Dr Natalie Crawford

We're not.

But completely dismissing the female experience and not at all, like, including this cataclysmic hormonal change is hurting women.

So like she said, the average age of menopause, if we look at the math, is 51.

But under that 90th percentile curve, you know, with 5% on each end, it's about 45 to 55.

That's menopause, right?

That's full menopause.

Now, let's just do math and back it up 7 to 10 years.

So we're looking at the mid to late 30s to 40.

So when I have a 46, 47, 48-year-old patient come in who's still cycling...

She has almost 100% chance of being in perimenopause just based on her age alone, knowing the statistics around that.

Well, we don't have a single large-scale study done.

on the treatment of perimenopause.

So let me break it down for you.

When we look at funding in women's health, it's horrible.

But if I go into PubMed, which is the database that I go to look up medical journal articles, and I type in the word pregnancy, I will get today 1.2-ish million articles for pregnancy.

Amazing.

So important.

We need healthy pregnancies.

If I type in the word menopause right now, I think it's about 99,000.

So those numbers represent time, brain power, funding, what is important in women's health.