Dr. Jen Gunter

So it depends on the mechanism.

And so right now, the best that we have is the data would suggest that the highest risk group may be, and this is a may, people who have more hot flashes.

Well, those are the very people we should be treating, right?

Like we don't want people to suffer.

So while the data is being sorted out and there's more studies ongoing, we should treat the people who are suffering because look, good sleep is good for your brain.

Not being uncomfortable is good for your quality of life.

And we don't have any significant evidence that that's gonna cause harm, right, for those people.

So that's a lot of, that's a different message than me finger pointing saying, every woman, we know this prevents neurodementia, right?

A completely different message.

And, you know, patients appreciate that in the office when you, you know, go into it and discuss it.

But it's very easy for people to see these clips from a movie or something that's played over and over and to say, well, I'm super scared.

I need to go on it.

And so while, and I know it's hard, look, as again, as somebody who had, you know,

Well, I don't know people's individual motivations.

I would say that I feel it's unethical to be definitive about things that we can't be definitive, where there's really, this isn't like an 80-20.

This isn't, you know, it's, I don't feel that that's ethical.

Would I want my kids to be told, to get a message that something was definitive?

And then they have to come in and hear from me.

Now I have to play the bad cop?

So that's what that does.