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FDA Commissioner on lifting warnings on hormone therapy for menopause

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· 1 min · 221 words · 2 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "FDA Commissioner on lifting warnings on hormone therapy for menopause", an episode of NPR published November 11, 2025 (1 min, about 221 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including hormone therapy, hormone replacement therapy, breast cancer, progesterone, Mayo Clinic.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 1:23: breast cancer, heart disease, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy

Notable quotes from "FDA Commissioner on lifting warnings on hormone therapy for menopause"

  • Pendulum tipping the other way and there's now going to be an overuse of hormone therapy? Well, tragically, over the last 23 years, 50 million women have been denied or talked…
    about hormone therapy · at
  • Cardiovascular benefits. ear early on in the 1920s, Mayo Clinic researchers noted that young girls who had their ovaries removed went on to have heart disease in their 30s and…
    about Mayo Clinic · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Companies & orgs

Products & tech

  • MPA — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

  • hormone therapy — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • hormone replacement therapy — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Hormone therapy? Well, tragically, over the last 23 years, 50 million women have been denied or talked out of hormone replacement therapy in part because of the fear machine…
  • breast cancer — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    The fear machine that it hormone replacement therapy is a carcinogen. It causes breast cancer. we can argue whether or not the old type of progesterone used called MPA in that…
  • progesterone — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Causes breast cancer. we can argue whether or not the old type of progesterone used called MPA in that original study may have slightly increased the risk of breast cancer in…
  • ovaries — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Benefits. ear early on in the 1920s, Mayo Clinic researchers noted that young girls who had their ovaries removed went on to have heart disease in their 30s and 40s, suggesting…
  • heart disease — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    The 1920s, Mayo Clinic researchers noted that young girls who had their ovaries removed went on to have heart disease in their 30s and 40s, suggesting a profound cardiovascular…
  • 1920s — Concept · 1 mention
  • blackbox warnings — Concept · 1 mention
  • cardiovascular benefits — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

Full transcript with timestamps

there has been this increasing recognition of the health challenges, the very real challenges that women face during menopause. And you and I were talking about the nuance in this conversation earlier. Do you worry at all that by removing this blackbox warning that it might result in the pendulum tipping the other way and there there's now going to be an overuse of hormone therapy? Well, tragically, over the last 23 years, 50 million women have been denied or talked out of hormone replacement therapy in part because of the fear machine that it hormone replacement therapy is a carcinogen. It causes breast cancer. Uh, we can argue whether or not the old type of progesterone used called MPA in that original study may have slightly increased the risk of breast cancer in women who took that uh MPA. But um no clinical trial has ever found that it increases the risk of breast cancer mortality. And if it did, that harm

would be far eclipsed by the profound cardiovascular uh benefits. You know, ear early on in the 1920s, Mayo Clinic researchers noted that young girls who had their ovaries removed went on to have heart disease in their 30s and 40s, suggesting a profound cardiovascular protective effect. And so that's the nuance conversation that people need to have.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "FDA Commissioner on lifting warnings on hormone therapy for menopause"?

In order: 0:00 breast cancer, heart disease, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy.

What is mentioned in this NPR episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including hormone therapy, hormone replacement therapy, breast cancer, progesterone, Mayo Clinic, ovaries. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "FDA Commissioner on lifting warnings on hormone therapy for menopause"?

The episode runs 1 min; the transcript is about 221 words in 2 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated November 17, 2025.