Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein
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People question, is menopause arthritis?
Do you just have arthritis because you're aging?
There are a lot of things that we can attribute to just aging.
Progression of arthritis, loss of bone density.
But some of these things accelerate in a different way at age 50-ish and older.
Women versus men.
Yes.
Or surgical menopause.
Which is, again, like takes me back to the aromatase.
Or the AI patients.
You know, it's like, yes, these people have the most exaggerated version of
Surgical menopause is the human equivalent of the studies on the oophorectomized rats.
I'm in no way comparing my...
lovely female patients to do it.
No, but we don't have a perimenopause model.
It's the parallel.
Right.
Yeah, there's not a mouse perimenopause.
Yeah, model.
They're trying, but it's so complicated.