Em Rusciano

No one warns you.

No one in high school health...

all of women's health is centered around our reproductive health, our ability to have babies.

And I did a podcast called Rage Against the Vagina.

I had 25 experts in there and some of them who are top of their field did one afternoon on perimenopause, menopause training in their entire six-year degree.

The rest of it was around babies.

Yeah.

because that's all we're useful for still.

Yeah, I know.

But the perimenopause thing is debilitating, real and the most brutal thing I've ever gone through and I felt so alone and the magnitude of symptoms like dry eyes.

I thought I was going blind and I went to see my optometrist and she said, you have clinically dry eyes and because testosterone actually is part of the oil production in the glands in your eyes.

Right.

Because women also need testosterone, Steph, and that drops.

Mine went down to you couldn't measure it in the tests.

And the blood test that they'll say to you, oh, they're not reliable because hormones go up and down.

Yes.

So that's why you have them regularly.

And you work with an endocrinologist.

I had to because of how young I was.

But the lack of information out there is breathtaking.