Dr. Vonda Wright

But we are the majority product.

We have to have this conversation because data show that of the $450 billion spent on research in this country alone, less than 1% is spent on women over 40.

And yet we are nearly 90 million people.

And we make 80% of all the healthcare decisions in this country for ourselves and everyone we touch.

And so even though when you look at

The long-term data, women are winning the longevity race here.

We're living an average of six years longer than men.

But as all of us talk about all the time, women suffer longer.

And that's primarily not only because of what you said, but the shocking statistic is that not until 1993 were women required to be represented in studies.

1993?

I mean, we were all far into our lives and research by then.

Isn't that shocking?

But this happens not only at the organ level.

It makes sense that if we have a population with XX chromosomes, a population with XY, genetically and the way we express those genes are differently.

But I think we miss the fact that down to a cellular level, every cell from an XX expresses these tissue changes, tissue manifestations differently than an XY.

Our lab used to study...

We called them muscle-derived stem cells 20 years ago.

Now they're called satellite cells.

But when we harvested them and asked them to behave in different environments...

Satellite cells from XX people and XX animals, women, females, were better under the same circumstances experimentally at making cartilage and muscle.