Hormone replacement therapy Archives - Peter Attia

Does hormone replacement therapy impact dementia risk?

Peter Attia — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:00:13 +0000

A recent case-control study reports that menopausal hormone therapy is associated with increased risk of dementia, but results have little relevance for modern clinical practice

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#291 ‒ The role of testosterone in males and females, performance-enhancing drugs, sustainable fat loss, supplements, and more | Derek, More Plates More Dates Pt.2

Peter Attia — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:45:03 +0000

“These things can all move the needle [on testosterone] like 100+ ng/dL potentially, depending on how deficient you are. So some of these are low hanging fruits with the sleep, micronutrients, minerals, actual macro intake.” —Derek, More Plates More Dates

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Is testosterone replacement therapy both safe and effective in men with higher cardiovascular risk factors?

Peter Attia — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

An assessment of the results from the long-awaited TRAVERSE trial

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#275 – AMA #52: Hormone replacement therapy: practical applications and the role of compounding pharmacies

Peter Attia — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:45:51 +0000

“The sum total of lives that have been saved due to less breast cancer as a result from the lack of HRT for the past 20 years is exactly zero.” —Peter Attia

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#259 – Women’s sexual health: Why it matters, what can go wrong, and how to fix it | Sharon Parish, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:45:34 +0000

"I can't tell you how many women soldier on either avoiding sex or in pain because they don't either know or feel validated to seek treatment." —Sharon Parish

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#256 ‒ The endocrine system: exploring thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones | Peter Attia, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 29 May 2023 08:45:44 +0000

In this special episode of The Drive, Peter provides a comprehensive overview of the various endocrine systems: the thyroid system, the adrenal system, and the sex hormone system (for both men and women). He walks through the basic biology and the feedback cycles that regulate the production of these hormones and discusses the various options…

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Clearing the air on hormone replacement therapy

Peter Attia — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:45 +0000

My recent podcast with Dr. JoAnn Manson evidently raised as many questions about HRT as it answered, so let’s take a closer look at the evidence for risks and benefits.

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#222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:45:12 +0000

“It's really important that we be willing to change our beliefs about nutrition and other aspects of health as more data comes in.” —Matt Kaeberlein

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#204 – Centenarians, metformin, and longevity | Nir Barzilai, M.D.

Peter Attia — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:45:21 +0000

“If you prevent aging and age-related disease, you're going to compress morbidity, too.” — Nir Barzilai

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#196 – AMA #32: Exercise, squats, deadlifts, BFR, and TRT

Peter Attia — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:45:52 +0000

“You have to differentiate between signal and noise. . .it's easy to say testosterone causes heart disease just like it's easy to say estrogen causes breast cancer. But if you're actually going to go through all of the data. . .I think it becomes very difficult to make that case.” —Peter Attia

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#180 – AMA #28: All things testosterone and testosterone replacement therapy

Peter Attia — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:45:30 +0000

“There were countless other studies to look at, but they all basically point in the same direction, which is testosterone replacement therapy improves lean mass, reduces fat mass, improves strength.” —Peter Attia

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#120 – AMA with Dom D’Agostino, Ph.D., Part II of II: Ketosis for cancer and chronic disease, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and the effect of ketosis on female health

Peter Attia — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:45:22 +0000

"The function of the mitochondria and mitochondrial health are the ultimate mitigator of neurodegenerative diseases...just by reducing the potential for reactive oxygen species related damage." — Dom D’Agostino

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#84 – AMA #10: Low testosterone, hypothyroidism, building muscle (and preserving it while fasting)

Peter Attia — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:45:26 +0000

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Can you preserve lean body mass during “semi-starvation?”

Peter Attia — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:18:14 +0000

All of this is very interesting, but what I find much more interesting in this study is that the placebo group did not lose any substantive LBM, while losing about the same amount of fat (10 lb) as the testosterone group, despite the severe CR/energy-deficit.

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