The three hormones your body runs on.
A lecture series by Dr. Bosserman on estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone: what happens when your body loses them, and the evidence behind the fear that keeps women from getting a straight answer. Lecture 1 is free.
The Three Hormones
Dr. Bosserman walks through the three hormones your body runs on, estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone, what each one actually does, and why so much of the fear around them has outrun the evidence.
The Lecture 1 Companion Guide gives you the vocabulary, the tables, and a place to work out which symptoms belong to which hormone.
CHOICES is educational only — not medical advice, diagnosis, or a substitute for individualized care from your own clinician.
What Happens When They’re Taken Away
How these hormones are lost, gradually through menopause or suddenly through surgery, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, or ovarian suppression, and what that loss does throughout the body, the brain and mood, the muscles and bones, the tissues, and intimacy.
“Doctors used to summarize it by the whiny woman in room five. Another symptom, another complaint.”
“Your symptoms are real, and they belong in the conversation. But go prepared.”
Dr. Bosserman, Lecture 2
CHOICES is educational only — not medical advice, diagnosis, or a substitute for individualized care from your own clinician.
Evidence, Not Fear
Maybe you were told that estrogen feeds your cancer, or that hormone therapy is off the table for you. Lecture 3 goes back to where that fear came from, and looks at what the studies actually tested, and in whom, so you can bring better questions to your next appointment.
“How in the heck did everybody start to believe that natural hormones cause breast cancer?”
Dr. Bosserman, Lecture 3
CHOICES is educational only — not medical advice, diagnosis, or a substitute for individualized care from your own clinician.
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Evidence-based hormone, sexual health, and survivorship education for women and clinicians.
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