Dr Natalie Crawford

This was taught to him.

But this kind of thinking, I mean, I saw this in the ER.

I saw this in the OR.

I saw this in every clinic.

And so I've asked other clinicians around the country, and I've heard whiny-guiney.

status hispanicus, TBD, total body dolor.

Like in different regional areas, there was a name for this kind of vague complaints from this middle-aged woman, and we couldn't quite put our finger on it.

And I realized this was systemic bias built into the system where women, there's historical precedent for this, the wandering uterus, the hysteria.

These were real medical terms just until like not even a generation ago.

So you train treating both males and females.

I do.

I was locked in a room with women for 25 years, you know, and so it's so fascinating to me to hear how men and women come in with the same complaint in your clinic and your fellowship, all those years you spent training, and yet you were taught to treat them differently, you know, and the urologists say the same thing.

I think the conversation of hormones around outside of fertility and the general menstrual cycle, I can right now draw from memory exactly what's going to happen in a normal menstrual cycle.

We were taught that, you know, very, very well.

But when I saw maybe three years ago an academic paper that showed all of the locations of the G-coupled estrogen receptors in the human body, I lost my mind.

So, basically, where are the estrogen receptors in the human body?

And they're everywhere.

The brain, the bones, the muscle, the gut, you know, the –

Almost nothing, the endothelial, the lining of the individual blood vessels around our heart.

It's really radical to me to think about how all these sex hormones or the progesterone, estrogen, testosterone hormones are everywhere.