in Chinese medicine we say a woman is 10 times harder to heal than a man.

Wow.

Yeah, our reproductive and that's that is a hundred percent true.

I mean 100 percent true because our reproductive system is biologically expensive.

Very biologically expensive.

You know, running that system is an absolute gift and it's a joy,

but it also takes a really big toll on us and our culture and our society

really there's there's no allowances for this.

Hi friends. Welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering

what it is to be human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill. Today I'm talking to my good friend and now three time guest, Dr.

Susie Hazen. Susie and I talk about women's bodies and the essence of the human energy system.

We had a similar conversation a year ago.

Although a year ago we were both in the depths of energy crash hell

that we released an episode then episode 103 called Midlife Burn Out for Women and why healing work can make us worse.

And so this is a follow-up. This is how we have regained our metabolic health over the last year, what we've learned. Neither of us are experts or scientists, although Susie does have a doctorate in traditional Chinese medicine.

So this conversation is us sharing our personal stories and what has worked, what has brought the healing, and what we've learned because we know that there are just countless other women and humans going through metabolic dysfunction. As Susie says in the

episode, 90% of Americans are metabolically unwell.

It was recently listening to a podcast episode with two people, experts in the metabolic space,

and one of them is a woman who has like a women's I think it's just a

Facebook group that she's been running for 10 years now and she was saying at the beginning

there were no women under 35 who came into her space with metabolic

unwellness, energy crashes, hormone problems, and now she's getting women in their early 20s and

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