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The Friday Briefing
friday@herclarity.health · 2026-05-10
Issue No. 042
This week

A small study, a big rewrite of the HRT story.

The 2026 Mayo Clinic re-analysis quietly narrowed the elevated-risk window for combined HRT. Plain-English summary, plus what to ask if you’re on it.

Also inside this issue
  • Three sentencesto bring to your GP if you’re currently on combined HRT.
  • One graphthat tells the absolute-risk story better than any headline.
  • One questionfrom a reader: “Is DEXA appropriate at 47?”
Read time · 4 minutes. Studies cited · 3.
The archive

Three recent briefings.

Issue No. 042 · 2026-05-10

A small study, a big rewrite of the HRT story.

The 2026 Mayo Clinic re-analysis quietly narrowed the elevated-risk window for combined HRT. Plain-English summary, plus what to ask if you’re on it.

Issue No. 041 · 2026-05-03

The bone-density gap nobody is closing.

Why DEXA scans are still being deferred until 65 — and what the data says about screening earlier in perimenopause.

Issue No. 040 · 2026-04-26

“Your bloodwork is normal.” What that sentence is actually measuring — and missing.

A walk through the standard CBC + CMP your GP runs, with what it does and doesn’t catch about the perimenopausal transition.

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  • One email Friday morning, ~7 a.m. Eastern.
  • One study summarised, in plain English, with the citation.
  • One sentence you can bring to your appointment that week.
  • Reader questions answered, sometimes anonymously.
  • Roughly 4-minute read.
What you won’t get
  • A second email Tuesday.
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