The following statements are interesting estrogen facts that might be of interest:

• Did you know that if a woman has to undergo any type of heart surgery that the instruments used are those that are fitted to men? Those improperly sized instruments could increase women's risks for other serious ailments.
• Did you know that if a woman maintains her estrogen, she will not have menopause?
• Did you know that the total risk of dying while taking hormones is decreased by 37 percent as revealed an 18 year study and 33 percent decreased in the Kaiser Permanente 23 year mortality study?
• Did you know that estrogen protects a woman's coronary arteries and once the estrogen is depleted, she loses that protection? Data and statistics state that heart disease is the number one cause of death among women.
• Did you know that if you contract breast cancer, and are taking estrogen, you will have a less severe case of breast cancer?
• Did you know that women taking hormones have a 20 percent decrease risk of dying from breast cancer?
• Did you know that being overweight or obese increases the risk of breast cancer especially if a woman is past menopause and/or if they gained the weight later in life?
• Did you know that a woman's chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer increases with age? When a woman is in her 30's, her chances are 1 in 233 and by the time she is in 80's, that risk is 1 in 8?
• Did you know that heart disease is the number one cause of death for women with more than 246,000 deaths each year? The second most common cause of death is stroke (96,000 cases). The third cause of death is lung cancer (71,000 cases). The fourth cause of death are lower respiratory diseases (67,000 cases) and the fifth cause of death is breast cancer (40,000 cases).
• Did you know there is compelling evidence that estrogen is necessary for glucose to cross the blood brain barrier. Without glucose the brain dies. A hot flash is the brain screaming out for glucose. When the hot flashes stop, that part of the brain has died. Seventy-one percent of nursing home patients are women. Two out of three probably would not be there if they had been on hormones.
• Did you know that weight gain can be a result of menopause? The endocrine system of women, because of their hormone balance, makes it difficult for them to lose weight after the age of 40. Weight gain for women is governed by two groups of hormones, sex hormones (estrogen) and thyroid hormones. Womanly figures are a result of estrogens which form their busts, thighs, stomach, buttocks, slims the waist, softens the skin and helps to decrease a woman's appetite. Equally important is the DHEA hormone which also decreases after age 40. Again, another negative result of menopause.
• Did you know that women who are not taking hormones have four times as much Alzheimer's disease as men?
• Did you know that hip fractures are twice as common in women not taking hormones? Fifteen percent of women with hip fractures will be dead in six months. Twenty-five percent will never walk independently again. Estrogen is twice as effective as other therapies in preventing osteoporosis.
• Did you know that there are more than 6.3 million women taking estrogen? The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has implemented the guidelines for estrogen use to be limited to the lowest dosage for the shortest period of time. However, they overlooked one specific group of estrogen users - the millions of women who have taken it for more than 20+ years. One women, who lives in the Washington, DC area, is 94 years old and has been taking estrogen for 53 years. Look at the hardship those guidelines have placed on the millions of long term estrogen users - the group that has never been acknowledged or included in studies. Who is going to fix that catastrophe - and when?
• Did you know that more than 458 million women have taken oral contraceptives and that they contain estrogen? Did you ever think about how long women have taken birth control pills; maybe as long as 20, 30 or even 40 years?