The Article that Launched a Thousand Ships

On February 1, 2023, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Susan Dominus entitled, “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause.” It was a bit of a watershed moment in terms of menopause awareness. It’s not as if people hadn’t talked/written/screamed about menopause before, but this was next level attention. The article starts from a first-person perspective, the real-life perimenopausal experiences of Susan and her friends—the symptoms, the frustrating lack of answers from their doctors—and expands to offer a comprehensive overview of how the WHI tanked the use of HRT. If you need a digestible primer on how the medical establishment failed peri/menopausal women, start here.