Q&A: Your HRT Questions Finally Answered (The Stuff Your Doctor Glossed Over)
5/26/202633 min
Every cell in your body has hormone receptors, which means when your hormones are off, nothing works the way it should. And yet, hormone replacement therapy remains one of the most misunderstood and under-explained topics in women's health.
The confusion isn't your fault. A lot of it traces back to one study from 2002 that scared an entire generation of doctors away from prescribing hormones, and the ripple effects are still being felt today.
In this solo episode of Hello Hormones, Dr. Carrie is answering the questions you actually submitted, the ones your doctor glossed over, the ones nobody's giving you straight answers on, and the ones you weren't sure were okay to ask.
If HRT has felt overwhelming or out of reach, this is the episode that changes that.
What's Discussed:
(4:27) Can supplements replace hormones in full menopause?
(7:09) The hysterectomy question that trips everyone up.
(11:22) Finding the right HRT provider when your current one won't go there.
(15:41) More HRT options than you were probably told about.
(20:25) Why HRT is giving you a skin rash and what to do instead.
(23:06) Water retention on HRT and how to actually fix it.
(24:02) Symptoms vs. labs: how do you know it's actually working?
(28:22) Just started BHRT: when should you test?
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First 90 secondsCarrie Jones· Host0:00
Welcome to Hello Hormones with me, Dr. Carrie Jones, a podcast where we explore how to make friends with your hormones so that you can thrive in your 30s, 40s, and beyond. Whether you're premenopausal, perimenopausal, fully postmenopausal, or honestly, just a woman dealing with the chaos of hormone imbalances, you are in the right place because handling your hormones doesn't have to feel like herding cats. So let's decode what's really going on, ditch that confusion, and help you feel like yourself again. You bring the symptoms, I'll bring the science, with a bit of sass, and get you solutions together. [upbeat music] Before we get into today's episode, I wanna share something that most women in midlife have no idea about, and that's mitochondrial function and how it naturally declines as we get older. And in midlife, that really starts to show up, and that's exactly what Mitopure from Timeline is designed to address. Your mitochondria are these tiny energy factories inside every single one of your cells. You have millions and millions of them. When they start to decline though, your energy tanks, your muscles get weaker, recovery takes forever, and you just feel off. Sound familiar? Well, Mitopure contains Urolithin A, which supports a process called mitophagy, which is basically your body's built-in cleanup crew for damaged mitochondria. We have to get rid of them. And when that system is working