Hi, everyone. Dr. Axe here. I'd like to introduce you to the new co-host of our show, Dr.

Christopher Motley. Dr. Motley is an expert in traditional Chinese medicine, nutritional therapy,

herbal remedies, and functional medicine analysis. He runs a virtual clinic where he cares for

people from around the world and is the go-to physician for many celebrities. Dr. Motley is a dear

friend of mine and he's a type of doctor that I trust my own family with and I hope you enjoy

his wisdom and his wonderful questions as he interviews today's guest on our show.

Hey friends, Dr. Motley here, co-host of the Dr. Josh Axe podcast, and today I have the privilege

of talking to an expert, an expert in the world of women's health, women's medicine, hormones.

Basically ecology. I've studied her stuff, thyroid adrenals. If you want to know about this stuff,

you need to follow Dr. Aviva Rom. Dr. Aviva Rom, thank you so much for joining us here on the podcast

and we want to talk about all things women's health. Thank you so much. My absolute pleasure. I'm

so excited to talk with you. Oh, it's such a privilege for me to meet you. There are me times,

okay, in the health industry. When you read books like literally you keep books in your office like

to study about thyroid and adrenals in my office. I do much Chinese medicine, different forms of

laboratory testing, kinesiology, and I always try to find references back to finding out about

the adrenal kickback mechanism, the thyroid mechanisms. Now, we're going to get into hormones.

I think many of the people out there want to know about you, Aviva. So let's start off. I just

want to say I read your credentials. I love your website. So anybody out there, you got to check

your website out. Such great info. And you're a Yale trained, you are a Yale trained medical doctor.

And I read, I tried to dig a little deeper though too, but you have a really interesting

hack story about how you got into health and at a very young age and you went through some trials.

Do you mind touching on that a bit and just letting people know where you came from to get to this

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