Hormone replacement therapy during menopause prevents osteoporosis. If used early, they counteract bone loss.
Since the 1960s, so-called hormone replacement therapy has been prescribed to women with severe menopausal symptoms. The internist and author Dr. med. Helena Orfanos-Boeckel explains in an interview why she supports hormone therapy to preserve bones in women. For example, for a woman who is in her early 50s and is already showing genetic signs of osteopenia in bone density measurements, the precursor to osteopsorosis, I would advise a preventative administration of transdermal estradiol, accompanied by progesterone.