Andrew Huberman· PhD
just want to make sure we're crystal clear for people you're being very clear but I I want to make sure that I'm clear on it and then reiterate because this can be um uh kind of tricky territory I think there are a lot of assumptions about this stuff and there's a lot of lore out there what why do you think that is is that because of the lack of solid research and communication in this area I think so or or is it something else you know I I I think these are um tricky topics for for uh discussion often because we hear all this stuff like birth control pills disrupt one's ability to get pregnant when they come off or where it we just learn that it can delay the onset of per menopause which by extension means there's a greater window for pregnancy if one um thinks about it that way but uh why do you think it's it's so um such a tangled discussion out there I think just the way that Society views pregnancy and female health and you know at least you know I live on the internet now you know this new life has brought me life on the internet and this what the algorithms are showing me yeah it's a very friendly everyone is super everyone loves you it's a listen it's what you're doing um is so important and uh I understand the the statement behind that statement I I think um but it's so important because it people are getting the opportunity to learn about really critical public health and female health issues um in a way that just was inaccessible before yeah it is and I I it's good and bad you know there's a lot of lore and misinformation that's getting propagated and I feel like as a specialty you know as a women's health specialist we did this to ourselves you know we have not properly educated ourselves we have not spent the money the research really you know championed women after reproduction when you look at the dollars and and the research and where it goes in women's health I mean Women's Health just gets a little sliver of all the NIH funding when you look at all NIH funding and what goes to menopause it's 0.03% unb less than half a percent this is onethird of a woman's life and when you look at McKenzie and Company just just published um a report where they pulled 680 studies on like chronic diseases diabetes hypertension cardiovascular disease and they looked at how they had they were women included in the studies but how many presented the data for the different Sexes like what happened to men versus what happened to women it was only 50% of the Articles actually did Sex specific differences and how this medication affected this process or whatever and then the ones that did 30% of women had poorer outcomes and and the other and on the flip side 10% of men had poorer outcomes and these things aren't just being brought to light so the the lack of recognition of sex specific differences in chronic disease and how menopause kind of plays into all that I think is where the future needs to go so we deserve as much good health as everyone else because yes we're living longer than men but 20 to 25% of that life is in poor health wow that's a a really significant statement I mean I think think that the National Institutes of Health has been terrific in establishing new institutes