Less than 20% of clinical trials are done in females.

Because we're actually quite difficult beasts to do trials in because we have hormones.

But I had to do a trial in females to get my approval in Australia.

I was a bit grumpy on this because it cost quarter of a million dollars and it took over 18 months.

But the results were stunning, absolutely stunning.

Women are more sensitive to GLP1.

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie. It's me, my friends.

Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Steema.

Do you find that you are hungrier in the second half of your cycle, if you're still a menstruating woman?

Or if you are menopausal, that you are, you have those menopausal munchies that you are finding that your appetite is

getting out of control. Well, I am very excited to talk to you today about some different

strategies that we can do to naturally suppress our appetite. Now, you probably already know that

there is, you know, a class of drugs called GLP-1s,

very famous by now, that can certainly do that.

But are we taking a sledgehammer to kill an ant?

Are we renting out a Hummer or an army truck to run over a cockroach?

Two examples that are actually in today's podcast.

So listen out for them.

What if it doesn't need to be that extreme?

What if we can actually take a supplement that has been used for thousands of years

that is generally regarded as safe that has very similar outcomes to something like a

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