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When you talk about vaginal estrogen, and we've touched on this before, but it is worth mentioning again, you are not talking about systemic estrogen that treats the whole body,

true or false?

Yeah, correct.

By and large, when we talk about hormones, we talk about two different levels of hormones.

So there's systemic, which means that you put it in your body, whether you inject it or have a patch

or swallow it or put a cream on your arm.

That's a dose.

And people like do not understand. It's the amount of hormone in the product. And then there's vaginal

estrogen, also called pelvic estrogen, low dose estrogen, just a very, very low dose. It's basically

to the level of skin care. You're just treating the vulva, the erythra. The bladder gets some estrogen because it

shares the wall with the vagina. I say their condo mate. They share a wall. And so vandal estrogen is safe

for everybody. You can start it when you're 92. The warning label on it is wrong. We're petitioning the

FDA to remove that. If you care to be involved, go to let's talk menopause.org to petition the FDA to say we want

accuracy in our medical government labeling. And this product should not say it causes cancer

or strokes or blood clots because it does not. And many women, about 20 to 30 percent of women,

will get a prescription from their doctor for vaginal estrogen and then not use it because the

label is so scary. They don't know the label is wrong. So this is local estrogen. It does not even

get, I get why some people are in disbelief. I don't understand how it's not absorbed into the bloodstream,

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