by Kharrazian Institute | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog
In 2002, researchers published the results of the Women’s Health Initiative, a massive clinical trial designed to investigate the effects of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) on postmenopausal women. The study claimed that hormone replacement therapy significantly...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jun 23, 2026 | Blog
During a 2012 urgent care meet-and-greet, a woman visited Randy Vawdrey, NP-C, complaining of heartburn-like symptoms. Because she didn’t have insurance at the time, she couldn’t pay for expensive testing (such as an EKG). After going through a list of standard...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jun 9, 2026 | Blog
Menopause affects every woman on the planet, yet appropriate care for menopause remains lacking for most patients. Certain symptoms of menopause, for example, routinely go ignored and untreated. Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is an unfortunate example of...
by Kharrazian Institute | May 26, 2026 | Blog
Menopause is something literally every woman will experience in her lifetime, yet it is still too often misunderstood in the clinical setting. Doctors tend to default to viewing menopause either as a series of unrelated conditions or a trivial symptom of aging, when...
by Kharrazian Institute | Apr 7, 2026 | Blog
Those of us who live in first-world countries rarely think of malnutrition as a condition that affects us. Yet you might be surprised to learn that it is rampant in hospitals, with between 20 and 50 percent of patients being malnourished upon admission. And for those...
