This longevity craze was not built for women. Women weren't required in U.S. clinical research until 1993. Today, less than 2% of health innovation funding goes toward female-specific conditions beyond cancer, this gap shapes everything from how we're diagnosed to whether we're believed.
Host Sophia Li sits down with female experts in longevity to unpack a double bind most women will recognize: shamed for suffering quietly, shamed for seeking treatment. The same tools that read as visionary biohacking on a man read as vanity on a woman.
Together, they talk through what it might look like to build longevity around cyclical living instead of linear optimization — honoring rest and recovery through postpartum, perimenopause and menopause and making the case that joy, community, and connection may be the most powerful and the least monetizable longevity intervention we have.
Speakers:
Anne Fulenwider, Co-Founder, Alloy Health
Priyanka Jain, Co-Founder, Evvy
Elaine Purcell, Co-founder, Oula Health
Dr. Judith Joseph, Mental health expert and board-certified psychiatrist
Recorded live at 113 Spring, a new wellness destination in the heart of Soho that translates longevity from a complex, technical concept into something human and accessible. This is a three-part series with 113 Spring, join our next discussion on the importance of death doulas in the Fall. Follow @113spring and @steward.media for updates.
