Your Statin, Your Brain, and a Governor Who Actually Showed Up
This episode covers three developments at the intersection of menopause and brain health, cardiovascular risk, and workplace policy. A new NAMS journal study finds statins may be adding to the cognitive and symptom burden postmenopausal women already carry — and that the overlap is almost certainly being misread. A separate study shows that APOE4 carriers may not get the same brain-protective benefits from estrogen that other women do, which matters enormously for how we think about HRT and Alzheimer's risk. And Washington State's governor just signed an Executive Order making menopause…
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