
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
206. Dr. Pamela Smith: The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy—HRT, Menopause & Cancer Risk
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Hormones influence far more than reproductive health. They affect your sleep, mood, metabolism, muscle, bone health, brain function, stress response, and how you age —yet hormone health is still often reduced to a handful of numbers on a standard blood test. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Pamela Smith , a physician who has spent decades practicing and teaching personalized medicine, to break down what women and men need to understand about hormone replacement therapy, healthy aging, and disease prevention. We explore estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, thyroid hormones, insulin, and one hormone many people have never even heard of: pregnenolone. More importantly, we…