Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Yeah, no, no.

Maybe, but you can get safe, efficacious, high-quality, bioidentical hormone therapy from your local pharmacy with insurance, if that's your GM, for $30 a month.

No.

So testosterone in the U.S.

is not FDA approved.

And I don't know what the same board is in Canada, but you're going to have to pay out of pocket for testosterone because FDA has not gotten around to improving it for women, even though we have tons of studies to show how helpful it is.

So for my patients, we can do, I usually do an estradiol patch.

an oral macronized progesterone, and we do some topical testosterone in the form of a cream, usually from a compounding pharmacy.

So you never want to do a progesterone cream with estrogen.

Like if you do a progesterone, remember it's a huge molecule and it doesn't absorb well.

Oh, testosterone.

Yeah.

So I've got a couple of trusted pharmacies.

I work very closely with the pharmacists, but still it's not, they're not as regulated.

You know, no one's going in to test to see in a compounded pharmacy that

It's really what they're putting in there.

Were they having a bad day that day?

And they didn't, you know, silly that things coming from Walgreens and the FDA approved stuff.

They go through extensive testing and monitoring.

Yeah.