Dr. Alok Kanojia
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But like what are we going to do societally, systemically to support the men who are struggling?
So there aren't โ even though only 41 percent of people who graduate from college are men, the number of male-only scholarships is like really small.
So as a society, it's really interesting.
I think we're not really supporting men in the way that we need to.
Now, a lot of people will hear this as, oh, it is my responsibility as a woman to do things for my husband or boyfriend or whatever.
I don't think it's like women's responsibility.
I think that's a big problem historically that women have been responsible for certain aspects of men.
I think the work that I do and the work you do, the work we do is to try to help men, women, and everybody else take care of themselves.
But I do think there's plenty of data that suggests that
you know, men are falling behind.
If you look at rates of addiction, deaths of despair, this is a really interesting scientific measure that came a lot out of the UK.
These are basically deaths that relate to suicide.
You know, male suicide rates are four times what women, what they are for women.
So it's interesting, like now, hopefully this is changing, but when I was in residency, you know, we had women's mental health clinics.
We didn't have male mental health clinics.
This is fascinating.
So do you know what Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is?
Have you heard of this?
This is when people die of a broken heart?
Yeah.