Brigid TitgemeierBeingBrigid Functional Nutrition · Transforming Women's Health Using Food as Medicine

Women Deserve Care That Fits Our Biology

9 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Brigid Titgemeier argues that women’s health care has been built on a foundation of male‑centric research, assuming that protocols effective for men automatically work for women. She cites Dr. Stacy Sims’s long‑standing claim that “women are not small men” to underscore the biological reality that women experience distinct, profound physiological changes across multiple life stages—including monthly hormonal cycles, preparation for pregnancy, gestation, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, perimenopause, and menopause. Titgemeier contends that these shifts demand dedicated research and tailored medical approaches rather than the one‑size‑fits‑all model derived from male studies. She calls for advocacy and systemic change to recognize and address these differences, urging the medical community and society to develop care that truly fits women’s biology.

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Women deserve better, period. Women are not the same as men. Women's health is not the same as males health. Even though for decades women's health was built off of the research that we had in males health and the assumptions that whatever worked well for men worked fine for women, protocols that work really well for men do not translate to working really well for women. As Dr. Stacy Sims has said for years, women are not small men. And it's time for us to advocate for the differences in women's health versus men's health and different approaches that we deserve in order to support our health in the best way possible. So not only has the majority of research been done in males, but the various life stages that a woman goes through. Think of all the life stages that a woman goes through that involve incredible physiological changes. You think about just the changes every month that a woman goes through as far as the hormonal shifts that are happening. But then even on a larger level, like preparing the body for pregnancy if over a woman chooses and becomes pregnant, carrying babies through pregnancy, the postpartum experience, perimenopause, menopause, so many shifts, breastfeeding, I didn't even include breastfeeding. All of these involve large shifts in our physiology that we are essentially just told that we have to deal with and push through and.