What Chinese Medicine Understands About Health That We’ve Forgotten | feat. Jiaming Ju
About this episode
Gabby Reece talks with Jiaming Ju about the insights of Chinese medicine on health and the hidden costs of high-performance living.
In this episode, I talk with Jiaming Ju, a practitioner of Chinese medicine and a health economist whose work sits at the intersection of traditional medicine, modern health challenges, and the pressures of high-performance living. Jiaming works with a wide range of patients — from Olympic athletes and artists to CEOs and young women navigating hormonal health. What she sees in her practice is something we don’t talk about enough: the hidden cost of performance. From the outside, many of these people look like the healthiest in the room. They’re disciplined, driven, and successful. But internally, many of them are struggling with hormonal disruption, autoimmune issues, digestive problems, chronic stress, and burnout. In our conversation, we explore some of the patterns Jiaming sees again and again in her patients, and how Chinese medicine approaches health differently than the symptom-based model most of us are used to. Instead of looking at isolated diagnoses, Chinese medicine asks a bigger question: what patterns are happening in the body as a whole? Together we talk about: • Why elite athletes — especially female athletes — often struggle with hormonal disruption • The…
Topics covered
- Chinese medicine
- health
- high-performance living
- hormonal health
- autoimmune issues
- chronic stress
- gut health
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