{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"It's Not a Purse","title":"#ReclaimJuly9: The Origins of HRT Fear and 2002 WHI Clickbait","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1142,"description":"July 9, 2002 was the date women’s health was set back for over two decades.\nOn July 9, 2002, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a massive, high-profile press conference. They announced the abrupt halting of a hormone trial in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) due to an increased risk of breast cancer. The media rushed to print inflammatory coverage that featured terrifying relative risk statistics without context. These headlines generated complete panic, causing millions of women and physicians to abandon Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) overnight.\nIt is time to #ReclaimJuly9\n\nYears later, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) walked back these findings in various medical journals. Once researchers stratified the data by age and other risk factors, they confirmed that the benefits of HRT far outweigh the risks for most women. But the correction never received the same media blitz.\nNow, 24 years later, millions of women aged 40 to 65 still needlessly suffer through hot flashes, brain fog, and insomnia because of outdated fear and a massive gap in medical education. We are reclaiming July 9th to replace fear with evidence-based facts.\nIndividualized care based on good science is the goal. Designing treatment based on fear inducing relative risk percentages needs to go.  \n⏱️ Episode Timestamps:\n(00:00) - The Anatomy of Fear: How a single media press release permanently distorted public perception of hormone safety.\n(01:04) - The Erasure of Menopause Training: Dr. Stacy Wentworth on how a generation of doctors were taught to rip women off HRT.\n(01:33) - The Vision of Dr. Bernadine Healy: Remembering the first female director of the NIH and her original intent to properly study women’s health.\n(03:27) - Ambushed by the Abstract: WHI Investigator Dr. Robert Langer reveals how researchers were given only 15 minutes to review an inflammatory paper published in their names.\n(04:52) - The Media Firestorm Begins: Susan Dentzer and Dr. Sharonne Hayes recount the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Q3nlm0ijjYP_8Cur4khZdLbSTLy_oIHXhoYiDCTbgAs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NTc2/ZTgzYjRhZjBkM2Ix/ZTljYWZjNzM3ZGFj/NDFjNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}