Dr Leigh Lewis
@ellelewis.bsky.social
Menopause Specialist. Practical, rational, non-gimmicky, evidence based, integrative healthcare for women >40. Guerita. She/her/exhausted. Succeeding downwards
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#medsky #psychsky #menopause #perimenopause #hormones #sexualhealth #reproductiverights #
Great post on how RFKs anti vaccine actions will impact vaccine prices.
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RFK Jr. removed all members of CDC vaccine advisory committee and the fear is they will be replaced with those that don't "recommended" already proven vaccines, which means insurance wo...
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June 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great post on how RFKs anti vaccine actions will impact vaccine prices.
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Fascinating look at “Dutch protocol” established in 90’s in Netherlands on treatment of transgender adolescents, how was implemented here US, and how progressed to where we are now politically & medically (both totally fucked up)
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The Protocol
Society & Culture Podcast · Series · A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fi...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fascinating look at “Dutch protocol” established in 90’s in Netherlands on treatment of transgender adolescents, how was implemented here US, and how progressed to where we are now politically & medically (both totally fucked up)
#MedSky
#Transmed
#Psychsky
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#MedSky
#Transmed
#Psychsky
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Did you know that the BBB offers an offset to the destruction of Medicaid: they have kindly increased the annual contributions to HSA/FSA accounts to $17k 🙄
Like offering a bandaid after open heart surgery
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Like offering a bandaid after open heart surgery
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#medicaid
#publichealth
Medicare is a target as Senate GOP faces megabill math issues.
Medicare is a target as Senate GOP faces megabill math issues
Republicans have so far kept hands off the politically sensitive program. But senators are now desperate to find additional spending cuts.
www.politico.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Did you know that the BBB offers an offset to the destruction of Medicaid: they have kindly increased the annual contributions to HSA/FSA accounts to $17k 🙄
Like offering a bandaid after open heart surgery
#medsky
#medicaid
#publichealth
Like offering a bandaid after open heart surgery
#medsky
#medicaid
#publichealth
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
Look beyond Trump and Musk's public blowout to the bigger problem: the infiltration of Big Money in our politics. It has corrupted our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top while drowning out the needs of regular Americans.
June 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Look beyond Trump and Musk's public blowout to the bigger problem: the infiltration of Big Money in our politics. It has corrupted our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top while drowning out the needs of regular Americans.
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
The really critical thing to know about the Trump/Musk throw down is that the “Big Beautiful Bill” would explode the debt, exacerbate economic inequality, and cause cruel and grievous harm to the most vulnerable Americans and we really should be talking about that a whole lot more.
June 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The really critical thing to know about the Trump/Musk throw down is that the “Big Beautiful Bill” would explode the debt, exacerbate economic inequality, and cause cruel and grievous harm to the most vulnerable Americans and we really should be talking about that a whole lot more.
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
📌In the wake of this Musk-Trump nuclear-powered slap fight, I want to remind everybody that women are too emotional to lead.
June 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
📌In the wake of this Musk-Trump nuclear-powered slap fight, I want to remind everybody that women are too emotional to lead.
Serious question here:
As doctors, if we prescribe GLP1s for weight loss to people of normal weight and metabolic health, are we aiding and abetting disordered eating behavior and, if so, is this practice ethical?
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#mentalheath
#Disorderedeating
#anorexia
As doctors, if we prescribe GLP1s for weight loss to people of normal weight and metabolic health, are we aiding and abetting disordered eating behavior and, if so, is this practice ethical?
#MedSky
#medicine
#PsychSky
#mentalheath
#Disorderedeating
#anorexia
May 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Serious question here:
As doctors, if we prescribe GLP1s for weight loss to people of normal weight and metabolic health, are we aiding and abetting disordered eating behavior and, if so, is this practice ethical?
#MedSky
#medicine
#PsychSky
#mentalheath
#Disorderedeating
#anorexia
As doctors, if we prescribe GLP1s for weight loss to people of normal weight and metabolic health, are we aiding and abetting disordered eating behavior and, if so, is this practice ethical?
#MedSky
#medicine
#PsychSky
#mentalheath
#Disorderedeating
#anorexia
1/2 I see women in often who’ve received inappropriate RXs for menopause hormones far exceeding expert recs
Now I’ve seen most egregious example in 22y of menopause practice:
Her Total Testosterone 1907
ref range <82 women
ref range ‹1000 men
ref range ‹1000 transmasc
MenopauseSky
MedSky
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Now I’ve seen most egregious example in 22y of menopause practice:
Her Total Testosterone 1907
ref range <82 women
ref range ‹1000 men
ref range ‹1000 transmasc
MenopauseSky
MedSky
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May 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1/2 I see women in often who’ve received inappropriate RXs for menopause hormones far exceeding expert recs
Now I’ve seen most egregious example in 22y of menopause practice:
Her Total Testosterone 1907
ref range <82 women
ref range ‹1000 men
ref range ‹1000 transmasc
MenopauseSky
MedSky
👇🏻
Now I’ve seen most egregious example in 22y of menopause practice:
Her Total Testosterone 1907
ref range <82 women
ref range ‹1000 men
ref range ‹1000 transmasc
MenopauseSky
MedSky
👇🏻
I get emails selling hormone pellets for perimenopause, this time from Qualgen
My question is: it costs provider $8-12 per pellet, why do they turn around & charge patient $300-$600 everv 3 months?
I never get emails for FDA-approved hormones & I make no money
prescribing them
MenopauseSky
MedSky
My question is: it costs provider $8-12 per pellet, why do they turn around & charge patient $300-$600 everv 3 months?
I never get emails for FDA-approved hormones & I make no money
prescribing them
MenopauseSky
MedSky
May 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I get emails selling hormone pellets for perimenopause, this time from Qualgen
My question is: it costs provider $8-12 per pellet, why do they turn around & charge patient $300-$600 everv 3 months?
