Liz Moody

Women have been told how we have to show up at work, in our relationships, in our families, in society at large, forever.

And it turns out it's costing us way more than we thought.

It's making us sick.

And we're just at the beginning stages of research that will change how we think about disease forever.

My guest today, Sarah Hirsch Bordeaux, is a 15-time award-winning documentary filmmaker who has made films for Toyota, ESPN, The Gates Foundation, the Wonder Woman franchise.

She is also somebody who was hit with melanoma, breast tumors, Hashimoto's, and Epstein-Barr all at once.

And instead of just treating it, she did what any great documentarian does.

She investigated it.

She funded her own research of a thousand women, the first ever study on the relationship between empowerment and autoimmune conditions.

And what she found was absolutely groundbreaking.

Women who are taught to self-silence, to caretake, to put others before themselves, are disproportionately likely to develop autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto's and lupus and MS and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and more.

Her study was endorsed by a former U.S.

Surgeon General, and it's an absolute paradigm shift in how we think about autoimmune conditions.

Sarah has since completely healed.

She did it in a pretty unconventional way.

We're going to talk about exactly what she did today.

I am so excited for you guys to hear this episode because it's really the beginning of what I think is going to be a revolution in how we think about and treat these things.

This is an episode that you are going to want to send to every single woman in your life, and especially the oldest daughters.

You're going to find out more about why in a second.

Sarah Hirsch Bordeaux, welcome to the podcast.