The 2002 Women’s Health Initiative didn’t just change medical guidelines, it triggered a decades-long fear of hormones built on misreported statistics, flawed study design, and a synthetic progestin that has since been replaced by bioidentical progesterone, which carries no elevated breast cancer risk above a woman’s baseline. When hormone therapy is started within 10 years of menopause using the right formulation, the data shows women live longer, maintain stronger bones, and experience significantly less of the actual leading cause of death in women, heart disease.
