Dr. Betty Murray explains how binary thinking in medicine fails women: either dismiss symptoms as normal aging or push quick pharmaceutical fixes. Women are chronically underrepresented in longevity research and often prescribed male-based dosages that don't work for female biology.
The reality is, is for many, many women and generations, women's health has been plagued by this binary thinking. We're either given no options or told that our symptoms are just part of aging. And, we are handed either quick-fix pharmaceutical Band-Aids that are stacks of medications that completely ignore female biology, or we've been underrepresented even in the brosphere Longevity research and metabolic research for far too long. And so either we're applying men's doses or doses that don't really work in a combined therapy sort of way, or we're just driving without instructions.
