Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, and these risks increase with age.

“So I think there are significant risks to that person and from the mental health perspective I think there's no question that we see worsening of me. Now, I will say perry menopause from what I understand of the data is actually worse on mental health and can actually level out a little bit once there's less erratic hormones. But again, an empty gas tank is still an empty gas tank. And so, we see a lot of challenges, you know, sort of in this time period. We talked about obviously the risk of dementia, we talked about the risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, um colon cancer, right? All of these are risks that are pretty clearly going up in the absence of hormones.”