Unless you’ve been in an isolation chamber for the past few years, the words vaginal estrogen likely conjure an image of a 50-something woman fanning herself while having a hot flash. It’s true that vaginal estrogen is mainly used to help women of a certain age—think the perimenopausal and menopausal 40s and 50s—get more lubed down there. But that isn’t the only purpose of this local hormone treatment.
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