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FDA Removes HRT Black Box Warning: What Every Woman in Perimenopause and Menopause Needs to Know in 2026

FDA Removes HRT Black Box Warning: What Every Woman in Perimenopause and Menopause Needs to Know in 2026

The Biggest Shift in Women’s Hormone Health in Over Two Decades Just Happened For more than 20 years, women sitting in their doctors’ offices were handed a verdict: hormone replacement therapy is dangerous. Stay away. The warning was stamped in black on every label, breast cancer, heart disease, dementia. Three of the most feared diagnoses […]

Testosterone Optimization for High-Achieving Men: Beyond Libido — Boosting Energy, Muscle, and Longevity Safely

Testosterone Optimization for High-Achieving Men: Beyond Libido — Boosting Energy, Muscle, and Longevity Safely

For the driven, high-performing man, the early signs of declining testosterone are easy to rationalize away. The afternoon energy crash? Just a busy quarter. The workouts that no longer build muscle the way they used to? Probably age. The flatter mood, the softer midsection, the foggy focus? Stress, surely. Libido tends to be the symptom […]

Why Are So Few Women Using Menopause Hormone Therapy? New Mayo Clinic Study Finds Use Fell to 1.7%

Why Are So Few Women Using Menopause Hormone Therapy? New Mayo Clinic Study Finds Use Fell to 1.7%

A major study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that systemic menopause hormone therapy use in the United States dropped from 4.4% in 2007 to just 1.7% in 2023. The decline is striking because hormone therapy remains the most effective treatment for hot flashes and night sweats. Yet even among women ages 50 to 59, […]

Perimenopause and Menopause Mastery in 2026: Functional Strategies Beyond Hot Flashes for Energy, Mood, and Weight

If you’ve landed here, chances are you already know that perimenopause is far more than the occasional hot flash. You’re waking at 3 a.m. for no reason, your usual workout isn’t touching the weight creeping around your midsection, your mood swings feel unfamiliar, and your focus once razor-sharp now flickers. And when you raised it […]

Testosterone Therapy and Heart Health: What Men Need to Know

For years, testosterone replacement therapy, also called TRT, has been caught in the middle of a loud debate. One side says testosterone therapy is dangerous for the heart. The other side treats it like a magic fix for every man who feels tired, foggy, or less driven than he used to. Both extremes miss the […]

The Longevity Blueprint: Peptides & Metabolic Health with Jim LaValle

Peptides are not magic. They’re signals. And if your body is inflamed, underfed, insulin resistant, sleep-deprived, hormonally off, or running on stress, that signal may not do what you think it will. Jim LaValle, a clinical pharmacist, author, educator, Chief Science Officer at Life Time, Clinical Co-Chair at A4M, and Chair of the International Peptide […]

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