Empowered Women's Health & Wellness

03/02/2026

We will be CLOSED 3/3/26 due to flooding. We hope to return 3/4/26 but will keep you posted! Please call (443) 493-7575 with questions or concerns!

03/02/2026

PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR APPOINTMENT AT (443) 493-7575!!!

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Thank you for supporting a practice that values your time---and everyone else's.

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02/27/2026

02/27/2026

THIS!!!!

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02/26/2026

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02/24/2026

We are closed today, Tuesday 2/24/26.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

We will return Wednesday 2/25/26.

02/22/2026

We will be CLOSED MONDAY 2/23/26 due to the weather.

If you are scheduled for an appointment, we will be in contact to reschedule.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

02/22/2026

THIS

Hormone Therapy Is Not the Villain It Was Made Out to Be.

A 2025 secondary analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative looked specifically at women with vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes) and cardiovascular risk. And here’s what matters:

👉 Women ages 50–59 with moderate to severe symptoms had NO significant increase in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Hazard ratio 0.85 (estrogen alone) and 0.84 (estrogen + progestin). In other words? Neutral. 

👉 Women 60–69 also did not show a clear signal of harm.
Yes, estimates trended up slightly in one arm, but confidence intervals crossed 1.0. Not statistically significant. so stop saying starting after ten years post menopause is so so dangerous. Even with oral prempro up to age 69 it was not.

👉 The increased cardiovascular risk signal was seen in women 70 and older — and this group had very small numbers with vasomotor symptoms.
In the estrogen-alone trial, only 220 women age 70–79 had moderate/severe symptoms.
In the estrogen + progestin trial, only 172 women age 70–79 had moderate/severe symptoms. 

That’s fewer than 200 women in one arm — yet that age group often gets generalized to all hormone therapy conversations.

Let’s zoom out.

✨ Absolute risks in younger women were low.
✨ No increased all-cause mortality in women 50–59 with symptoms.
✨ Hormone therapy reduced moderate/severe hot flashes by ~41%. 
✨ The data supports guideline recommendations: initiate within 10 years of menopause or before age 60 and risk benefit discussion after age 69. This paper but actually suggests that “you can’t do it” because of significant risk is not as evidence based as you would think.

The original 2002 WHI headlines scared an entire generation.

But when you actually read the data:
• Age matters.
• Time since menopause matters.
• Baseline cardiovascular health matters.
• Absolute risk matters.

Hormone therapy is not “dangerous.”
It is a medical therapy with specific indications, timing considerations, and patient selection.

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.4510

02/22/2026

02/22/2026

If you knew your symptoms could last 7 to 10 years, would you just sit and suffer? Probably not. And you shouldn’t have to.
Too many women are told to push through perimenopause and menopause symptoms, but suffering is not a treatment plan. You deserve answers, options, and care that helps you feel like yourself again.
Check out jointhecollaborative.com and get matched with a Collaborative clinician who can walk you through your symptoms and your options.

02/22/2026

02/22/2026