Dr. Tyna Moore

I've always been your biggest cheerleader on you guys getting hormones.

And I've also been your absolute drill sergeant that you got to go to the freaking gym.

So it's all correct to some degree, but somewhere in the middle is the truth.

And I'm not pretending to be the end all be all because like I said, I was predominantly taking care of women mostly and some men who were in that middle age transition.

And men have a lot of pain when their testosterone leaves the building, a lot of pain.

All of a sudden, all of these old joint injuries start barking at them.

I've had patients that could not run out of, I've had women that could not run out of their estrogen and men that could not run out of their testosterone because they would end up in so much crippling pain, like almost instantly, just missing a dose.

So it's real.

And I saw it plenty of times.

And then on top of it, all these new injuries would crop up.

And they would start tearing things and ripping things and things would not be healing and their gains in the gym would start diminishing and on and on it goes, right?

And so I believe that hormone replacement therapy is preventative in that if we can get it

in early enough, and we can help these men and women through the transition, because men have andropause, like women have menopause.

If we can get them through the transition as gently as possible, and I've just described some of it being a little rocky road, and I'm an expert in it, like I have been doing this a long time, and I still didn't recognize it in myself,

But it was a period of time where we were all still very isolated here in Oregon.

People were not going out yet.

It was a weird time.

I think if I'd been in a different state where people weren't acting crazy and playing pandemic to the nth degree, I think I would have probably had a friend or someone would have been like, hey, you need some hormones.

But all that to say, we are either withholding it from people or we are...

as a collective, like shaming people.