The Heart of Healthcare

LGBTQIA+ people face worse health outcomes in our country due to a long history of oppression and discrimination. In this episode, Dr. Mitchell Lunn, an openly gay physician and researcher at Stanford in the field of sexual and gender minority populations (SGM), explains what health equity means for SGM people, and what each of us can do to be a better ally.

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In 2008, disillusioned by the medical system, Dr. Lakshmin left her residency to join an extreme wellness commune that turned out to be a cult. She was seeking something outside of mainstream medicine that could help with the anguish she was feeling. She yearned for community, and for something outside of the hierarchical structure of medicine. But what she found was that the industrial wellness complex is just as flawed.

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin is a board certified psychiatrist focusing on women’s mental health, a New York Times contributor, the founder of Gemma, and the author of the new book Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness.

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In a controversial decision, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are entitled to the same legal protections as children. This bombshell ruling has sent shockwaves through the healthcare community. I'll break down the legal arguments, unpack the implications for IVF clinics and families, and discuss the chilling potential impact on reproductive healthcare across the US. With Roe v. Wade overturned and legal "personhood" being granted to embryos, the future of fertility treatments hangs in the balance.

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In this episode, Christine Lemke, co-founder and CEO of Evidation Health, shares how her personal struggles with chronic pain fueled her mission to transform how we measure and improve health outcomes. She shares the company's evolution and innovative approach to generating real-world evidence (RWE) using a global research platform serving millions of people.

We cover:

The power of real-world data and understanding health outside the clinic

Lessons from pivots: Evidation's journey to its current focus

How they recruit diverse participants, prioritize consent, and even compensate individuals

Accelerating research and making it more representative of the populations drugs will actually serve

Where the company's unique data platform goes next, and how it could change healthcare

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In this episode, I talk to my-cofounder Lauren Makler as we debut what we’ve been building for over a year: a destigmatized, scalable approach to egg freezing and donation. Cofertility is a fertility ecosystem that enables women to freeze their eggs *for free* when they donate half of the eggs to a family that otherwise can’t conceive.

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