Deconstructed Medicine - Unraveled by Dr. Lori Gerber

  After 20+ Years, the FDA Finally Admitted What We've Known All Along This is huge. For over two decades, estrogen carried a black box warning—the FDA's strongest safety warning—that scared women away from treatment. It shaped medical practice across the country. It created widespread fear. It kept millions of women suffering unnecessarily. And the truth is, this fear was based on flawed data all along. The FDA finally removed the black box warning on estradiol in 2024. And it's one of the most important shifts in women's health in a generation. Let's talk about why this finally happened, what it means for women right now, and why it took so damn long. The WHI Study Never Deserved a Black Box Warning in the First Place The entire reason estrogen was labeled dangerous comes back to one study: the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) from 2002. And that study was fundamentally flawed from the beginning. "The Women's Health Initiative study was flawed." L...

  Twenty Years of Fear. Zero Discussion of Benefits. For over 20 years, women were terrified away from hormone therapy because of a study that never reflected real menopausal patients. And because of that fear, women missed out on benefits that could have dramatically improved their quality of life. Estradiol (E2-the workhorse type of estrogen) and progesterone are not the villains they were made out to be. In reality, the benefits are powerful, protective, and life-changing when used correctly. Women were told about risks—real or imagined—but never about benefits. That's not informed consent. That's fear-based medicine. And it needs to end. This is what women should have been told from the beginning. Women Lost Decades of Health Because of Fear, Not Facts Women were taken off estrogen for the wrong reasons. Doctors were scared to prescribe. Patients were scared to ask. The media amplified fear without context. And the fallout was enormous. "We have this whole generation o...

  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...