Dr. Mary Claire Haver

You know, like if we don't look for it, it's not there.

Yes.

Right?

And so you go and decide, I want to study estrogen in the brain, but there is a problem.

I still get pushback in 2026.

No, no, no, no, no.

So for our listeners, we're talking about the Krebs cycle, if everyone remembers from biology in high school.

And you basically start with glucose and we break it down through several steps until we get energy or ATP at the end.

So what she's saying is, I'm trying to take it down for the lay people, is we are disrupting that pathway.

Yes.

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