Leuprorelin

Well, and not just in places where they have a more socialized system, but even in some providers like here in the United States, I hear stories of like, oh, my insurance won't cover my surgery until I've exhausted every other option.

First, I have to go on Lupron, which I don't want to go on.

But like, that's the only way that I'll get my surgery.

Authorized by my insurance right and I feel like they put us a day is in like just the system the overall health care system like they put us in these positions where we have to take things in our do things with our body that we don't want to do and like what kind of body autonomy is that I mean it's it's not.

A lot of people... myself, you, we don't want to swap that, right? We want a method of alleviating our pain that doesn't totally tank our mental health.

And then something you said when you're talking about, well, so I went into the IUD and you kind of like clarified, but like, yeah, I had an open mind, right? I wasn't like negative, like, oh, it won't work.

And in that moment when you said that, it's kind of reminds me of there's so much now about how social media is hurting the endometriosis patient because like, oh, the patient's mind is like getting poisoned by social media because we go on social media and we see other patients complaining about, you know, Lupron and And hormones and ablation.

And then like, we don't want those things.

See, I really got confused.

Lupron is the agonist.

That's why you get an initial burst.

So when you give Lupron, you can get an initial flare of symptoms, especially if you give that you know, earlier on in the menstrual cycle.

But this doesn't matter because this is a GnRH receptor antagonist.

So this blocks it.

So remember, Lupron or Luprolide is an agonist.

The oral medication Relagolist is a receptor antagonist.

You've got to deal with the endometriosis.

So she says, what should I do? I said, you should be on Lupron for three months before you do the transfer.

Lupron is a medication that stops the brain from sending out FSH and LH, and as a result of that, there's no follicular development, and as a result of that, there's no estrogen.

Estrogen is the food of endometriosis.

So if you give a patient Lupron for three months, you're putting her in menopause.

She's gonna have vaginal dryness, she's gonna have night sweats, she's gonna be irritable, it sucks.

but it completely suppresses the endometriosis.

Listen, I can't make generalizations, but some of these guys are brilliant, and some of them are just bird brains.

So I always felt like I had to look amazing.

And I didn't always look amazing because my weight fluctuated often with the hormones, right? Before we transferred this baby, I did a drug called Lupron, which I'm sure some of your listeners are familiar with.

It's a common drug for endometriosis patients and horrible.

Like that was the worst.

And we can sustain it and burn the candle at both ends in our 20s, even with whatever the underpinning is and what our prototype is, what's in our genes.

But once we hit 30s, and that's why I had this epiphany over 30 years ago when I started Women's Health at Yale, I remember I was working in the field of peptides, GnRH analogs, which were used for Lupron, for example, which is used for IVF.

It's also used in children with precocious puberty.

So I was lucky enough to see every decade of life.

But what do you think about this?

Well, I think that Lupron, the chemical that they use to transition kids, is also what they use to chemically castrate sex offenders in prison.

So this is a very dangerous avenue that we've gone down with this transgender agenda.

And it's not accidental.