Sara Jane Ho
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And so, you know, and so two years ago when I was hanging out with my now co-founder for my, for anti-water, my intimate wellness business, when we're hanging out and we were thinking, you know, we want to do something that we're really passionate about and that can, can, that, you know, can bring the best of Chinese culture and traditional Chinese medicine, which actually is her family business.
So she's Taiwanese and Her grandpa founded his first traditional Chinese medicine TCM clinic in Taiwan in the 1940s. It's operating to this day by her cousins. So it was passed down because it's her maternal grandmother and Taiwan's very patriarchal. So it was passed down to the son and the son's son. And so she grew up with this in her family business.
She went to UChicago, so she's very Americanized like me. And then she moved to Shanghai and she worked for some very exquisite luxury women's wear brands where she was CEO. So she was CEO of Stella McCartney for Asia Pacific for five years, managing hundreds of people. Wow, these are Stella McCartney. I know, I actually noticed that. And then she was CEO of Asia Pacific for Diesel Jeans as well.
And when we were meeting up, actually even before that, she was GM of Shanghai Tang, which is gorgeous, exquisite Chinese brand. It was under Richemont, Shanghai Tang.
Yes. Yeah. So that was where she began early days. And then we were sitting down and we've always exchanged TCM wellness tips. And she was like, you know, I'm so bored at my job. I'm not learning anything new. I don't feel like I'm doing something that's meaningful to me. I really care about life sciences. She got a PhD in neuroscience, by the way. She sounds like a real loser this week.
And she's 5'11". Oh, God. What's her name? Annie. Annie Ho. Oh, my God. Okay. So me going to my sort of etiquette makeover mode, I was like, well, if you don't like your life, then do something. Then change your career. Do something that's meaningful to you. And she's like, yeah, that's a good idea. What do you think I should do?
And then as we were thinking about this, like what we both loved, what we were passionate about, what we grew up with, we grew up with herbal remedies because of her family business, me, because in Hong Kong, you know, I grew up with acupuncture, herbal soups, all these things because my parents were really into it. Right.
And, and, you know, and, and then, and then she, and we were, we realized that like in TCM, a woman's health begins in her ovaries. So your female reproductive health system, it like, that's like, that is the most important thing. And if that's good, then the rest of your body is good, basically.
Very different. Yeah. And, you know, in the East, it's about prevention. So Eastern medicine is about prevention. Western medicine is about treatment. It's about that quick fix, instantaneous, which I think is a fundamental problem in how we approach health in the West. And I've grown up with both and I use both. So, for example, you know, two months ago I did the prenuvo scan and it was amazing.
But I also get my weekly acupuncture and cupping and all that stuff as well. Right, right, right. Even when I'm traveling. You said that.
Yeah, and it helps me stay regular on my menstrual cycle because- The acupuncture does. Acupuncture does. It's the only thing that, and in fact, this morning I met a, I was at a beauty store and the girl behind the counter was also telling me she does acupuncture every week because it's the only thing that, and she's white, never been to China.
And she was saying it's the only thing that keeps her regular. And a Georgetown girlfriend of mine who I saw in New York, she said when she was 34, she stopped her, she didn't have her period for a year. She decided to go see an acupuncturist. It came the next day. The next day, the next day. So I mean, like it's now acupuncture for women trying to conceive fertility.
It is like one of it's like the number one thing every woman in America is doing now in Europe for fertility. Right. So, I mean, also they say NAD is very helpful. Do you know what NAD is? It's like that Western chemical.
Interesting.
So the top three things that Americans go to acupuncture for are mental health. So whether it's sleep or migraines or just anxiety, you put the needles in the head and you will sleep like a baby. Needles in the head that night will make me sleep so well. Really? The second thing Americans go to acupuncture for is digestion, so digestive issues.
Honestly, all that ice, drinking cold things is not good for your digestive system. That's why I brought my flask of hot water. Even Europeans do not drink stuff with ice.
If you want to go to the bathroom and do number two in the morning, the first thing you should do is drink a big glass of hot water.
Yeah, that's, that's good too. Ginger has warming properties. It's particularly good for women. And it's also just good to get your energy going. How much ginger are you putting in there? I put three slices. Three thick slices is fine. You can adjust as much as you want. The only thing is don't take ginger at night because it will affect your sleep. Because ginger actually helps with circulation.
So particularly for people who get cold easily, who have cold hands, cold feet, Or in the wintertime, like the first thing in the morning, you have ginger. And you can have it up to maybe like afternoon. But in the evening, don't have too much ginger. It'll affect your sleep because it gets your metabolism going, right? Does it? Yes, ginger does. That's how it warms you up.
So this is, I mean, you're not even an acupuncturist or a doctor. This is like the most basic thing that all Chinese people know about. about, about foods. TCM, there's a diet therapy and you know, each food, whether it's cooling or warming and what exactly what it does to your body.
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