Jennifer Gunter

I mean,

you know, you can't make new eggs.

We're all born with what we have.

And so all, you know, what we can do is we can slow the eggs that we maybe, the idea is that maybe we can slow the number that are pulled out of the pool.

But we don't know what the long-term, you know, we don't know if that has any long-term implications or not.

So I just think we need to be like really careful about jumping to conclusions or what I like to call, you know, wishful hypotheses.

Yeah, I mean, but also, you know, we know, for example, that people who exercise robustly have better survival for cancer.

So when we start to look at the health disparities with, you know, people being able to get access to health care and get screening, and when you're starting to study the immune system of people and not, you know, a non-randomized sample of

of people who are taking menopausal hormone therapy, you're taking an incredibly biased part of the population.

So I just think that we have to be really careful without true randomized data, especially looking at the health disparities in this country, about jumping to any kind of conclusions.

Yeah.

I mean, I would say that, you know, when I say I haven't changed, I mean, if you're coming in and you have symptoms, I'm going to get, you know, and you're at low risk.

So, you know, you're not somebody who, for example, you know, just finished treatment for breast cancer six months ago.

And so, you know, talking about people who we would consider to be a good candidate for

for menopausal hormone therapy, if you've got hot flashes, you know, I was giving it to you before the WHI and I was giving it to you afterwards because, you know, I, I kept up to date with the data, you know, the, the menopause society came out with, you know, with statements pretty soon afterwards.

I, I thought about, okay, well, who are the people I trust in this space?

What have they written about it?

And so, you know, I think that

The problem is, especially in the United States, it's such a weird litigious environment.

So this is just, this is an anecdote not related to menopause hormone therapy, but I think it really goes to show the difference.