Ask Dr. Sarah: Does HRT Prevent Osteoporosis?

If you’re in your 30s, 40s or 50s and starting to hear more about osteoporosis, you’re not alone—and you’re asking a smart question. One of the most common concerns I hear from women is: Does hormone replacement therapy (HRT) help prevent osteoporosis? The answer is important, especially during perimenopause and menopause when bone loss can accelerate rapidly.

Understanding the Options for Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has become a hot topic—and for good reason. As more women prioritize their long-term health, energy, and vitality, they’re looking for real, lasting solutions to the hormonal drops that can happen anytime in life and become especially pronounced in perimenopause and menopause.

Will Hormone Replacement Therapy Help Me Lose Weight? | Ask Dr. Sarah | Inner Balance

If you’ve been asking yourself, “Will hormone replacement therapy help me lose weight?”—you’re not alone. For so many women, weight gain around perimenopause and menopause feels frustrating, confusing, and at times, completely out of their control.

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy: Facts, Pros, and Cons

If you’ve been researching hormone replacement therapy (HRT), chances are you’ve come across the term bioidentical hormones more than once. Maybe your friends are on them. Or maybe you stumbled across them while trying to make sense of the symptoms that don’t feel “normal” for your age—fatigue, brain fog, mood swings, weight gain, disrupted sleep, heavy painful periods, or loss of libido.

Before and After Hormone Replacement Therapy: 6 Women’s Stories

There’s a powerful cultural shift happening around hormone enrichment for women. What was once seen merely as a “treatment to get through menopause” is now being recognized for what it truly is: a foundational tool for long-term vitality. We now understand that the aging process accelerates as sex hormones decline—and that decline begins as early as our 30s.

Hormone Replacement Therapy: How it Works

You’ve probably heard about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Maybe your best friend swears by it, or a coworker mentioned how it changed her life. Or perhaps you’ve been up late, scrolling through articles, looking for solutions to the brain fog, the weight gain, or the sleep that seems to elude you more often than not. If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Mood, Anxiety & Depression

Emotional well-being and mental health is just as important as any other aspect of health.   However, women after 40 report higher rates of irritability, anxiety, depression and inability to concentrate.