Shalin Shah

Like most diseases, actually I talked about this, like most diseases,

You don't think about why I necessarily have this.

You treat the disease, right?

If you have high blood pressure, sure, you should make lifestyle adjustments, but you take blood pressure medication.

You have high cholesterol, again, lifestyle is important, but you take cholesterol medication.

You have low testosterone, sure, lifestyle should be important, but take the testosterone medication.

because that is gonna fix a lot of underlying things.

So again, why is this disease state treated differently doesn't make any sense.

So the panel advocated for

changes as it relates to that label.

So again, men don't feel like they are using a treatment that they shouldn't be, right?

This is for them.

And the third one, which is really big, which adds to this whole stigma equation or should subtract from it, is testosterone should be descheduled.

It is controlled three substance right now.

And again, this goes back to Congress in 1990 on the back of the Olympics.

It makes no sense.

Testosterone, and I said it in the panel, is less abused than caffeine, but more tightly restricted than cannabis in half of this country.

Exactly.

So this has been about a 10-year passion project so far.

And again, you know, I think we're just getting started in the scheme of things and the change that we can bring about.