Dr. Stacy Sims

So when you're thinking about designing studies, it was...

pretty much designed on the male physiology, on the male body, and then women were an afterthought.

So there wasn't any real in-depth look of, well, women are different from birth or in utero, XX is different from XY.

So all the research has just been generalized to women, even things like aspirin for heart attacks and thinning blood.

Yeah, all of this was done on men and then just generalized to women.

And now that we're having this global conversation on women's health, people are like, well, where is the information specific for women?

And there's just a very small subset.

So we're looking and trying to expand that, but we have a lot of catching up to do.

That's crazy.

And there were still loopholes where people were finding ways to exclude women.

Right.

We're still not at 50%.

No.

No.

There's more variables at play.

Right.

It's more of a complexity to the research, but it's not more difficult.

And this is where I bring it in.

It's like if a woman had a seat at the table when all the study designs were started—

It wouldn't be a question.