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If someone's menstrual cycle is irregular, should they be concerned? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Your body's meant to work
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like clockwork. And our monthly cycle is so much more than getting ready to have
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a baby, especially when we're looking at exercise. And it's important to say if you don't have a period, it's very
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harmful to long-term health, brain health, mental health, low energy, mood, and libido. And I don't want the younger
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generations to have to go through the stuff that we've gone through. So, it's an important discussion that we
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need to have. So, we asked a thousand women to submit their questions ahead of this conversation and I got so many
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questions around fertility, understanding hormones, PCOS, birth control pill, miscarriage.
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And I'll say this, Stephen, it's because we haven't had these discussions publicly. When we look at funding in
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women's health is horrible. Like less than 1% is spent on women over 40. Women are living 20% more of our lives
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with chronic disease or mental health disorders. I mean, 50% of patients with unexplained
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infertility have indometriosis. But yet, it takes women 7 to 10 years to get a diagnosis after symptoms start. But
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also, there are things that we do that will inherently harm our fertility because we're not taught this. And it
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predisposes you to many medical problems later in life. And patients will say, "But I have a
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really high pain tolerance like it's a badge." So, they gaslight themselves and that's
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what we're all trying to fight here. But there are a lot of things we can do to deal with this.
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And then I want to talk about menopause. So, in medical school, menopause just gets shoved into a tiny box. This is a
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scary statistic. So, oh my god, it's crazy. This is why we need to create change.