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Meghan Rabbitt has been a health journalist for 25 years. And the thing she said to me about reporting this book was: why don't I know this?
If she didn't know it, what are the rest of us working with?
Meghan writes about women's health for Women's Health, Oprah Daily, Prevention, and Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper. Her book, The New Rules of Women's Health, came out of years of interviews with the people actually doing the research. Her phrase for what she wants for all of us is that we become our own health journalists.
🔹 Your pregnancy history is heart information. Preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, even recurrent miscarriage. Pregnancy is the heart's first stress test, and the results don't expire when the baby arrives.
🔹 The lifetime breast cancer risk number you can calculate yourself. Meghan ran hers, brought it in, and that is the only reason she got her first MRI.
🔹 Why joining a research study can mean free care. She got a thousand dollars of genetic testing out of one.
🔹 Vaginal estrogen, and the applicator that was clearly invented by a dude. Zero instructions in the box. I spend real time counseling people through this.
🔹 What happened when she finally went to pelvic floor PT, and why "just do your Kegels" was never an assessment
Something I say on air and mean: ask us. We will talk to you for days. Nobody has to pry this out of us.
What questions have YOU been waiting to have answered?
Meghan's book: newrulesofwomenshealth.com · Instagram: @MeghanRabbitt
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