Dr. Jen Gunter
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And the placebo group, it was 63%.
Okay, that was statistically significant.
So does it mean it's wrong to try?
No.
I'm like, yeah, maybe you're going to be, we don't really know.
Maybe it's going to help.
How much of that is related to sleeping better?
We don't really know.
And symptoms are a bit of a soft call.
You know, it's not like with a statin or whatever we say, okay, well, you're at this level.
You should be on, right?
So it's quality of life.
And people have to decide how well they feel on a treatment.
And if taking this medication, you're sleeping better, you feel better, great.
The concern is for me is when people are making sort of false claims.
So we hear about, well, it's great for brain fog.
Well, we have at least, you know, four clinical trials that looked at cognition, but this is for people immediately after menopause that show no improvement.
We don't have data for people in perimenopause.
So if we don't have data, you shouldn't be definitive and say that it's great.
The studies don't exist.