Kate Muir in the Daily Mail today

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Sorry that it's a daily fail link - but I found this perspective interesting.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10411819/Why-doctors-know-little-natural-HRT-stop-menopause-wrecking-life.html

Yes, I saw it. I flick around the papers in the morning before work.
Worried me at first as on tablets which she calls old fashioned. Think the ones I am on have an OK progesterone (femoston) after yet another panicked google!

I find it incredible that she states there's 'a treatment that avoids risks and barely anyone knows it's available on the nhs' then cites body indentured HRT, ie oestrogel and utrogestan which I thought was the gold standard nowadays and common knowledge that it is widely available on the nhs?

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Whilst it's certainly out there I don't think it is necessarily common knowledge to lots of women, and possibly not to GPs either.

Doctors know very little about the menopause full stop. They have almost no training on it whatsoever. Hardly surprising then, that they don't know much about remedies, natural or otherwise.

When you consider that half the population will have a menopause, it's a disgrace really.