Kristen Holmes

That's amazing because we also have the clinic side of our business and on the clinic side, our clinic director is a board certified OBGYN, she's a regenerative OBGYN, Dr. Sardis, she's amazing. And a lot of times we see that women that have been on birth control for a prolonged period of times, one of the things they use in birth control is, you know, SHBG, the sex hormone binding globulin.

That's amazing because we also have the clinic side of our business and on the clinic side, our clinic director is a board certified OBGYN, she's a regenerative OBGYN, Dr. Sardis, she's amazing. And a lot of times we see that women that have been on birth control for a prolonged period of times, one of the things they use in birth control is, you know, SHBG, the sex hormone binding globulin.

And it does exactly what it sounds like it does. It's a protein basically that binds to sex hormones, mainly testosterone. And so what it does is it doesn't throw the level of their hormones off, it throws the ratio of their hormones off.

And it does exactly what it sounds like it does. It's a protein basically that binds to sex hormones, mainly testosterone. And so what it does is it doesn't throw the level of their hormones off, it throws the ratio of their hormones off.

And it does exactly what it sounds like it does. It's a protein basically that binds to sex hormones, mainly testosterone. And so what it does is it doesn't throw the level of their hormones off, it throws the ratio of their hormones off.

Oh, interesting.

Oh, interesting.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah. free testosterone to testosterone, for example. And in men and women, you know, this testosterone level, even in young women, it has an impact on this erythropoietic process of the production of new red blood cells. And so we find in the vast majority of these young women that

Yeah. free testosterone to testosterone, for example. And in men and women, you know, this testosterone level, even in young women, it has an impact on this erythropoietic process of the production of new red blood cells. And so we find in the vast majority of these young women that

Yeah. free testosterone to testosterone, for example. And in men and women, you know, this testosterone level, even in young women, it has an impact on this erythropoietic process of the production of new red blood cells. And so we find in the vast majority of these young women that

that are on birth control especially if it's SHPG and I know there are other forms, IUDs and things but that use this SHPG that their testosterone levels seem to plummet and when their testosterone and free testosterone levels are so low, they're not producing a lot of red blood cells, they become borderline anemic.

that are on birth control especially if it's SHPG and I know there are other forms, IUDs and things but that use this SHPG that their testosterone levels seem to plummet and when their testosterone and free testosterone levels are so low, they're not producing a lot of red blood cells, they become borderline anemic.

that are on birth control especially if it's SHPG and I know there are other forms, IUDs and things but that use this SHPG that their testosterone levels seem to plummet and when their testosterone and free testosterone levels are so low, they're not producing a lot of red blood cells, they become borderline anemic.

But it's the kind of anemia that hides in plain sight because red blood cells have a range but they're down near the bottom of the range. hemoglobin has a range, the fluid in the red blood cell has a range, but they're down near the bottom of the range.

But it's the kind of anemia that hides in plain sight because red blood cells have a range but they're down near the bottom of the range. hemoglobin has a range, the fluid in the red blood cell has a range, but they're down near the bottom of the range.

But it's the kind of anemia that hides in plain sight because red blood cells have a range but they're down near the bottom of the range. hemoglobin has a range, the fluid in the red blood cell has a range, but they're down near the bottom of the range.

And so when you have, you're in the lowest percentile for RBCs, then you're in the lowest percentile for hemoglobin and these girls are just wiped out. They're exhausted and they never tie it back to the birth control. But when you look at a blood panel, you're like, you don't have any oxygen in your blood, you know? It's crazy.

And so when you have, you're in the lowest percentile for RBCs, then you're in the lowest percentile for hemoglobin and these girls are just wiped out. They're exhausted and they never tie it back to the birth control. But when you look at a blood panel, you're like, you don't have any oxygen in your blood, you know? It's crazy.

And so when you have, you're in the lowest percentile for RBCs, then you're in the lowest percentile for hemoglobin and these girls are just wiped out. They're exhausted and they never tie it back to the birth control. But when you look at a blood panel, you're like, you don't have any oxygen in your blood, you know? It's crazy.