Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

And this isn't my own research, just things that I...

you know, read that makes sense.

There's a study out of, and again, a lot of this relates to animal data, which is where we learn so many of these things and maybe hopefully eventually apply to humans and learn more.

There was a study done on UCSF on mice looking at

Basically, cells located like centrally in the spinal cord and showing that estrogen and progesterone stimulate these cells to create like an endogenous analgesic, basically.

Okay.

Pain reliever.

There are some studies on people with fibromyalgia showing relationships between progesterone levels and pain.

What is fibromyalgia?

That's a tough thing because the actual definition of fibromyalgia relates to these very specific number of painful points on myofascial tissue.

I think we'll learn more about fibromyalgia over time because I half wonder.

We see it a lot in a lot of menopausal women get diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

You have pain in myofascial tissue.

Yeah, it could be.

I mean, we see, I do see many more women with fibromyalgia than men.

I didn't know any men had it.

Yeah, I think, I don't know if I have any.

Yeah, it's definitely more common in women.

And it may be something I think we understand more over time.

Again, these things get named something and, you know, do we figure out what they are?