Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

Tomorrow, March 8th, is International Women's Day.

And this is celebrated globally.

This year, the theme is Accelerate Action.

And this campaign demands urgent and decisive steps to speed up gender equality

and address the very sluggish pace

of progress. We are ready to empower women and girls everywhere. Today, let's dive into a very

pressing topic, the gender gap in health care. And let's unpack what's at stake and why it's

time to act for our women. I think it's critical global economic impact. If unresolved, the gender health gap is projected to cost the economy over $1 trillion by 2040. In terms of menopause and productivity, in Canada, for example, menopausal symptoms lead to the loss of over 540,000 workdays

annually, costing the economy more than $3.5 billion each year due to loss of productivity and

income. And you know that we need to address this problem because if you're not motivated by the necessity for

women's health, women's mental status, women's goodness and wellness overall, at least economically

speaking, financially speaking, and on the business front, we need to look at the fact that

lost days at work due to issues where women's health has not stepped up is tremendously

important to the global economy. I want to emphasize a call to action. We have to address this

gender gap in health care. Advocacy and awareness are the biggest ways that we're going to do this.

And it means even in our industry, in aesthetics, to address inadequacies where

women's health and women's issues are not being adequately addressed or researched. We think

that skin is skin in our aesthetic industry. And I tell you, it's not. Women's skin is different

from men's skin. Women's skin has hormone receptors for estrogens, progesterone, even testosterone, and things that

literally have not been researched.

Men age so differently than how women age.

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