Carol Tavris

So psychologists and therapists have many beliefs and theories and approaches that they use that have little basis in scientific evidence, and there's a divide.

Carol Tavris talks about this, the divide between scientists clinical work and science.

And where are you on

that? I'm more science oriented, so all the psychological research on memory and things like that, and then there's the people who are more the clinician researchers, the people who actually do these evaluations, who are doing you know, what I criticize, what I say we basically can't do, which is listen to a child tell you a story and decide whether it's true or false.

For more than three decades, Dr. Blooming has been studying the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy administered to women with a history of breast cancer.

His book with Dr. Carol Tavris, Estrogen Matters, Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives, without raising the risk of cancer, has, along with controversy, been received with praise and support from researchers, physicians, and thousands of grateful women around the world.

And I have goosebumps reading this.

I hope you enjoy this prolific and powerful conversation.

So what's the most important context that she's missing about absolute risk, relative risk and mortality?

Well, this answer isn't meant to be a plug, but it is a plug.

The reason Carol Tavris a wonderful social psychologist and I wrote Estrogen Matters, which is a book that we wrote in 2018 with a second edition coming that came out in 2024.

We wrote the book is because it requires a book to answer that question intelligently, not just throw off some pithy answer.

This is the missing layer under it.

So listen, how do we make our decision for estrogen optimization based on facts not fear? Well, as I always say, you need to read Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris's book Estrogen Matters.

Read it.

Just do it.