Dr. Mary Claire Haver
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Yes.
Okay.
So for those of you who are listening on our YouTube, we will have the images for you to see.
And we'll get the images and they'll be linked in the show notes as well.
Great.
Hmm, that doesn't sound so good to me.
So you had no way to study estrogen in the brain because there was no tracer available.
There was no tracer.
So tracer is something you use in radiology.
Explain what a tracer is.
You light up.
Yes.
It's like a GPS.
Or it's very similar to when we do thyroid studies.
Lots of women have had a tracer that picks up thyroid hormone and they're looking for activity for different autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Yes.
We use it for all sorts of things, for breast cancer.
There's a blood-brain barrier and it's very protective.
Okay, so walk everybody through the images.