Hormone Replacement Therapy and Bioidenticals: What Every Woman Needs to Know

I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said there are few things certain in this life besides death and taxes. But Ben was a man, so he failed to add menopause to the list. While some of us breeze through it, thrilled not to have to deal with the monthly mess, others are plagued with night sweats, daytime hot flashes, memory lapses, vaginal dryness, and an oh-so disappointing loss of libido. Not to mention a laundry list of mortifying physical changes—losing hair or fat in one place and finding it has shifted in surprising and unattractive ways.

By the late 20th century, estrogen was the top-selling prescription drug in the U.S.