Dr. Rachel Rubin

This is amazing.

While they were trying to get this drug approved.

And again, this drug works.

And it doesn't work in everybody.

No.

Is this drug serious?

No.

Is the side effects bad?

No.

It's like a tool in my toolbox that I love using and works quite well.

And so what's so crazy is while they were trying to get this approved, the 27th or whatever drug for men's sexual health gets approved by the FDA.

It is studied in 1,000 men.

It's for penile curvature.

And the side effect is penile rupture.

So your penis can explode.

And that is seen by the FDA as acceptable because if it makes your 30 degree curvature go to 20 degrees, that is a need and it gets approved right away.

Whereas the FDA didn't approve.

It took three tries to approve this drug that improves libido, decreases distress, improves more than just libido, but causes a little bit of sleepiness, which is why you take it at bedtime.

I mean, you can't make this stuff up.

And so there had to be advocacy around it, just like there was advocacy around the black box of hormones changing because the labels were on there for 20 years, not because of the science, but because no one champions this topic to the level that they should be championing it.