Dr. Marielle Bouquet

And so it shows up in different ways for different people, but typically what it shows up as is a lot of exhaustion, emotional exhaustion and physical exhaustion.

Well, we are unfortunately socialized in a very gendered way.

So there are ways in which women tend to have a lot of emotional suppression, which as we know, also, you know, has a lot of connections to the conditions that we tend to see mostly in women, especially autoimmune conditions.

Yeah.

For example, women are overly represented when it comes to conditions like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even some metabolic conditions, diabetes.

There are so many of the conditions that tie back to that allostatic load that connect to how the body is then

able to protect itself against disease, against chronic illness, that then tends to impact women a lot more than men.

Well, there is a suppression of the immune system, right?

The immune system is suppressed and that is what triggers the process of autoimmunity.

With men, we tend to see a little bit more of an externalized version of their pain, right?

And so it's more outward, more anger, but underneath there's pain and pain.

There's hurt and hurt.

There's sadness and sadness, grief and grief.

Right.

But the thing is that unfortunately for society, we've also conditioned ourselves.

everyone, I guess, you know, to just like, let me backtrack.

You're doing great, by the way.

Thank you.

What I also see in my practice is that the predominance of people that actually come in for help happen to be women.

So whenever I get an opportunity and it is, you know, a deep honor to work with