The Epidemic of Women Undernourishing - Ashley Wulkan
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Many (if not most) women today are- often unintentionally and without realizing it- undernourishing to the point that our basic biological needs are not being met. Exhausted, anxious, and chasing down symptom after symptom, we are spending time, energy, and money on hormone testing, microbiome analysis, genetic sequencing, supplement protocols, etc. all while unknowingly not taking in enough calories and/or micronutrients for our bodies to work properly in the first place.
Our culture today is awash in contradictory health information, food fear, warped wellness idealogies, and impossible beauty standards, but confusion around food and bodies goes back to at least our grandmothers' generation. We inherit nourishment beliefs and practices just as we inherit our mineral and nutrient stores.
Ashley Wulkan- mother, herbalist, nutritionist, and mineral balancing practitioner- and I wish to simplify nourishment for women, not add to the noise. We do this for not only ourselves but for our collective mothers who never overcame their own food issues, and for our collective daughters who we fervently pray will adequately nourish themselves and their descendents far into the future.
Let's rewrite the story.
LINKS:
Medicine Stories Patreon- bonus conversation on The Imprint of Nourishment- what we inherit and what we pass down
Healing Waters Nature Immersion Retreat in Costa Rica Nov 3-8
The Mythic Medicine herb shop
Ashley's Free Guide Fundamental Nourishment for the Mother Body
Ashley on Instagram
Amber on Instagram
Quiz: Find Your Wise Woman Archetype
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If women aren't eating, it doesn't matter what tools we're pulling out of our toolbox, |
| 0:04.8 | they're not going to get better. When you're depleted because of undernourishment, |
| 0:10.2 | you are wired to pick up every single threat. Carbohydrates alone can really get your body |
| 0:18.0 | through some micronutrient deficiencies, right? It's just, it's raw energy. So if you |
| 0:23.0 | give your body that, you don't need to be as stressed out about getting the perfect, you know, |
| 0:29.4 | minerals and vitamins and everything. Hi, are you a woman? Are you a mother? Are you midlife or approaching it? Well, if so, there's a very good chance that you are under eating. Maybe you're not, some women aren't. Most women, in my observation, are. Most women are. I was for, oh my gosh, age 12 to age 43. |
| 1:01.3 | Yes, yes. Without realizing it completely subconsciously. At no point in my life was I dieting. |
| 1:10.4 | I was eating healthy. |
| 1:11.9 | I was optimizing my health. |
| 1:13.8 | But even when I wasn't doing that, I was under eating. |
| 1:18.4 | I did not know how to feed myself. |
| 1:20.0 | I had no idea what nourishment actually meant and was so confused by what nourishment meant, |
| 1:27.1 | more confused every year as time went on, |
| 1:31.3 | that it was only when I started tracking when I was eating about a year and a half ago, |
| 1:35.8 | that I realized, oh my God, oh my God. |
| 1:40.6 | This is not nearly enough calories. |
| 1:42.7 | And no wonder, no wonder. You guys, the reason I am so on |
| 1:46.5 | fire about this topic is that like every experience in my life, certainly symptoms and health |
| 1:54.1 | issues, but mental health issues, relationships, high sensitivity, on and on and on, endless, endless. |
| 2:03.3 | My entire experience of being in my body can be explained by the fact that I was never |
| 2:09.6 | eating enough. |
| 2:10.5 | So not only not getting enough calories, energy to fuel my body, but never getting enough |
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