Women Aren’t Small Men. 6 Daily-Life Health Shifts to Start Making Today
After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings
Dear Media and Big Little Feelings
4.5 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you’re a woman - or you love one! - this episode will change how you understand women’s bodies. Because here’s the sad truth: Women’s health has been built on research that largely ignored women. We’ve been handed one-size-fits-all advice for bodies that are anything but. And millions of moms are walking around exhausted, depleted, hormonally off, and wondering, “Why the hell do I feel like this?” So today, we’re going deep into what’s actually happening inside women’s bodies, and what real support should look like.
Deena sits down with Victoria Thain Gioia, co-founder and CEO of Perelel, a doctor-backed women’s health brand created after her daughter was born with a nutrition-related birth condition - a moment that exposed just how massive the gaps are in prenatal and maternal care.
Together, they unpack the reality women live every day:
• Hormones that shift constantly
• Nutrient needs that change across life stages
• The invisible physical load of motherhood
• The pressure to function while depleted
• Why “just take a vitamin” was never enough
This episode is designed to be practical, with simple tweaks you can start making today to optimize your health. You’ll learn:
✔ Why women’s bodies need different support than men’s
✔ The biggest daily nutrition gaps affecting moms
✔ How protein, fiber, and muscle health impact hormones and energy
✔ Why simple routines matter more than perfection
✔ What “stage-specific” support actually means
✔ The small daily shifts that help women feel better in their bodies
This conversation is equal parts science, motherhood reality, and permission to make yourself high up on your to-do list. If you’ve ever felt exhausted, off, depleted, or like your body changed after kids, this episode will make you feel seen, informed, and empowered to start supporting yourself again. Because moms give everything. It’s about damn time someone supported YOU.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome back to another episode of After Bedtime, and today we're talking about women's bodies, women's health, and the kind of support moms actually deserve. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm going to be honest, this conversation hit me in a really personal way. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm freshly postpartum right now. And if you've |
| 0:22.5 | ever been in that season where your hormones feel like they're just playing a prank on you, |
| 0:27.0 | your nervous system is fried, and you're trying to keep tiny humans alive, while also remembering |
| 0:31.8 | that you are a human, you know what I mean. And we are all parenting in a time right now where we have more information |
| 0:38.7 | than ever, which is amazing. And it's also kind of brutal because it can make you feel like |
| 0:43.7 | you have to do everything perfectly. So today we have a guest. I'm very excited to bring her on. |
| 0:49.2 | Her name is Victoria Thane Joya. And she is the co-founder and CEO of Parallow, a doctor-backed women's health |
| 0:56.7 | brand built around stage-specific support for women, from conception to pregnancy to postpartum |
| 1:03.0 | and beyond. |
| 1:04.0 | Tori began her career in investment banking and private equity before transitioning into |
| 1:08.5 | finance and operating roles at early stage startups like |
| 1:11.7 | the honest company, all of in June and Carbon 38. But the reason that she built this company |
| 1:18.7 | is what makes this episode so powerful. It all started with her second daughter, who was born |
| 1:24.3 | with a cleft lip, a condition often linked to nutritional deficiencies |
| 1:27.8 | during pregnancy, and it opened Victoria's eyes to something that so many moms just feel in |
| 1:33.3 | their bones. So this sparked a mission to change the standard of care for women and break that |
| 1:39.1 | one-size-fits-all model that's just dominated the supplement category for decades now. An exclusive for the |
| 1:45.6 | after-bedtime listeners, visit parallelhealth.com, and you can get 20% off your first order. She's a |
| 1:51.7 | mom of four. So we talk all about the chaos, the mom guilt, the comparison spiral, the pressure |
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