While limited in scope, a 2022 meta-analysis of patient outcomes reveals that compounded hormones provide real benefits to patients -- and also found that compounded hormones pose no increased risk compared to FDA-approved products.
As part of its commission, NASEM was to review the body of patient-outcome studies for compounded hormones. NASEM chose to ignore that data, instead selecting only 13 studies to include in its report, mostly featuring hormones that are not among the most commonly prescribed. (Studies that matched their predetermined outcome?)
This report, published in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society, is exactly the kind of unbiased research that NASEM should have done but didn't.