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Jennifer Gunter

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

We see some telemedicine companies that are, you know,

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

taking insurance and they're basically, you know, doing exactly what the guidelines say and they're prescribing within the bounds.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And then we see places that seem to start that way, but now have supplements and now have compounded weight loss, GLP-1s and oral weight loss drops and medications for your adrenal gland.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And so, you know,

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

The money, as I mentioned before, if you could make a fortune prescribing menopause hormone therapy, then you wouldn't need the VC money to set up your clinic, right?

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

You'd be making it hand over fist.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

So how do you make the money hand over fist?

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

You make it by scaling up.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

You make it by offering products that are very cheap for you to make and sell.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And supplements in the

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

I set up a fake supplement just to see how much I could make.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And with a couple of emails, you know, I just had to sell over 8,000 bottles to make $200,000.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

So if you're talking about a company now that has generated this massive mailing list, right, based on their menopausal hormone therapy, based on all these types of things, and now you're getting these ads every day in your mailbox for their weighted vest or for their sleep supplement or for their adrenal booster –

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

don't tell me that's not going to lead people to buy it.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And so that's just, it's very difficult to have buyer beware.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

And I think in this age of propaganda, people also have to realize that the first piece of information that you see is the one you're most likely to believe.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

So if you use this company and they gave you what you wanted, menopause hormone therapy, and now they're telling you they have compounded estrogen face cream or they have adrenal support supplements, why wouldn't you believe them about that?

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

I actually know very little about her.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

I mean, I'm trying to like protect my mental health as much as possible from this administration.

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Jennifer Gunter & Eric Topol - Discuss Women’s Health and Recent Changes by FDA for MHT

So, I mean, you know, my understanding is that she's not board certified and that she's got all these encroachments, financial entanglements in wellness companies.