Dr Natalie Crawford

Okay.

If I type in the word perimenopause, we are about at 8,000.

Yep.

Very, very, very, very small.

Your name's on a couple of them.

Thanks.

So is the last third of my life, from an academic standpoint, from funding, from brain power, from where we focus, not as important than when I had the ability to be pregnant?

More women will go through perimenopause than menopause because we're going to lose a few to accidents and cancers and, you know, early deaths.

More women will go through perimenopause than get pregnant.

Yet in my training, so in medical school, I got one hour, one one-hour lecture on menopause, nothing on peri.

And in my OBGYN training, and I'd love to hear what you have to say, as part of our reproductive endocrinology blocks, I had one block of that my second year.

In those six weeks, I got one one-hour lecture each week.

No clinics, no focus, nothing.

And then as a program director where I was in charge of the education of residents, of over 100 residents over about 10 years, I know exactly what the curriculum required.

And menopause just gets shoved into a tiny box.

If they even decide to treat or offer treatment or even begin the discussion because of our training, you must—thou shalt go without one year.

So we're absolutely sure that the ovaries have moved on before we would even consider—

But what is the point of that?

We've made estrogen our entire lives.

It's a fabulous question.