Doctors aren't always hormone experts, even OB-GYNs. Bring evidence like Stephanie's book on hormone health to appointments to back up your concerns and advocate for yourself instead of deferring to medical authority.
Follow your intuition. Like, we are really trained to believe that the doctor knows better than us about our own body, and that's just not true. Like, we actually know and we can hear from our body if we start to listen again. And, and when you act on it, then you start to trust yourself again. So, um, super important points. Yeah, sometimes something has developed structurally that needs to be addressed with conventional medicine. We love the OB-GYNs. They have their place. They're just not hormone experts. That's a whole nother topic. Yeah,
so— I want to say something. So I'm going to say something to the listener who's listening that's not a doctor, because you guys, I feel like you have the education and probably the, I don't know, the confidence, I guess, to say to your doctors, like, hey, this is what I want. And so there are women listening right now who are not doctors that need to advocate for themselves. And like, they can do this too. And that's why, Stephanie, your book is so powerful because they can find it in the book. And even if they just have to literally take your book to the doctor, but they just need to know that they, they have the power as well and to be confident because they know their body better than anyone else. So I just wanted to make sure I said that cuz I know there's people listening like, I, I need to advocate but I'm not a doctor. And that's okay, you can still advocate for yourself. Oh my gosh, that's a great point.
Just take the book to the doctor. Literally, like, you have to sometimes have evidence because we can be dense in the head and think we know everything. So yeah.
