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Good question, and yes, they're the same thing (just different terminology)!
MHT = Menopausal Hormone Therapy
HRT = Hormone Replacement Therapy
The medical field has been shifting from "HRT" to "MHT" because:
1. More accurate: You're not really "replacing" hormones to pre-menopausal levels - you're using hormones therapeutically to manage menopausal symptoms
2. Less misleading: "Replacement" implies getting back to what was there before, but dosing is usually lower and the goal is symptom management, not full replacement
3. Broader application: MHT is more specific to menopause, whereas HRT could technically refer to any hormone therapy (like thyroid, testosterone, etc.)
In practice, most people still use both terms interchangeably, and patients recognize "HRT" more readily since that's what's been in public discourse for decades.
Welcome. What you'll find in this space lives in different tones because I do. Some weeks I'll pop in with commentary on current events (like this one). Some days I'll pull you into a patient's story like you're in the room watching medicine happen. Other weeks we'll massage theory into a poultice, something you can hold. Sometimes I'll give you the protocol straight. Sometimes the writing arrives raw and honest ~ I call it: 3am honesty with daytime clarity. And sometimes it's just me, Aïcha, talking like we're texting at dawn, so casual you might forget this is medicine at all.
That's when it works best.
All of it comes from the same place: twenty-something years of watching bodies speak a language most people were never taught to hear. The rhythm shifts with the seasons, with what you need, and with what wants to be said.
Stay. The medicine is just beginning. Subscribe if you haven't already.
Is MHT the same as HRT?
Good question, and yes, they're the same thing (just different terminology)!
MHT = Menopausal Hormone Therapy
HRT = Hormone Replacement Therapy
The medical field has been shifting from "HRT" to "MHT" because:
1. More accurate: You're not really "replacing" hormones to pre-menopausal levels - you're using hormones therapeutically to manage menopausal symptoms
2. Less misleading: "Replacement" implies getting back to what was there before, but dosing is usually lower and the goal is symptom management, not full replacement
3. Broader application: MHT is more specific to menopause, whereas HRT could technically refer to any hormone therapy (like thyroid, testosterone, etc.)
In practice, most people still use both terms interchangeably, and patients recognize "HRT" more readily since that's what's been in public discourse for decades.