Vaginal estrogen: a potentially life-saving therapy

Peter Attia · 5 Sept 2026

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Vaginal estrogen is a safe, effective and badly underused therapy for postmenopausal women, and it probably saves lives.

Their wordsFor postmenopausal women—and women with premature estrogen deprivation for other reasons—vaginal estrogen is a safe and highly effective therapy to alleviate the genitourinary syndrome of menopause, prevent recurrent UTIs, and likely to save lives.

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