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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
No, they didn't ask.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So I think that when we have, you know, Instagram and TikTok and...
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
All this content going out to people and, you know, influencers with massive followings saying that menopause hormone therapy has been proven to reduce dementia, which is not true, that we're going to see, you know, a surge in people using it.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
And we just, you know, I don't think that's going to be based on the black box warning.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
It's just those things have happened at the same time.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
Yeah, I mean, I think that the problem is we don't have perhaps the best way to screen people.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So, for example, the current recommendations from the U.S.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
Preventative Services Task Force, which, you know, they're always very conservative, right, because they're all methodologists.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
Right.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So, you know, right?
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
I mean, so, and you know, and I appreciate that.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
I think it's really important that we have like a super conservative one side so we can say, okay, we need to, let's look at that, but we should, you know, so we can look at everything in total, right?
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So the U.S.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
Preventative Services Task Force doesn't recommend starting screening for osteoporosis until age 65, you know, unless there's risk factors.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
And I think what happens is,
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
Well, I think, you know, the thing is, is that first of all, there are many people that we catch just by asking them about risk factors.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So whether you even, you know, so we can do a FRAC score in the office, we can look at somebody's weight.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
There are so many ways.
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
So there's, what I would say is there's all this low hanging fruit that, you know, if I see somebody who's 52 and thin and,
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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Womenâs Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT
And they told me they had an eating disorder between the ages of 20 and 30.