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Hey, you're on air with Ella and today it is my pleasure to introduce you to Dr. Carrie Jones. Hey, Carrie, welcome to the show. Oh, my gosh. Hi. Thanks for having me. I'm thrilled to have you, and I'm also thrilled that Dr. Kara Fitzgerald introduced us. A mutual friend. I've had her on the show, and any friend of Dr. Kara Fitzgerald's is a friend of mine. So Carrie, welcome.

Where are you today? I am in sort of kind of sunny Portland, Oregon, but the rain is moving in.

So, welcome to fall. Enjoy it. Enjoy that very tiny, tiny sunny window. Carrie, would you tell us who

you are and what you do? Absolutely. I am a naturopathic doctor and I got into

naturopathic medicine and specifically women's health because I grew up in the south. I grew up in

Kentucky and our health or whatever you want to call that class was taught by the high school

football coach. So you can imagine how that went. And when I was on the conventional medical track,

I thought, this is not what I want to do. I was volunteering in hospitals. I was in surgery wings, pediatric wings, and I didn't like it. I thought if this is medicine, this is terrible. I can't do with this. We're out. So I moved out to Portland, Oregon, with a girlfriend of mine after college graduation and I happen to find naturopathic medicine. The oldest naturopathic medical school is

important. Portland, Oregon with a girlfriend of mine after college graduation, and I happened to find

naturopathic medicine. The oldest naturopathic medical school is in Portland. And I found hormones.

I found women's health. I found endocrinology. And my mentor at the time was in her 40s,

so going through perimenopause, but quite the hormone expert, and I found over and over and

over again, all the patients I would see, they would go, I don't know how this works.

I didn't know that's what happens with my period or this transition or my PMS or how I got

pregnant or how I don't get pregnant just routinely.

And I thought, okay, so your health is what a one was about

like mine. Like we didn't learn very much other than the P goes in the V and that's how you get

pregnant. So don't and you won't. And I knew I had to get much deeper into women's health

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