I never get emails for FDA-approved hormones & I make no money
prescribing them
MenopauseSky
MedSky
My question is: it costs provider $8-12 per pellet, why do they turn around & charge patient $300-$600 everv 3 months?
I never get emails for FDA-approved hormones & I make no money
prescribing them
MenopauseSky
MedSky
Fellow #healthcare providers 📣:
How many of you are spending wayyyyy more time with patients lending a sympathetic ear re: the state of the world, particularly our country & impact of present administration 🙋🏼♀️
People are really struggling.
#medsky
#medicine
#publichealth
How many of you are spending wayyyyy more time with patients lending a sympathetic ear re: the state of the world, particularly our country & impact of present administration 🙋🏼♀️
People are really struggling.
#medsky
#medicine
#publichealth
April 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Fellow #healthcare providers 📣:
How many of you are spending wayyyyy more time with patients lending a sympathetic ear re: the state of the world, particularly our country & impact of present administration 🙋🏼♀️
People are really struggling.
#medsky
#medicine
#publichealth
How many of you are spending wayyyyy more time with patients lending a sympathetic ear re: the state of the world, particularly our country & impact of present administration 🙋🏼♀️
People are really struggling.
#medsky
#medicine
#publichealth
The current administration is responsible for this and all the subsequent morbidity and mortality
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Our latest poll gauges whether the public has heard, and whether they believe, three false statements related to measles circulating amid the outbreak.
At least half of people express some uncertainty about whether to believe each claim.
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At least half of people express some uncertainty about whether to believe each claim.
Learn more: on.kff.org/3YeXLNf
April 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The current administration is responsible for this and all the subsequent morbidity and mortality
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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
He wants to give a baby bonus of $5k when “a middle-income family of four is expected to pay $233,610 per child from birth to age 18. This number jumps to $310,605 when calculated using an adjusted inflation rate for 2022”
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April 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
He wants to give a baby bonus of $5k when “a middle-income family of four is expected to pay $233,610 per child from birth to age 18. This number jumps to $310,605 when calculated using an adjusted inflation rate for 2022”
ifstudies.org/blog/the-tru...
ifstudies.org/blog/the-tru...
1/2 Pt today wanted me to refill her compounded tirzepatide (prescribed by another Dr.) I told her they aren’t supposed to do that after FDA ruling. She wanted me to call pharmacy so I did. Pharmacist said she can still get it but I would need to choose glycine or niacinamide to the tirzepatide
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/2 Pt today wanted me to refill her compounded tirzepatide (prescribed by another Dr.) I told her they aren’t supposed to do that after FDA ruling. She wanted me to call pharmacy so I did. Pharmacist said she can still get it but I would need to choose glycine or niacinamide to the tirzepatide
The Signal debacle is what happens when you hire people for high level positions who look the part, but don’t have the experience, who talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk. We have & will continue to see this play out in our healthcare system to the detriment of people’s lives
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March 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Signal debacle is what happens when you hire people for high level positions who look the part, but don’t have the experience, who talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk. We have & will continue to see this play out in our healthcare system to the detriment of people’s lives
#medsky
#sciencesky
#medsky
#sciencesky
Another great read from @drjengunter.bsky.social reviewing the continued disinformation spewed by Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow this time re: her defense of raw milk consumption #medsky #publichealth #nutrition
open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Dairy Delusion
Milking conspiracy theories and JAQing off is even more harmful when it comes from celebrities
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March 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Another great read from @drjengunter.bsky.social reviewing the continued disinformation spewed by Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow this time re: her defense of raw milk consumption #medsky #publichealth #nutrition
open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Reposted by Dr Leigh Lewis
@drjengunter.bsky.social ‘s terrific new article on substack re: facts about “bioidentical” hormones & why you should save $$ & skip compounded hormones in favor of FDA approved options for menopausal hormones. This includes hormone pellets
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Misinformation about Bioidentical and Compounded Hormones
The Dangerous Legacy of Suzanne Somers
vajenda.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@drjengunter.bsky.social ‘s terrific new article on substack re: facts about “bioidentical” hormones & why you should save $$ & skip compounded hormones in favor of FDA approved options for menopausal hormones. This includes hormone pellets
#medsky
#menopause
vajenda.substack.com/p/misinforma...
#medsky
#menopause
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This might seem like it impacts only the students at o e program at one school. But make no mistake, this should be horrifying to anyone in medicine/science.
This is only the beginning.
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This is only the beginning.
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#sciencesky
This is my institution. These are the people I work with making these decisions. The situation is heartbreaking. Public medical schools have no other choice; there is no other source of funding, and everyone in academia is at extreme risk right now.
March 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This might seem like it impacts only the students at o e program at one school. But make no mistake, this should be horrifying to anyone in medicine/science.
This is only the beginning.
#medsky
#sciencesky
This is only the beginning.
#medsky
#sciencesky
MAHA stands for making kids sicker
Remember when RFK Jr was going to make all the food healthier and organic? Well score one for the big corporations over local farms! www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
MAHA stands for making kids sicker
PAXLOVID alert.
Went to a pharmacy to pick up a Paxlovid Rx for (for real) a friend. Out-of-pocket cost for one course of treatment was almost $800, discounted from Pfizer's charge of $1500.
Medicare subsidy for Paxlovid expired 2 weeks ago, & no one has given thought to how to make it accessible.
Went to a pharmacy to pick up a Paxlovid Rx for (for real) a friend. Out-of-pocket cost for one course of treatment was almost $800, discounted from Pfizer's charge of $1500.
Medicare subsidy for Paxlovid expired 2 weeks ago, & no one has given thought to how to make it accessible.
March 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM