Dr Susan Hardwick-Smith

Everybody's skin's different, like where it's placed at the time of the day, the temperature, whether you exercise, if you've exfoliated your particular type of skin.

So we can use the same dose, just like you said.

And we start with a reasonable dose, like say five milligrams, for example.

and then measure it, and I'll get quite different results from different patients.

Now, no harm will happen in that couple of months of, I tell patients, this is a trial for you because you're an individual.

It's an experiment with one person in it, but it's a safe experiment because

Hundreds of thousands of other women have tried before you, and this is a very safe dose.

It might be too low, and we may have to increase it.

By no means is it going to be too high, so there's no harm.

But I think this idea that it's precision medicine, I mean, if we're putting a gel, especially if we're using something like in this country, the male gel and being asked to divide this into a ton, and what possible planet is that precision medicine?

That is like guesswork.

That's the best.

But I mean, this is what we have.

So, I mean, no, nothing wrong with doing that, but we have to understand it's a guess and we don't know how much you're going to absorb, but it's not harmful to try.

Now, men use gel and they have exactly the same issues.

They don't know how much they're going to absorb.

The doctor measures it later.

There's really no difference.

So I get annoyed, to say the least, with the fact that men have all these different options and they are offered these options and counseled by their provider and they get to choose the one that's best for them and everybody's happy about that.

For some reason, it's different for women.