{"id":2782,"date":"2008-05-29T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/if-you-just-say-no-to-hrt-then-what.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:36:05","slug":"if-you-just-say-no-to-hrt-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"If you Just Say NO to HRT &#8230; then what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SD7PTHynDjI\/AAAAAAAAABg\/Lnsw7NH5FA8\/s1600-h\/medication.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=352625802  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205826146702659122\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SD7PTHynDjI\/AAAAAAAAABg\/Lnsw7NH5FA8\/s200\/medication.jpg?w=735\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I just wanted to add in <a href=\"http:\/\/holisticonline.com\/remedies\/hrt\/hrt_food_diet.htm\">this link to a site <\/a>that goes over the foods that can help with the symptoms of menopause without increasing your risk of cancer and stroke.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I like this resource because it relies on foods, rather than drugs that can increase your risk of cancer and stroke, to solve the problem.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Eating real foods is not nearly as sexy as a research project, but it is also not something that will ever make you plaintiff 679 of a class action law suit because you took a pill that increased your chances of getting cancer and stroke. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the point. Do what you know is right, not what you HOPE won&#8217;t turn out do you harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to add in this link to a site that goes over the foods that can help with the symptoms of menopause without increasing your risk of cancer &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494,227],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-culture-of-health","tag-hrt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-IS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2289,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2289","url_meta":{"origin":2782,"position":0},"title":"HRT drugs &#8211;> breast cancer deaths","author":"Will Clower","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it worth it? 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