Fempower Health:
A Women's Health Podcast

“It’s not one size fits all with nutrition. There are medical conditions where [certain foods] can be tough on the gut." Dr. Chris Damman

“When you don’t feed your gut, your gut will feed on you.” - Robert H. Lustig, MD

“If you don’t have healthy hormones, you can’t have a healthy vulva. If you don’t have a healthy vulva, you can’t have a healthy bladder.”

“Everyone is the authority on their own experience. But we’re not taught that.” - Adie Delaney

“Most of us are very unprepared. We have no idea what it means when the aging [of a loved one] happens — the emotional impact it has on us."

"When an important relationship changes or breaks, it’s [grieving] onset by loss. The loved one is still living, but it's changed."

“There is no such thing as giving and receiving too much pleasure. Embracing pleasure is a healing act — especially for women.”

Read an interview with Megan Pearson, founder of PCOSAA, on PCOS symptoms and treatment options, from the Fempower Health Podcast.

“Society and marketing is literally driving our drinking behavior. When I realized that, I got really ticked off.”

“Because of the connection between the gut and vaginal microbiome, anything you can do to keep your gut healthy will help the vagina, too.

“Gripping onto your happiness is the same thing as gripping onto your pain.” - Iona Holloway

“Focusing exclusively on this genetic basis of mental health is our least hopeful mental health narrative and it's inaccurate." - Dr. Vora

"There’s no perfect, untainted path. Whatever path we choose in life is going to come with some regrets, challenges, and suffering.”

“I love that a lot of big brands are trying to get their foot in the door with the ‘clean’ movement - but ‘clean’ is not defined."

“In today’s medical system, physicians let women down all the time. Sleep and menopause are maybe two of the biggest ways we do that.”

“It's important for us to flip the perception of menopause from a doom-and-gloom thing to one where women feel this is a celebratory time."

“It’s possible to have severe endometriosis but no pain, and it’s possible to have no endometriosis but severe pain."

‘Let me do my kegels after I have a baby so that I don’t pee my pants.’ But it’s really so much more than that.

“There is so much that changes during pregnancy and postpartum — we don’t always attribute those changes to thyroid health."

“Pelvic pain is complex, it’s often difficult to differentiate the cause. That’s why UTIs & bladder pain syndrome are so often misdiagnosed.

Whatever is possible to be prevented should be, but prevention isn’t going to happen using technologies that we’ve used in the past.

“Women with ADHD tend to over-function and mask their sensitivity. It’s really difficult to get the respect we need.” - Dr. Tamara Rosier

“Just because someone cannot reproduce your pain doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. " - Dr Melissa Farmer

“I don’t think surgery should be what validates a woman’s pain. She should be validated when she’s talking about her pain." -Dr Peta Wright

“Addressing pain and musculoskeletal health as a whole works best when coming from a coordinated care team." - Karen Stander