🌸 FDA Drops Black Box Warning on HRT … What Now?

  • 🌸 FDA Drops Black Box Warning on HRT … What Now?

    Posted by IMA-HelenT on November 13, 2025 at 9:44 am EST

    The FDA has officially removed the black box warning from hormone therapy treatments for menopause and perimenopause.

    For many women, this feels like long-overdue validation, but for them and others it also brings big questions:

    🩺 Doctors often dismissed symptoms or offered no real solutions.

    💊 Many still can’t access bioidentical hormones or compounding pharmacies — and insurance rarely helps.

    ❓ Some are being told to avoid HRT if they have a history of breast cancer or heart issues… even now.

    🔍 And others are asking: What studies actually led to this change?

    What’s been your experience — and where do you stand?

    ✨ What do you want to see next from the HHS or IMA?

    More access? Better education? Testing? Coverage?

    If you see any interesting studies, discussions or write-ups drop them into the discussion too.

    IMA-HelenT replied 3 weeks, 4 days ago 4 Members · 10 Replies
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  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    November 13, 2025 at 9:45 am EST

    Link to a news piece about the announcement : https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604283/fda-menopause-hormone-therapy

    • Jeff Gerber

      Member
      November 13, 2025 at 7:59 pm EST

      ❤ I’m very happy to see this kind of progressive action being taken.

      • IMA-HelenT

        Organizer
        November 14, 2025 at 12:19 pm EST

        🙂

  • Jeff Gerber

    Member
    November 13, 2025 at 7:47 pm EST

    Just to add my 2 cents here with something that can also help as an adjunct when it comes to the aspect of bone health and HRT.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3154031/

    “Results

    Earthing of an electrically insulated human organism during night rest causes lowering of serum concentrations of iron, ionized calcium, inorganic phosphorus, and reduction of renal excretion of calcium and phosphorus. Earthing during night rest decreases free tri-iodothyronine and increases free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone. The continuous earthing of the human body decreases blood glucose in patients with diabetes. Earthing decreases sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron, total protein, and albumin concentrations while the levels of transferrin, ferritin, and globulins α1, α2, β, and Îł increase. These results are statistically significant.”

    What this means is calcium is not leeching out of your bones when you sleep grounded.

  • Cindi Anderson

    Member
    November 13, 2025 at 10:22 pm EST

    – Now they need to clarify that it’s not just for younger women, but older ones as well.
    – Now they need to get the word out to doctors so it doesn’t take 20 years to turn the ship.
    – Now they need to change the advice for cancer patients. They are suffering miserably when the same data also shows that estrogen is cancer protective EVEN for people with hormone positive breast cancer. (Dr Avrum Bluming paper where 24 of 25 studies showed that.) Lots of writings by Dr Lindsey Berkson on that as well.
    – Now they need to mainstream the urine tests you can get to make sure your body is processing estrogen along a cancer protective pathway rather than one which could be dangerous. Especially since so many people have unhealthy environments, diets, etc.

    • IMA-HelenT

      Organizer
      November 14, 2025 at 12:17 pm EST

      All great points, thank you @qofmiwok, I suppose we can all do our bit by sharing articles and research. I know we have some info coming from our doctors soon.

    • IMA-GregT

      Member
      November 15, 2025 at 11:13 am EST

      @qofmiwok Thanks for this info, Shared with a friend.

  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    December 3, 2025 at 1:33 pm EST
  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    January 4, 2026 at 12:03 pm EST

    Dr. Berg did a video on menopause recently that I thought would be worth a share:

    https://youtu.be/1nAfTsObuwY?si=SMliDrQ8ETZN5jWL&sfnsn=scwspwa

  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    January 4, 2026 at 12:05 pm EST

    An another video that seems to be a balanced discussion around HRT: https://youtu.be/__DrcOY7fGQ

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