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Dr Leigh Lewis

@ellelewis.bsky.social
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Menopause Specialist. Licensed BC🇨🇦AZ🇺🇸. Menopause Society certified since 2011. Practical, rational, evidence based, integrative healthcare. She/her/exhausted. #medsky #psychsky #menopause #perimenopause #hormones #sexualhealth #reproductiverights #

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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Sorry so long but I'm mad as hell Sent @nytimes this am RE Lauren Sanchez Bezos article Are you freaking kidding me??? Why are you platforming this person? She is lauded here for influencing "the uber-rich to stop apologizing and start enjoying themselves". How tone-deaf are you?
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCOTUS ruling on conversion therapy is terrible decision for patients' rights & safety We were already heading in this direction w/ profit trumping ethics, guidelines, standards of care, expertise in medicine This decision just hastened it. This was not intent of 1st amendment #medsky #psychsky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Why are you overspending for hormones in perimenopause & menopause? Share with a friend Cost effective hormones that are safe and work are available. HINT: compounded hormones and pellets are not one of them.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great post on how RFKs anti vaccine actions will impact vaccine prices. MedSky #publichealth #vaccines www.threads.com/@acedurrani/...
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Owais Durrani (@acedurrani) on Threads
👋 Doctor here 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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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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...
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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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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/06/2025
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.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
📌In the wake of this Musk-Trump nuclear-powered slap fight, I want to remind everybody that women are too emotional to lead.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The current administration is responsible for this and all the subsequent morbidity and mortality #MedSky #publichealth
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I love you Larry David Bill Maher, not so much www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Again, vaccines saving lives. #medsky #vaccines
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So much winning!
 X post by Republicans against Trump (@RpublicansTrump
), posted 18 hours ago, featuring a verification badge. The text reads, "'The golden age of America has only just begun'" in quotation marks, followed by a graph titled "S&P 500 Since the Election." The graph, sourced from LSEG Data & Analytics and credited to The New York Times, shows the S&P 500 index performance from Election Day through March 2025. The index starts at approximately 5,800 on Election Day, rises to a peak above 6,200 in early 2025, and then declines sharply to around 5,500, marking a -10.1% drop from the peak.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@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...
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Misinformation about Bioidentical and Compounded Hormones
The Dangerous Legacy of Suzanne Somers
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
MAHA stands for making kids sicker
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Same. However these same parents are now full on MAGA boomers. Would they have still given their 3 children vaccines now? #vaccines #medsky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
These things are already happening and you do not know until you need the medical care. #medsky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Am I literally the only person in the world who can’t wear white without getting some sort of shmutz on themself? #menopausesky #menopause
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is so sad in so many ways. This child didn’t have to die. What is more contagious than viruses is medical misinformation. Fact: vaccination saves lives #vaccines
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11/03/2025
We are in this together, and together we are stronger.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
No. Diet & supplements do not protect against measles Vaccination does And now the new HHS/NIH is cutting >40 grants studying vaccine hesitancy The best way to spread misinformation is to ignore facts & interfere w/ research #medsky #sciencesky #vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
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Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories (Gift Article)
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Be careful of who you choose to believe. Your life may literally depend on it.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
2 new studies re: menopausal hormone therapy & Alzheimers risk. Many say MHT prevents Alz & cog decline, this study confirms what guidelines: safe in younger women, but may be causative in older, here >70. Early menopause also confers inc risk #medsky #menopause www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/al...
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Alzheimer's Relationship With Menopause Explored
Tau buildup may be influenced by late hormone therapy or early menopause, studies suggest
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Does anyone remember Robert Smigel’s @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social cartoon, The Ex-Presidents of United States? Gist is they would come in & solve crimes & help US citizens with their “super powers”. My question is: where are the current ex-presidents? Why aren’t they helping us? #comics
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sadly, even just this news interferes w/ veteran healthcare HCPs & staff, many of whom are vets like my VAMC dept chief husband, are understandably worried about their jobs & how these cuts will kneecap their ability to provide care👇👇👇 #medsky #veterans #heathcare apnews.com/article/vete...
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Where do I get my make America goth again hat? Preferably a place that gies to a good cause? #makeamericagothagain
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Shocking how many people love to speak w/such authority on things they know nothing about. More & more thing they know nothing & yet feel free to spread lies about is medicine. I was going to comment that he hasn’t even played a doctor before, but, alas… 👇👇👇 MedSky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is embarrassing. I am ashamed at our country and its “leaders”.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yep. Vaccines to the rescue again. For the vaccinated. Remember you can still get the Gardasil HPV vaccine up to age 45. It also protects against heads and neck and anal cancer too. MedSky ScienceSky #vaccines #cancer www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence
From 2008 to 2022, rates for precancerous lesions decreased about 80 percent among 20- to 24-year-old women who were screened for cervical cancer.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another day, another call to @repdavid : Those of us with underlying conditions like #autoimmune & #immunodeficiency deserve the right to get updated flu & covid vaccines in the fall. Period. Politics have no place in medicine. MedSky #vaccination
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We w/underlying conditions have most to lose from this. Every new flu/Covid infxn inc my chance of further lung damage. If you’ll be impacted by not receiving updated flu/covid vax in fall call congressperson & say politics has no place in medicine #chronicillness #longcovid #autoimmune MedSky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
These people are not just idiots, their reckless behavior is kneecapping medical research in ways that will negatively impact the health and safety of all Americans for years to come. MedSky ScienceSky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Just 📞 R-Schweikert as constituent of AZ-1 congressional dist Vote no on doge legislative agenda Stand up for #arizona #veterans & VAMC workers who care for them Stand up for Medicaid by vote no to lower taxes for wealthy Stand up for scientific research funding Stand up for vaccines MedSky
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is NOT fake news. What is fake news is the idea that vaccines are unnecessary. This is the 1st measles death in over a decade. If for some reason you are uncertain if you had the MMR vaccine you can get titers from your PCP MedSky #vaccines #publishealth www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say (Gift Article)
At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The math ain’t mathin’
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Did you know 1/5 Americans are on #Medicaid and the program pays for ~50% of US births. Republican house members & the president want to make crippling cuts to this benefit. This will negatively impact people you know & love. #medsky #healthcare
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is very important. Collecting a patients pregnancy and child birth history as part of a #menopause consult is critical for assessing risk of chronic disease
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Dr Leigh Lewis @ellelewis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“meno wars” don’t seem to have infiltrated BlueSky like IG Have u seen menopause misinfo inc diets/detoxes/supplements/hormone use lacking research here? Who do you follow for reliable info on perimenopause? Me? @drjengunter.bsky.social MenopauseSky MedSky www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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As menopause wars rage, social media skirmishes erupt over new approaches to hormone therapy – and Sydney is about to be a flashpoint
The So Hot Right Now conference will put the spotlight on dosages advocated by three headline speakers whose claims are disputed by other experts
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