Sara Hirsh Bordo

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622 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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The Liz Moody Podcast · New Research: Being A "Good Girl" Is Making You Sick (Really). Here's How + What To Do · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

I had always found it fascinating ever since I was 30 when I was diagnosed for the first time.

All of the women around me who were also diagnosed with an autoimmune were either the eldest or the only daughter in their family.

That was like a delicious echo that I couldn't let go of, but I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I knew that there might be something that I would do with it later.

Between 40 and 42.

I wanted to see if that instinct might be right.

If it held more than just this anecdotal reflection amongst women that I was hanging out with.

So I did a online survey of 300 women with autoimmune and 70% of them were either the eldest or the only daughter in their family.

That's one of the huge echoes that said to me, there is an element to the way that we were raised

psychologically, developmentally, emotionally, that might be a contributing factor to what's going on.

Because the thing to talk about with autoimmune is that across the 140 plus

There isn't a cure for any of them.

The researchers around the world, the scientists around the world, it's a race to think about the contributing factors that are happening.

There have been some studies that have been put out about the double X chromosome, and those are findings that are starting to feel like they might be leading.

But if you said, can you cure it?

The doctors that are diagnosing are going to say, there is no cure, but we can manage it.

And in a world like that, where I'm just a documentary filmmaker holding space for empowerment experiences for women and girls, I know that I'm not a scientist and I know that I'm not a doctor, to be sure.

But I think some of the most powerful shifts of change have been born from the individuals that are living it.

not the individuals that are watching it.

I'm going to be speaking with Gabor Mate in a couple of weeks because he also has done a lot of reflection around the nice people are the ones getting sick.

And he's, God bless him, taken a very generous support of the book.

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