Dr Natalie Crawford

I was too worried about what people thought.

I was too worried about being a good girl and following the rules and checking the boxes and never stepping outside of the guidelines.

But until I realized that I wasn't really serving the population that I trained for X amount of years to that, you know, and they were being left behind.

is really what allowed me to be where I am today.

What you're recommending, and I also do the same thing for my patients.

Very hard for somebody to get care for.

This is not happening in 99% of doctor's offices.

2023, they did a study in the US, I'm not sure in other countries, and on FDA approved.

So when we add in compounding, it's maybe a little bit higher.

But when you look at FDA prescriptions, only 4% of eligible women, meaning no risk factors, right age are utilizing are going to get their prescriptions filled.

So there's risks and then there's side effects.

So when we look at the side effect profile, anytime we give a woman estrogen, progesterone, and we'll have to like look at them individually, but estrogen, you can have headaches, you can have irregular bleeding, about 50% of patients and more on the patch than on oral.

I do.

Yeah, it's right here, actually.

Twice a week.

So when we look at menopause hormone therapy, we have estrogen, we have progestogens, and then we have testosterone, basically.

And there's different ways to get it into your body.

There's oral and non-oral, roughly.

So in oral, it's a pill.

You take it.