Henry Wu, MD
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Henry Wu, MD
@drhenrywu.bsky.social
Hormone expert for menopause & andropause | Board-certified physician | 📚 Author | Holistic Anti-Aging specialist | Prevent chronic disease | Uplift vitality & quality longevity🌿 | Let’s unlock your best self! 💪
FDA has officially removed the misleading Black Box Warning on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after 20+ years.

Midlife women deserves evidence, not fear.

If you care about menopause, longevity, and evidence-based hormone replacement therapy, this update is essential.

Drops your thoughts below.
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
FDA has officially removed the misleading Black Box Warning on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after 20+ years.

Midlife women deserves evidence, not fear.

If you care about menopause, longevity, and evidence-based hormone replacement therapy, this update is essential.

Drops your thoughts below.
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
When estrogen falls during menopausal transition, women experience high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.

These increase risks of cardiovascular diseases like heart attack, stroke, dementia, diabetes, and even cancers.

Hormone optimization is crucial.
January 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Estrogen is so import for women.

When entering menopause, estrogen level falls, and metabolism declines.

So women experience weight gain easily, especially fat gain around the waist, despite the same diet and exercise.

Never neglect the power of hormones.
January 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Studies show that hormone replacement therapy(HRT) is the most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disorders, genitourinary symptoms, among others.

Midlife women don't have to suffer.

HRT helps you feel yourself again.
January 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hormone optimization does many benefits:

• Relieves menopausal and andropausal symptoms
• Prevents chronic diseases (heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, dementia, bone loss, etc.)
• Promotes vitality and quality of life

How wonderful it is!
January 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
With advancement in science and medicine, longevity won't be a problem in the near future. Quality is.

We don't want to just add years, we want to add life to years.

We want healthspan, more than lifespan.
January 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Preventive medicine without hormone optimization is incomplete.
January 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Hormones are beneficial, not harmful.

Losing hormones is harmful.

Hormone optimization is the key to optimal health.
January 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, are crucial for our metabolism and health.

They decline as we age.

When hormones decline , we lose metabolism, so we gain fat.

When we gain fat, inflammation increases, raising the risk of chronic diseases.
January 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
How to increase your metabolism?

Increase your muscle.

To increase your muscle, you have to exercise.

People start to lose muscle after 30s, it's nature.

If you don't train your muscle, you lose it. When you lose muscle, you lose metabolism.

Muscle is beneficial.

Losing muscle is harmful.
December 31, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Metabolism is the key to our health.

Metabolism declines gradually as we age, especially after midlife 40.

When metabolism decreases, fat accumulates easily around the waist leading to chronic inflammation.

We want to maintain, even increase, our metabolism as much as we possibly can.
December 25, 2024 at 3:40 AM
In controlling chronic diseases,
it's not 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 you get that matters.
It's 𝐇𝐎𝐖 you get it.
Example:
You can easily lower your cholesterol by taking drugs(statins).
But you can still have a heart attack if you don't address the root cause – inflammation, by addressing your lifestyle factors.
December 24, 2024 at 4:15 AM
In controlling chronic diseases,
it's not 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 you get that matters.
It's 𝐇𝐎𝐖 you get it.
Example:
You can easily lower your cholesterol by taking drugs(statins).
But you can still have a heart attack if you don't address the root cause – inflammation, by addressing your lifestyle factors.
December 24, 2024 at 2:09 AM
In pursuing optimal health,

we should chase the outcome,

not the surrogate markers.
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Listen to the patient.

Treat the patient, not the numbers.

And treat the patient as a whole.
December 23, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Chronic diseases are getting rampant nowadays.

Genetics indeed plays a part, a minor part.

You can't change your genetics,

However, you can change how your genetics express by focusing on the Four major parts in your daily life:

• Diet
• Exercise
• Sleep
• Stress
December 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Don't get satisfied when your doctors tell you "your test is normal, you are fine".

A "normal" blood test doesn't truly reflect your overall health.

Ask yourself,

"How do I truly feel today?"

It's the quality of life that matters.

And only you have the answer.
December 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
When interpreting the health exam blood test numbers,

Keep this in mind:

Normal is not Optimal.

Normal is being within the range of average.

Optimal is when you feel the best without symptoms or signs.

We want Optimal health, not just Average health.
December 18, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Longevity is not a problem.

Quality is.
December 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM