What does it actually mean to know your body and how do we get there when the medical system, social media, and decades of inadequate education have left most women without the tools to even ask the right questions?

In this rich and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with award-winning health journalist and author Meghan Rabbitt to talk about her landmark book The New Rules of Women's Health, a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to women's health at every stage of life. Meghan spent three years interviewing over 130 all-female experts across medicine, research, and clinical practice to create the book she wishes every woman had on her shelf.

What We Talk About

• How a single magazine article on women's brain health — and one phone call with Maria Shriver — led Meghan to write this book

• Why "bikini medicine" is no longer enough and what a truly comprehensive view of women's health actually looks like

• Meghan's personal story of years of heavy periods, fibroids that went undetected, and what she learned about her own role in that

• The single most powerful thing you can do before your next doctor's appointment — and it takes less than ten minutes

• Why women brag about their high pain tolerance and the real cost of that habit

• The evidence — or lack of it — behind cycle syncing

• The shame we carry about our own bodies and why it is costing us our health

• Why it's time to start calling things by their actual names

• How to be an empowered partner in your own care — not a passive recipient of it

About Meghan Rabbitt

Meghan Rabbitt is an award-winning health journalist whose work has appeared in Prevention, Women's Health, and dozens of other national publications. She spent three years and interviewed over 130 all-female experts to write The New Rules of Women's Health — Your Guide to Thriving at Every Age, a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to women's health across every life stage. She has worked closely with Maria Shriver and the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and is one of the most trusted voices in women's health journalism today.

Connect with Meghan

• Find The New Rules of Women's Health: https://newrulesofwomenshealth.com/

• Follow Meghan on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/meghanrabbitt

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