Dr. Rachel Rubin

I'm so excited to do this, right?

Because every nursing home director has a huge problem with urinary tract infections because when little old ladies get urinary tract infections, they get delirious.

They break their hips.

It is costing our healthcare system so much money.

So we published this year, or not this year, in 2024, if we gave women in Medicare vaginal estrogen.

Just prophylaxically.

is so safe is there's literally not a paper on earth that shows harm.

If we gave women vaginal estrogen, we could save Medicare between $6 and $22 billion a year.

And I think it's a conservative estimate, which is insane, right?

And so it should be talked about.

But I always joke, and I wish this is kind of serious, right?

There's two dirty words in the English language, vagina and estrogen.

Right.

Right.

Everyone has so many feelings about the word estrogen and the word vagina can barely get talked about.

Also, your ICU doctor, the last thing they're going to talk about is vaginal estrogen.

And so we actually need a rebrand.

Like, I think we should call it like GLP-12 or something like that.

peptide, like this new GLP peptide.

It's a little insert you put, you know, you just place it vaginally, but it's your bladder microbiome support.