What Chinese Medicine Understands About Health That We’ve Forgotten | feat. Jiaming Ju
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk with Jiaming Ju, a practitioner of Chinese medicine and a health economist whose work sits at the intersection of traditional medicine, modern health challenges, and the pressures of high-performance living.
Jiaming works with a wide range of patients — from Olympic athletes and artists to CEOs and young women navigating hormonal health. What she sees in her practice is something we don’t talk about enough: the hidden cost of performance.
From the outside, many of these people look like the healthiest in the room. They’re disciplined, driven, and successful. But internally, many of them are struggling with hormonal disruption, autoimmune issues, digestive problems, chronic stress, and burnout.
In our conversation, we explore some of the patterns Jiaming sees again and again in her patients, and how Chinese medicine approaches health differently than the symptom-based model most of us are used to.
Instead of looking at isolated diagnoses, Chinese medicine asks a bigger question: what patterns are happening in the body as a whole?
Together we talk about:
• Why elite athletes — especially female athletes — often struggle with hormonal disruption
• The psychological pressure that comes with high performance and identity
• The rise of autoimmune diseases and thyroid disorders
• Why digestion and gut health are often at the center of chronic illness
• The emotional patterns that can show up in physical symptoms
• ADHD and how Chinese medicine interprets attention, energy, and focus
• The connection between eating disorders and hormonal health
• Fertility challenges and the growing reliance on IVF
• How stress and modern life may be pushing many bodies out of balance
• The relationship between emotional suppression and physical illness
• Skin health, beauty, and what they may reveal about internal health
We also talk about something that doesn’t get enough space in medical conversations: how people make decisions when facing serious diagnoses.
Jiaming shares why she encourages patients to slow down when possible, ask deeper questions, and consider the broader picture of their health before rushing into fear-based decisions.
This conversation is ultimately about something bigger than any single diagnosis. It’s about how we live, how we handle pressure, and how we listen — or don’t listen — to the signals our bodies are constantly sending us.
For me, it was a reminder that health is rarely about one thing. It’s about the system we’re living in — physically, emotionally, and culturally.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:03.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm your host, Gabby Reese, and let's face it, none of us have the answers. |
| 0:09.5 | But that's why I think having the conversations with some of the smartest people, whether |
| 0:13.2 | it's in health and fitness, relationships, parenting, even business, gives us an opportunity |
| 0:18.8 | to take complex ideas, simplify them, and put them in our |
| 0:22.7 | day-to-day lives and make them more manageable and easier and more fun. Remember to subscribe and |
| 0:29.1 | like, and it's all an experiment. |
| 0:39.5 | Jean-Mang-Ju, welcome to the show. |
| 0:41.4 | This is our second time together. |
| 0:43.1 | It's so lovely to see you. |
| 0:49.6 | And we were just talking off-camera, and that's why I want to start that you were sharing that you've been working with some athletes. |
| 0:52.1 | And maybe before we get started, you have the most incredible |
| 0:55.6 | story of somebody who comes from finance to your second generation Chinese medicine practitioner. |
| 1:01.6 | And you also work with your dad. I mean, you know, he helps you sort of diagnose and there's a |
| 1:07.5 | back and forth and a writing down. And so now we were talking about you, |
| 1:12.9 | you've been working with some patients that are athletes and maybe, and some Olympic athletes. |
| 1:19.1 | And so I think a lot of times people look at athletes and they think, oh, they're healthier |
| 1:24.3 | than everybody. But they don't also realize there's an interesting and invisible cost, sometimes for either, you know, the repetitive motion, the restrictive, you know, there's sometimes restriction if it's eating like gymnastics, right? There's all kinds of things or traveling, competing stress, inflammation, all the things. So let's start there because |
| 1:48.7 | I think it's fascinating. I thank you so much for seeing me again. It's such a joy. It's such a |
| 1:55.2 | privilege treating athletes because they're so amazing just in every single way. |
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