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Menopause Misinformation: Influencer culture, "functional" medicine, and menopause.

Menopause Misinformation: Influencer culture, "functional" medicine, and menopause.

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May 23, 2021
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We need to talk about menopause misinformation online.

This is actually one reason I became interested in being active in a public space about medical facts and quality data. I would see women in the office who were convinced that the topical progesterone they were given was ground up yams and that it was a useful therapy, or who had spend tens of thousa…

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