Still HotIssue 000 — June 2026
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Hot.

For the women medicine forgot to study — and never got around to telling.

HRT prescriptions in Sweden — the collapse after 2002
1995
25%
2002
15%
2005
7%
Today
5%

A misread study in 2002 halved prescriptions within three years. The data has since been corrected. The prescriptions have not recovered.

Source: Karolinska Institutet, ki.se, 2026

94%
received no education about menopause in school
10 yrs
perimenopause can last up to a decade
45%
found it difficult to access reliable information
34
documented symptoms — most women name fewer than five
There are 34 documented symptoms of perimenopause. Most women cannot name five.
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Founding statement

You were never supposed to know. That ends here.

Somewhere in the last thirty years, a study was misread, a headline was written, and millions of women were left to suffer in silence. Not by accident. By a failure of science, media, and medicine so complete that most women today still do not know it happened.

"The average participant in that study was 67. The average age of menopause is 52. They studied the wrong women entirely — and the world acted on it anyway."

Today in Sweden, only 5% of women receive menopausal hormone therapy. In the mid-nineties it was one in four. The difference is not medical. It is not evidence-based. It is the long shadow of a misread study and a media cycle that nobody ever properly corrected.

Still Hot is not a wellness platform. This is the place where you find what you were always entitled to: accurate, sourced, plainly written information about what is happening in your body. No supplements. No sponsored content. No soft language designed to make an unacceptable situation feel acceptable.

Trusted voices

Where to go next.

These are the sources Still Hot draws on. Each one is independently produced, evidence-based, and worth your time.

Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
GP & menopause specialist · Founder, Newson Health & Balance app · Sunday Times bestselling author

Weekly evidence-based conversations with leading clinicians on perimenopause, menopause, HRT and hormones. Over 8 million downloads. The single best audio resource in this space.

Book
Dr Avrum Bluming & Dr Carol Tavris
Estrogen Matters (2024, revised ed.)
Hematologist & oncologist · Emeritus Clinical Professor, USC · Former senior investigator, National Cancer Institute

The definitive takedown of the WHI scandal. Bluming and Tavris dismantle the flawed science that led millions of women to be denied treatment. Naomi Watts: "the bible for every single person going through menopause."

Dermatology · Featured on Dr Newson Podcast
Dr Sajjad Rajpar
Hormones, skin & hair in perimenopause
Consultant Dermatologist, Midland Skin · FRCP · "Skin Guru," Balance app · Author, ABC of Skin Cancer

The leading clinical voice on what oestrogen decline actually does to skin and hair — and why most skincare marketed at menopausal women entirely misses the point.

OB/GYN · Book · Featured on Dr Newson Podcast
Dr Susan Hardwick-Smith
Sexually Woke (2020)
OB/GYN & menopause specialist · Founder, Complete Midlife Wellness Center, Houston · Texas Superdoctor 19 times

A US gynecologist who went through menopause herself, couldn't find the answers, and built a clinic and a book around what she found. Interviewed by Dr Newson on testosterone and why women are still denied treatment.

Sources
Lumsden et al. (2025). ESE Clinical Practice Guideline for Menopause and the Perimenopause. European Journal of Endocrinology, 193(4), G49–G81.NICE NG23 (updated November 2024). Menopause: identification and management. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.Karolinska Institutet (2026). Unwarranted fears should not be an obstacle to treatment. ki.seBluming, A. & Tavris, C. (2024). Estrogen Matters, revised ed. Hachette Book Group.Carrot / Ipsos (2025). The Menopause Report: 2025 trends and statistics. get-carrot.com