Consider the following statement very carefully: Maybe the estrogen dilemma is a result of the wrong issue being studied. Most of the studies conducted are concerned with the issue of menopausal age women taking estrogen. However, menopausal women are approximately 51 and, as a result of the age factor, women could already be predisposed to a disease as a result of age, hereditary factors and/or lifestyle preferences. That being the case, how accurate can the conclusions of any study be based on that particular age group? Conclusions could be entirely different ─ if younger women were studied!

Reiterating, new research indicates that the tests conducted in the past may have missed the target! Recently a new study was conducted in the opposite direction ─ women who lost their estrogen as a result of having their ovaries surgically removed. The study involved 29,380 women and 16,345 of them had a hysterectomy including the removal of their ovaries. The remaining 13,035 women had a hysterectomy but kept their ovaries. The results revealed that women who had their ovaries removed were at a higher risk of death from all causes (heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, and all cancers) as a result of loss of estrogen. Very importantly, the study found that women who were younger than 50 at the time of surgery were at a significantly greater risk of death from all causes. The study also referenced the fact that estrogen and androgens keep the heart, bones and blood vessels healthily. The study also admitted that the protective effects of estrogen have been known for decades but that no researchers had investigated the connection until this study. This important information informs me that estrogen is essential to a woman's overall general health.

Now, isn’t this information a new and different concept concerning estrogen?

As a result of this new information, a very concerning question arises which is ─ what if the issue of not having estrogen is actually more harmful than the issue of taking estrogen for the shortest time at the lowest dosage? Which side is more advantageous for a woman's lifelong health?

1. The number one cause of death among women is heart disease. It is a medical fact that estrogen protects women’s arteries but that protection is lost once menopause occurs.


2. Without estrogen, the risks of death from all causes increases drastically according to the recent new study mentioned above.

These are very important medical facts. Think and research them carefully because as of today, other than the one new study mentioned above, only one-half of the problem has been studied!