* Until recently, taking hormones for perimenopausal and menopausal discomforts was called hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This term made it sound as though menopausal women are missing something—that we are somehow deficient without the hormones we had in youth. Yet most hormone therapy prescribed today does not provide the same levels of hormones that our ovaries were making during our menstruating years. The term “hormone therapy” (HT) avoids the implication that all women should be replacing something essential that is now missing.