I am a distinguished professor at UNC School of Medicine and an MS patient. My disease began when I was only 20 and I suffered for many years until I discovered that my pregnant hormones and Vitamin D were severely deficient. Compounded hormone therapy has dramatically improved my health and allowed me to live a productive life, doing my research and teaching at UNC. In recent years, my group discovered that certain natural endogenous steroids have anti-inflammatory properties that target serious diseases of the brain caused by cytokines and chemokines. Our new work is leading to new treatments for long Covid, pain, depression, alcohol use disorders, and other inflammatory conditions. Natural steroids hold great promise in modern medicine and making them unavailable is akin to denying insulin to patients with diabetes. Stop special interests from usurping science to prop up pharmaceutical industry interests above service to humankind.