Yes, that could have helped you. A healthy lifestyle is definitely important. I always say that the basis of preventive medicine is a good hormonal balance and good lifestyle habits. Taking hormones certainly isn't a magic solution. When we were younger, we had all our hormones, and we could still have health problems. We could feel tired. It's certain that adopting good lifestyle habits continues to be important throughout our lives.
Indeed, it's also a matter of quality. We now know that estrogens and progesterone—we aren't talking about testosterone here—play a role in all musculoskeletal structures, be they bones, muscles, joints or tendons. They play a role throughout the organism, in fact.