close to what modern bioidentical hormone therapy looks like. The confusion between synthetic hormones and bioidentical hormones created decades of fear, suffering, and misinformation. And it's time to clear that up once and for all. Let's break this down the way it should have been explained from the beginning: direct, clear, and honest. The WHI Used Hormones That Were Never Meant for the Human Body Here's where everything went wrong. "They were using synthetic hormones, not bioidentical hormones that mimic natural physiology." That alone should have stopped everyone from applying the WHI results to modern menopausal care. But it didn't. Instead...