Everyone's talking about hormone therapy for menopause. Should I be on it?

I keep seeing posts all over social media talking up menopausal hormone therapy as a cure-all. But I'm also seeing a lot of less-than-scientific misinformation out there that over-promises on what menopausal hormone therapy can do. Here's what the science says about menopausal hormone therapy — and what we don't yet know. Why the pendulum has swung on hormone therapyWhen I was in medical school in the 2010s, I learned that hormone therapy could be dangerous. The bottom lineJust because menopause hormone therapy is much safer than doctors believed in the 2000s doesn't mean it's a cure-all.