Since growing up with medical terminology around me and understanding some of the different aspects of the next generation of medical practice, I found myself very attracted by the business side of medicine.
At the beginning of 2016, I found myself being pulled, mentally, by an emerging field called the medical cannabis space.
As a chemist, he approached one of his friends at the police station and he asked if he could borrow some of the confiscated hash in order to study what’s inside of it.
This was actually a door opener that allowed for 50 years of research in academia here in Israel.
It was followed by the discovery here, in 1992, of the endocannabinoids system, which was the second major discovery in Israel.
This course actually opened my eyes to the realization that, first of all, Israel has such a unique value proposition for the world for this emerging cannabis industry.
This realization was that research and development is key for acceptance of regulators, the medical community, the scientific community, and the patients, most of all, and the only way to bring comfort, credibility, safety is by bringing research, development, and proper scientific manners to such an emerging field.
It said that the female reproductive system is actually the organ with most endocannabinoids in our body after the brain.
We already have those receptors, but once we use cannabis, we’re able to trigger them and activate those receptors.
This is one of the things that allowed me to realize that the field of women’s health is quite unaddressed.
There is Viagra in the market, but there is no solution for the ailment and the pain of hundreds of millions of women who suffer daily from different issues.
In the past year or two, we have seen a great rise in interest in what’s called FemTech, female technologies.
We see a lot of synergy because both subjects have been neglected by the public, industry, and regulators for many, many years.
Just as we see the women empowerment movement in different arenas, so when you speak about their health, this should be a top priority.
If you’re looking at entrepreneurs considering what type of venture they want to be doing, what are some tips so that they can not be taken aback by the tabooness of the subject or just expose themselves to this subject? There’s less material about this, less hype around this.
As a young male who is not a doctor, how am I the one speaking about women’s health and trying to provide solutions to a problem of hundreds of millions of women worldwide? Because we’ve taken off the table the taboos and are able to speak about it freely without a slight laugh or a wink, it allows us to do it the right way.
In the end, we need to neglect and avoid all the different stigmas and emotional aspects of speaking about sexual matters and menstruation.