How the Medical System Was Designed to Silence Women: The Truth About Female Health, Power & Body Autonomy
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Hope Pedraza discusses the historical exclusion of women from medical research and the implications for female health and body autonomy.
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, Hope Pedraza breaks down why your fatigue, hormonal chaos, and years-long road to diagnosis are not "just how you are." Hope traces the history of women's exclusion from medical research, the modern data on medical gaslighting, and why patriarchal conditioning functions as a literal physiological stressor on your nervous system. Using research on allostatic load, the HPA axis, and Nancy Krieger's ecosocial theory of embodiment, Hope connects centur...
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