All in Her Head with Elizabeth Comen, MD (Episode 168)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

From being burned as witches to being barred from attending medical school, from being dismissed as hysterical to well, just being dismissed, from being shamed to being sexualized, the medical system has a long, sordid history in how it treats women and women’s health. And those toxic roots still poison the waters we have to navigate to this day. If you’ve ever wondered why we’re so far off the back with regards to our understanding of women’s health and wellness and treatment, this week’s guest Dr. Elizabeth Comen, author of All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today has some answers. Prepare to have your head explode as we dig into it in this episode.

Elizabeth Comen, MD, has dedicated her medical career to saving the lives of women. An award-winning, internationally sought-after clinician and physician-scientist, Dr. Comen works as a medical oncologist with a specialty in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She earned her BA in the history of science from Harvard College and her MD from Harvard Medical School, then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and her fellowship in oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She lives in New York City with her family. You can learn more about her and her work and buy her book at www.drelizabethcomen.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.9	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.0	So, before we start this week, I'd like to take a moment.
0:39.7	And if you're not driving, I would like all of you to close your eyes and take a deep breath,
0:48.6	inhaling slowly through your nose and then forcefully exhaling out of your mouth.
0:59.0	And then repeat that a few times, inhaling and exhaling until you feel calm and relaxed.
1:18.1	Okay, are you calm and relaxed? Good, because I have a conversation this week that is going to send your blood pressure to the moon. If you've ever wondered why the
1:25.0	medical system has been so incredibly off the back when it comes to women's health
1:30.2	issues like women's heart disease, menopause, autoimmune disorders, hell, you name it.
1:37.1	It's because the origins of Western medicine, as we know it, was created and perpetuated
1:42.9	by men during an astonishingly sexist and
1:47.1	misogynistic time. And those roots permeate the system to this day and have real
1:53.7	staying power. And man, I knew a lot of that, but there was a ton I did not know until I read this week's guest's new book,
2:07.3	all in her head. The truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it
2:14.5	matters today. It's written by the amazing Dr. Elizabeth Komen, who has dedicated
2:21.6	her medical career to saving the lives of women. Comen is an award-winning internationally sought
2:28.3	after clinician and physician scientist who works as a medical oncologist with a specialty
2:33.6	in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan
2:36.3	Kettering Cancer Center and she is also an assistant professor of medicine at Wheel Cornell Medical
2:42.2	College. And she went deep into the history of her field and has written a really important
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