What Your Bloodwork Isn't Telling You with Dafna Chazin
About this episode
Dafna Chazin discusses her journey and expertise in women's health, focusing on hormones, fertility, and the shortcomings of standard bloodwork.
WHAT IF YOUR FOOD COULD ACTUALLY HEAL YOU? We talk a lot on this show about taking care of yourself from the inside out, and this episode? It hit different. Because our guest has been through it, and she turned that rock bottom into a career helping other women find their way back to their bodies. We sat down with Dafna Chazin, a registered dietitian with over 15 years of experience who now specializes in women's hormones, fertility, and PCOS. Her path wasn't some perfectly planned journey. She was dealing with painful periods, anxiety, acne, and digestive issues in her 20s and said she was, quote, "kind of a hot mess." It took her close to ten years to figure it out herself, and that's exactly why she does what she does now. So nobody else has to take that long. KEY THEMES + TAKEAWAYS Women are being gaslit by a healthcare system that wasn't built for them, and standard bloodwork doesn't tell the whole story The "normal" lab ranges were largely determined using data from men, and even then, sitting at the edges of "normal" can still mean something is off PCOS (now being called PMOS) affects both reproductive and metabolic health, including weight…
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