Dr Susan Hardwick-Smith

And, you know, if we're waiting...

20, 30 years for a randomized controlled trial that no one's going to pay for.

In the meantime, everyone's going to suffer.

So yeah, the idea that it's not safe to take a natural hormone that we've had all of our lives makes absolutely no sense.

We have to move away from that.

It's mind boggling how that statement could arise, but I can perhaps sort of see an inkling of where that might've come from because there were in the past and still exist, certainly in this country, clinics where patients are given unsafe drugs that are either not biologically identical testosterone or doses that are way too high for a female.

And so I think because that happens, we could throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Just because, in my opinion, irresponsible practitioners might offer this doesn't mean that there are responsible practitioners offering it.

So patients have to be really careful and smart about whom they give.

trust with their healthcare, just like in any field.

Oh, so true.

So if you're putting something on the skin, one of the interesting things that I honestly did not know until probably a few years ago is that the drug companies that make this stuff, let's just say, for example, a standard starting dose for testosterone would be five milligrams a day.

In Australia, that's five or a ton, right?

So let's just say five to be conservative.

The understanding is that we're only going to absorb...

10% of that.

So there's a guess that 90% of it will be lost.

Well, that's a pretty wild guess.

Is it 95% or 82%?

Like we have no idea.