Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
'Over my dead body.' That's what one woman in India was told when she asked her gynaecologist about hormone treatments (HRT).
Sanjith Shetty, founder of the menopause community @mirorforwomen, told me about a friend of his, a mother of two, who heard those words from a doctor she trusted completely and now there's no way she'll ask again.
Hormones are just chemical messengers and hormone treatments simply replace what the body has stopped making, so when something that simple gets forgotten, people fill the gap with fear instead. That's exactly what's happened to HRT in India, among patients and healthcare professionals alike, and it's costing women years of unnecessary suffering.
'Over my dead body.' That's what one woman in India was told when she asked her gynaecologist about hormone treatments (HRT).
Sanjith Shetty, founder of the menopause community @mirorforwomen, told me about a friend of his, a mother of two, who heard those words from a doctor she trusted completely and now there's no way she'll ask again.
Hormones are just chemical messengers and hormone treatments simply replace what the body has stopped making, so when something that simple gets forgotten, people fill the gap with fear instead. That's exactly what's happened to HRT in India, among patients and healthcare professionals alike, and it's costing women years of unnecessary suffering.
