Women’s Comprehensive Outpatient Clinic and Antiaging

The Women’s Comprehensive Outpatient Clinic is a division of obstetrics and gynecology, divided into four departments: ① Obstetrics and perinatal care, ② Reproductive medicine, ③ Obstetrics and gynecology tumors, and ④ Women’s healthcare. In terms of internal medicine, the concept of gender-specific medicine was established in the United States’ review of women’s healthcare, and the Women’s Comprehensive Outpatient Clinic became a place to practice women’s medicine and gender-specific medicine. Gender-specific medicine considers diseases that men and women are prone to, taking into account ① Sex (biological differences), ② Gender (psychological and sociological differences, cultural differences in the case of doctors), and reflects these considerations in medical care and policy, as learned from Dr. Keiko Amano. Women were often associated with “bikini medicine” due to the focus on breasts, uterus, and ovaries. Men are easily associated with the prostate and testicles, but it’s not just the reproductive system. Recently, it has been found that there are gender differences in the pathology and treatment of diseases common to both men and women, and that fluctuations in sex hormone secretion at each life stage are important for the onset and progression of diseases. This concept of gender-specific medicine (considering biological and sociological differences and the impact of life stages) was introduced a quarter of a century ago, and recently, with the advent of femtech (products that can solve various issues at women’s life stages such as “menstruation,” “fertility and pregnancy,” “pregnancy and postpartum,” “pre-menopause and menopause”), gendered innovation is attracting attention again, with the male version being called maletech. Now, let’s consider diseases that women are prone to at each life stage [1–5].