McCall McPherson talks with an expert about Kaisertrex, an oral testosterone therapy. Daily pills mimic natural hormone rhythms better than weekly injections, which create spikes and drops. Injections currently dominate at 98% of the market, but patients prefer taking pills.
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Tell us a little bit about Kaisertrex, why it's such a significant development in the world of testosterone replacement. What makes it the game changing treatment that it really is?
Again, oral testosterone or testosterone capsules have effectively been a holy grail for development in terms of the pharmaceutical world for 20 plus years. Again, we know injections have been around and gels have been around, but patients prefer pills. It's just easier to integrate. And we know that's when you have the highest levels of adherence. So the development of this was very critical. But really what makes this unique, it goes back to our body's physiological state. We produce hormones on a daily basis. When you're sleeping, that's when you have these secretions and you peak in the morning and effectively use them through the day. These other forms, especially injections, which is the dominant therapy 98% of folks are on, like you mentioned, they're kind of over the course of a week. So you have this big spike and then you're crashing later in the week. Whereas in Kaiser Tracks, since you're dosing this on a daily basis, it effectively is the most closely mimicking your natural circadian rhythm. And I think that's really where the magic starts to happen because your body is using it as it's meant to be used. Right. Testosterone, again, it's actually very different than a lot of, let's call them, quote unquote, pharmaceutical products where they're sort of manipulating antagonists and so forth. This is replacement.
