The New Rules of Women’s Health with Meghan Rabbitt
About this episode
Dr. Shivani Gupta and Meghan Rabbitt discuss the systemic research gaps in women's health and practical tools for advocacy.
Most women have felt it. You bring your symptoms to a doctor, you leave without real answers, and somewhere between the waiting room and your car, you start wondering if you are the problem. You are not. In this episode of The Inflammation Code Podcast, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Meghan Rabbitt, award-winning health journalist and author of The New Rules of Women's Health, written for Maria Shriver's imprint after 100+ interviews with all-female medical experts. What they unpack together is both sobering and genuinely useful: the systemic research gaps that have left women without answers, and the practical tools to close that gap for yourself right now. In this episode: Why women were not included in NIH-funded clinical trials until 1993 and how that research gap still affects your care today Why the 40 to 60 window is the most critical period for preventive health and why most women fall off during exactly this time How hot flashes work in the body and why they matter for long-term heart health Why two thirds of Alzheimer's patients are women and what brain researchers are uncovering about estrogen and cognitive health How pregnancy complications like preeclampsia may be…
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