S4 Ep198: Preventing Dementia: Estrogen? Testosterone? Prevogen?

Preventing Dementia: Estrogen? Testosterone? Prevogen™?

On November 10, 2025, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Marty Markary, along with the head of the FDA, RFK Jr, announced that hormone therapy would “reduce Alzheimer’s by 35%." 
Where does that statistic come from? And should all women take hormone therapy to stave off dementia later in life? 
In this episode, I take a deep dive into the science of hormone therapy and  Prevogen™...and what you can do to decrease the risk of Alzheimer's disease by almost 50%. 

• The impact of hormone therapy on cognition in different phases of life
• Current scientific studies to determine if it is beneficial to  take hormone therapy to prevent Alzheimers
• How best to measure the risk of Alzheimer’s
• The “Science” behind  Prevogen
• How OTC neutraceuticals get past the FDA
• Action steps to decrease the risk of Alzheimers

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Lauren Streicher MD, is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. 

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 
 

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