When most people think about hormone replacement therapy, they think about hot flashes and night sweats. But mood disturbances during the menopause transition affect up to 68% of women. Depressed mood. Anxiety. Irritability. Mental exhaustion. And for most of those women, nobody has connected tho... View Post

A study just published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine in August 2026 out of Baylor College of Medicine and Newson Research is one I want every woman on hormone therapy to read. Because it directly addresses one of the most common and most frustrating clinical scenarios I see: the woman who is... View Post

If you're in menopause and gaining weight despite eating the same way you've always have, exercising consistently, and doing everything you've been told to do — you're not failing. The advice is failing you. The standard guidance around diet and exercise was largely developed in research populati... View Post

If you have been researching hormone therapy online or have friends who are on hormones, there is a good chance you have heard about testosterone pellets. They are heavily marketed, they have enthusiastic advocates, and the pitch sounds appealing — a small implant inserted under the skin every fe... View Post

For decades, women were told the same thing: hormone replacement therapy was a short-term fix. Five years maximum. Get through the worst of it and then get off. The goal was the lowest dose for the shortest possible time. That guidance shaped an entire generation of medical practice — and left mi... View Post

When most people think of menopause, they think of two things: hot flashes and night sweats. And yes, those are real and they are common. But they represent a tiny fraction of what the hormonal transition of perimenopause and menopause can actually do to the human body. Every week at The Lee Clin... View Post

When women start learning about hormone therapy, estrogen gets most of the attention. And testosterone is finally having its moment. But progesterone? It quietly sits in the background, underloved and underappreciated — even though for many women, it's the first hormone to decline and the one who... View Post

Testosterone is not a male hormone. It's a human hormone — and women make it their entire adult lives. It plays a quiet but critical role in how you feel, think, move, and function. And like estrogen and progesterone, it declines with age. Most women lose testosterone gradually through their 30s... View Post