Dr. Robin Austin

And it's not.

And I think that there are things that

we can do to really help through that transition.

There's a really good book, and I had the honor of hearing her speak just recently this past fall as Dr. Sharon Malone.

And she wrote a really good book on menopause and kind of midlife health.

And I love her quote.

What it was is that menopause is inevitable, but suffering is not.

and so i think i really take that to heart to really say that there are things that we can do and it's just it's going in and having the conversation with a provider that you trust that will listen and that will and again it might not be just one appointment it might be a few um to really figure out what individually is going to work for you so long answer to your to your question but yes there are differences and i think that we need to do more research needs to be done around that specific um component and if i can continue on for just a second with that train of thought

And kind of going back to what Dr. Berry, you talked about is whereas informatics fit in for this.

And so for me, a couple of years ago, I was like trying to obviously going through something midlife myself.

And I was searching for information to realize that there was very little information out there and very little research.

And being a researcher within the School of Nursing, I have access to, you know, health care databases.

And I was searching and I'm thinking, what the heck?

Where is the information?

Like, this is ridiculous.

And I was complaining and kind of griping about it around my house.

And my husband finally just said, I think you can do something about that.

I was like, oh, yeah.

It just kind of didn't dawn on me, per se, that I could actually have the skill set to do something.

And so...