Petra Bagust

Progesterone.

Both.

Both.

That those mucus-filled, blood-engorged, moist areas become potentially drier.

Thinner.

More fragile.

Okay.

Okay.

So in terms of vaginal atrophy being one of the potential impacts or effects of going through menopause or going into menopause, what is the proportion of women?

Do you know how many women experience those symptoms specifically?

What proportion of the population are we talking about?

Or do we not know?

And the New Zealand data that we have, has it at about 50?

Okay.

So what we're talking about here is from a little bit dry to Sahara Desert, we've got a range of women experiencing the skin of their vagina vulva, urethra, bladder.

So that whole system that looks after women

you know wastewater and reproductive health and sexual pleasure there are changes going on that can have really significant impacts on comfort lifestyle how you feel as a person yep

is that true yes like in rest times it's kind of one of the things falls UTIs pneumonia pneumonia they're all kind of linked okay oh yeah no that makes sense my father's been very very unwell with the UTI yes yeah can overwhelm the immune system

So I want to go in a couple of directions.

I'm not of the mentality that perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause, acknowledging that menopause is one day, an arbitrary day, a year after your last menstruation.