Estrogen replacement therapy, commonly known as hormone replacement therapy, is meant to give women hormones in an effort to treat or prevent the symptoms of certain conditions or the actual condition itself. The most common condition is menopause; the therapy is used to replace the hormones that a woman’s body no longer makes after menopause. Menopause is a time in a woman’s life when she goes through many physical and often emotional changes; typically, hormone levels fluctuate up and down, causing menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and irritability. The goal of estrogen replacement therapy is to relieve these symptoms through the use of hormones. All
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