A personal health history includes multiple diagnoses beginning in childhood and continuing into adulthood, including autoimmune disease. Autoimmune conditions are described as the immune system attacking the body, with many diseases recorded and no single cure. Women receive most autoimmune diagnoses. A pattern is noted among friends who were diagnosed, often being the oldest or only daughter. The idea is that abandoning personal wants and needs for a lifetime can create an immune system in identity crisis. Self-silencing is presented as making people sick, while over-giving is presented as keeping them that way. Empowerment is proposed as a missing modality in women’s health, supported by self-funded efforts.
"I have studied my own health and the health of 1000 autoimmune-diagnosed women and the evidence is clear. Self-silencing is making us sick and over-giving is keeping us that way. Abandoning our own wants and needs for a lifetime can create an immune system in identity crisis. I wanted to prove that empowerment may be the missing modality in women's health, so I funded it myself."
"I shared about how I had been diagnosed with shingles at eight, breast tumors began at 22, an autoimmune condition at 30, and melanoma, active Epstein-Barr, ovarian cysts, heavy metal poisoning, and more between the ages of 42 and 44."
"I shared the CDC definition, essentially, the immunity war the body wages against itself. I shared that there are more than a hundred autoimmune diseases on record, without a single cure for any, with women receiving 80 percent of the diagnoses."
"I told them I had always found it fascinating that the majority of my friends had also been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and that all of them happened to be either the oldest or the only daughter in their family, as I was. I knew I wanted to explore more, but the birth order observation had been just a hunch."
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