I'm Dr. Michelle Davis. I've been a Physician for 19 years in Washington.
Last year, I was drowning in my own menopause hell.
Hot flashes during patient visits that left me sweating through my lab coat.
Anxiety attacks so bad I questioned whether I could still practice medicine.
Sleeping two hours a night and snapping at everyone.
I was becoming someone I didn't recognize, and I had no idea how to help myself.
Then I attended a women's health conference that changed everything.
A researcher presented findings that mainstream medicine had buried since the 1900s.
The study followed 5,000 menopausal women for 20 years.
Half received one type of hormone support. Half got standard treatment.
The results were shocking.
Women who got the "forgotten" hormone support kept their personalities, slept through the night, and felt like themselves throughout menopause.
Women who got standard treatment suffered for years with symptoms just like yours.
The researcher's funding disappeared overnight.
The study was pulled from medical journals.
Drug companies had zero interest in something they couldn't patent and sell.
But I managed to get a copy of that research.
What I learned didn't just change how I treat patients.
It saved me from disappearing completely.
The "forgotten" hormone wasn't estrogen.
It was something doctors stopped paying attention to decades ago - even though it controls whether you feel like yourself or like a stranger.