Dr. Rachel Rubin

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3,407 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2025 last heard 22 Jun

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Not necessarily.

So again, we give birth control all the time to people in their reproductive years.

Birth control is just high-dose fake hormone therapy.

So we're giving women hormone therapy as young as in their teens to help with different things in birth control.

So if you think of it as all of it is some form of hormone therapy, it just depends.

Are we using the natural form of hormone therapy?

Are we using the synthetic hormone therapy?

We have to get comfortable with hormones at all ages.

And the thing that we see most commonly, Stephen, is sort of what we call NFLM, not feeling like myself.

I love that statement because women are coming to the doctor every day saying NFLM, I'm not feeling like myself, and they're getting dismissed.

And the truth is there are often hormonal reasons why you may not be feeling like yourself.

So for some people, it might be musculoskeletal pain.

So we see plantar fasciitis and frozen shoulder.

And we think of as those having underlying hormonal causes as well.

So there's published data that less than 9% of Medicare patients are getting prescriptions for this.

More than 75% of people in large database collections are not getting prescriptions for this.

And so women are not getting access to generic medications that could save their lives and also really improve quality of life.

I don't know about you, but dryness, people are not having sex anymore because of the pain, the dryness, the irritation when it's fixable.

Yeah, pain with sex is actually not rare at all.

There are some published reports that up to 75% of women will say at some point in their life sex is painful.

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