So testosterone is a human hormone. That's whole body estrogen. So we have four major buckets when we're talking about hormone therapy. They stopped decades of doctors wanting to do this because how can you prescribe something that is safe, but the box from the FDA says stroke, blood clots, heart attacks, dementia. Nobody even considered estrogen and hormone therapy as part of maybe something that we should be talking about. And so that's not to say all medical problems are due to hormone issues, of course not, but how can the rheumatologist deal with inflammation and not talk about estrogen therapy? And even in that study, women who only took vaginal hormones had no cancer risk, no breast cancer risk that was published on. Hormone therapy has been around for a very long time and got a very bad reputation in the early 2000s when a big NIH study came out and said hormones cause breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. Most of it's FDA approved, maybe not for women, but it's actually FDA approved. I can't be everyone's doctor, but I want every woman to have access to what my neighbor had access to. I can't be everyone's doctor. I'm here to share the toolbox with you and to let you decide what you want to put into your body. Well, Dr. Rubin, six months into testosterone, I'm in my early 60s, they're back. I was on amitriptyline at the time and I lost my ability to have three magical orgasms. And as Dr. Rubin just said, you get one life and I really want you to be proactive about advocating for yourself and doing what you need to do to feel good in your life and in your body. Thank you for caring enough about yourself and the other women in your life for listening to this, for sharing this. You're changing medical care for women. And they go on this spiritual journey to learn everything they can about perimenopause and hormones. Well, that study was based on just one pill, one dose of hormone therapy. Everything that's a hormone product that says these products cause stroke, blood clots, heart attacks, probable dementia. And actually, because of that one press conference, the FDA at the time put a blanket label with a big box around it on all hormone products. Every news agency got on TV and said, "Throw your hormones in the garbage. These are going to kill you." The hormones we used today are even safer. So even those hormones were pretty safe. And modern day hormone therapy that really has much lower risk than the hormone therapy that was studied in that big study. And so millions and millions and millions of women who would've benefited, whose quality of life would've improved, were either denied it, not offered it, too scared to ask for it.
