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plus get free shipping on orders over $75. of the fine. All the fine. All right ladies, this is a very important episode for all of us because we have Dr.

Alia Bade on and she is a force. She is board certified OBGYN and is here to

educate us on our bodies to help us advocate for our own health. As women I

think we get dismissed actually she said it.

She's an OBGYN, she's brilliant.

We get dismissed all of the time, all of our feelings, our symptoms, and enough is enough.

So my hope is that you can gain confidence and validation from this knowledge to be able to diagnose

yourself and advocate for yourself in the doctor's office because knowledge is

power and you're not alone. Do you live here? From where though? I'm Persian.

I was born in Iran. I came here when I was 17.

Oh wow! And then got into like to start going to education and I went to the last year of high school because I didn't speak English.

Yeah, so I didn't apply to college

obviously because I came here literally six months before graduation.

And then I went to Foothill College and from Foothill College I transferred to Berkeley after two years, graduated top of my class at Berkeley, applied to medical school, but because my English was still so weak, I took m-cat and the verbal reasoning the English

part of it when I was halfway into it they're like time's up I was like what

so I started bubbling all bees and of course I got I remember I got six I think it was out of 15 for medical school that's a big no no yeah

And even though I was top of my grade at Berkeley, they told me you're not going to be able to keep up with the readings in medical school.

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