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performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Viva Rahm is both a midwife and an internal medicine

in board certified family physician with specialties in the integrative gynecology with a focus

on women's endocrinology. She's also a world renowned herbalist, bestselling author,

and her latest must read is titled Hormone Intelligence. The complete guide to calming hormone chaos

and restoring your body's natural blueprint for well-being. It's not her to have her back on the show

today. Aviva, welcome. Jason, thank you for having me on the show again. It's so great to be here

with you. It's so great to have you. Congrats on the book. It's a big book. It's an important book

and why is it big and why is it important? As you say, there's a hidden hormone epidemic. And so

let's start there. What are we still getting so wrong about women's hormones? Oh wow. Boy, that's

a jack-in-the-box question, isn't it? Well, I think the first thing is that when we define women's,

when we define a hormone across the board, if someone were to say to a doctor, a scientist,

some maybe even someone on the street who's studied a little, what's a hormone? We know that it's a

chemical messenger. And so I jokingly say we've been shooting the messenger. But we look at women's

gynecologic issues, but also emotions, mood changes, cyclic changes. And what do we say? Are you

hormonal? Are you on your period? We tend to blame hormones, but we're shooting the messenger

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