HeyJaredDr. Amy B. Killen MD
Hormones and Women's Longevity M.D. Welcome to your Queen Phase.
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Count the Boats (opens the original)
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The printout usually arrives folded in quarters.She’s 52. She slides it across the desk and says, “My doctor says my cholesterol is fine.” Sometimes the doctor added “A little up, will monitor.” Sometimes nobody said anything at all, because every box was green.Then we order an ApoB, and it comes back at 120-something.Both numbers are correct. Only one of them is telling her the truth about her arteries. And the one telling the truth started climbing right around the time her periods stopped.Wel
A Tale of Two Studies (opens the original)
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Two hormone therapy studies landed in my inbox the same week.The first, built on UK data, says hormone therapy raises your cardiovascular risk. The second, built from 111 million medical records, says it lowers it by nearly a third. Both are peer-reviewed. Both enormous. Both about the same hormones.My DM’s were flooded with the obvious next question: “So which one is lying?”Neither. And that’s the whole point of this piece.I’m not going to give you the full story of hormones and the heart today
Vaginal DHEA (opens the original)
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She had done everything right. Six months of vaginal estrogen, used correctly, twice a week, no complaints about the routine. The dryness was gone. Her tissue looked better. And she still could not get anything past the first inch without her eyes watering.That woman comes through my clinics regularly, and last week’s piece on vaginal estrogen does not fully help her. The sprinkler reaches the lawn, the watering can reaches the south bed, and there is still a small patch of ground right at
The Sprinkler Doesn’t Reach the Flower Bed (opens the original)
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“I’m on everything. Estrogen patch, progesterone, testosterone cream. My levels are good. So why is this my fourth UTI since Christmas?”Some version of that lands in our clinic every week. The woman asking is doing everything right. She found a prescriber who says yes to hormones. She got her estradiol into range. Hot flashes gone, sleeping through the night, joints finally quiet, and she is deeply, specifically confused about why her bladder didn’t get the memo.She isn’t doing anything wrong. N
Study Women. Not For Us. For You. (opens the original)
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A new paper in Cell by Singh and Kapahi argues that the ovary was never just a reproductive organ, and that the fastest route to understanding how anybody ages runs straight through female biology.The last line of the abstract is the part I can’t stop thinking about.After twenty-plus pages arguing that female biology has been sidelined in aging research, the authors conclude that studying females should be prioritized because it has unique implications for
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