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If you're on HRT, or you've ever been frightened off it, there's a bit of history nobody's ever told you, and it changes everything about the decision you've made, or the one you're trying to make. Because the whole story of HRT, how it rose, how it crashed, and what's actually true about it today, is one of the maddest tales I've ever come across. And once you know it, you see the whole thing differently. Stick with me, because whether you're on the hormones or dead set against them, this matters to you more than you'd think. Let me take you back to the start of it. Back in the 1940s, they worked out you could give a woman her hormones back when the menopause took them. Oestrogen, in a tablet. And to them it was like magic. The hot flushes settled, the moods lifted, women felt like themselves again. It flew off the shelves. For years it was the biggest-selling medicine in all of America, full stop. Women went on it, stayed on it, happy as anything. And then it all came crashing down. In the 1990s somebody sensibly said, hang on, we've never properly tested this. So they ran the biggest trial there'd ever been, thousands of women, to settle once and for all whether it was safe. And partway through, in 2002, they stopped it dead. Because the early results looked frightening. The headlines screamed that this stuff raised your risk of breast cancer. Heart disease. The lot. Well. Can you imagine. Panic, overnight. And it wasn't just over there, our doctors dropped it just the same. I always picture some woman sat having her eggs on toast one morning, reading that headline over her breakfast, and deciding right there she'd never take another tablet as long as she lived. Millions of women, that exact morning. A whole generation frightened right off it, and told to just grin and bear the menopause instead. And that was that, near enough, for the best part of twenty years. Now here's the bit that got me, and it's why I'm sat here telling you all this. That frightening trial? It had a great big hole in it. The women they'd studied were mostly in their seventies and eighties. Women twenty, thirty years past their menopause, put on hormones for the first time, on the old strong formulas they used back then. And of course that didn't sit right with their bodies. You can't put something back decades after it's gone and expect it to slot in nicely. But that's a world away from the woman happily taking it at 50. They put off millions of women in their forties and fifties, on the back of a study done on women old enough to be their mothers. They've since gone back and looked at it all properly, and the picture today is nothing like that old headline. Taken at the right time, around the menopause itself, it's helping millions of women this very day, and doing it well. 😤 But twenty years were lost. Twenty years of women told to just get on with it, for nothing. It makes you cross when you think about it. So why am I sat here giving you a history lesson. Because going down that rabbit hole taught me something. The official story about our hormones has been wrong before, for twenty whole years. And it made me wonder what else about the menopause we're just not being told. So I stopped taking the official story at face value and started reading properly for myself, about what oestrogen actually does in a woman's body. Not just the headlines, the hot flushes and the moods. All of it. And I'll tell you now, hand on heart, I'm on the HRT myself, and I'll defend it to anyone. It's absolutely brilliant. It gave me my sleep back, my moods, my sanity near enough. Best thing I ever did, and I'd not come off it for the world. But here's the honest truth of it, and nobody tells you this bit. There are things the HRT simply doesn't touch. My joints still ached every morning. My skin stayed dry and dull no matter what I put on it. And my hair, if anything, got worse rather than better. I remember thinking, I've done the big scary thing, I've gone on the hormones, so why am I still creaking down the stairs looking tired and washed out? And it turned out the answer was sat right there in my reading. Because here's the thing the famous story never mentions, the bit that fell down the back of all those headlines. Your oestrogen was never just about hot flushes and moods. One of the biggest jobs it was doing, all those years, was keeping your body making collagen. And collagen, I always thought that was a face cream word, something daft off the telly. It is not. It's the scaffolding that holds the whole of you together. The cushioning in your joints. What keeps your skin plump, and your hair anchored in strong. So when your hormones drop away in the menopause, your collagen falls off a cliff right alongside them. You lose over a third of it in the first five years. That's the achey joints. That's the dry skin. That's the thinning hair. All of it, one missing thing. And that's why even the HRT couldn't touch those three. It tops your hormones back up, and thank goodness it does. But it doesn't put the lost collagen back. That was never its job. It was never going to crawl into my knees and rebuild the cushioning, or up into my scalp and thicken my hair. A different problem, needing a different answer. The hormones were one half of what the menopause took. The collagen was the other half, the physical half. The joints, the skin, the hair. And that half, you have to put back yourself. Which, it turns out, you can. And it's about as natural and non-invasive as it comes. A scoop in your morning cuppa. No prescription, no procedure, nothing done to you at all. I did try the other so-called natural routes first, mind. The herbal bits, your black cohosh, your evening primrose oil. Months of them, next to nothing to show. The creams that promise the world for your skin and your sore joints, all sat on the surface doing nothing, because the problem was underneath, where a cream can't reach. None of them were putting anything back. That's the difference. The one that actually does, the one I landed on after all my digging, and the one so many of the women I'd been talking to were already taking, is called Elavate. 💪 It's a proper dose, over 8 grams a scoop, when most of the tubs in the shops give you a measly 1 or 2. It's got more than one type of collagen in it, marine and bovine, because your skin and your joints each need a different sort, and the cheap ones only bother with one. And it's got the vitamin C built in, which matters more than anything, because without vitamin C your body can't absorb the collagen at all, it just passes straight through you. Most brands leave it out because it costs them more. Of course they do. There's hyaluronic acid in there too, for keeping your skin and joints moisturised from the inside, and a bit of biotin for your hair. Everything my oestrogen used to look after, back in one scoop. ⭐ And the proof is right there in the open. Over 20,000 women in the UK have left it five stars, and more than 50,000 of us are taking it. When I read through the reviews, there they all were. Women on HRT filling in the gaps it left, and women not on HRT supporting themselves through the whole thing naturally. Both camps, same happy endings. So I started taking it alongside my HRT. And I'll not spin you a fairytale, the first few weeks not a lot happened, they never do. But by around eight weeks the change was undeniable. 🥹 My knees stopped announcing every staircase. My skin looked like it had finally had a drink of water, brighter, softer, less tired. And after a few months, my hair, my poor thinning hair, was coming back thicker, less of it round the plughole. I caught myself doing my hair in the mirror one morning and thought, look at you, prettier than I'd felt in a long while. 💛 So here's where I've landed, after all of it. Whether you go on HRT or not, that is your decision, and yours alone. Do your reading, talk to your GP, take your time. I went on it and I'm glad, but I'd never tell another woman what to do with her own body. Heaven knows we've had enough of that. But this? The collagen? That I'd say to every single woman my age, on the hormones or not. Because it puts back the one building block the menopause takes from all of us, and it does it completely naturally. No prescription. No fear. Nothing done to you. Just the thing your body's run short of, handed back. ⚠️ Quick warning, it does sell out, so if it's in stock when you look, that's the time. I keep a spare in the cupboard now, got caught short once. And there's a 90-day money-back guarantee, three whole months to feel it for yourself, every penny back if it does nothing. So there's really no risk in giving it a go, is there. 👇 Link's below. It's the UK one, with the proper dose, the different collagens and the vitamin C all in it. That's the one that matters. Funny, isn't it. A hundred years of fuss about our hormones, and what helped me most was just putting back what I'd run short of. Nobody teaches us this, so I thought I would. Look after yourselves, ladies. x PS. I've also heard a fair few celebrities are on it, which, say what you like, usually means a thing's at least half decent. 💅