00:00Your symptoms are information.
00:02They're not something to be suppressed, to be gotten rid of, to treat as the enemy.
00:09Symptoms in your body are information.
00:10They are your alarm system from your body telling you something.
00:14And I think as women, we get really used to overriding ourselves, our own emotions, our feelings, our symptoms, telling
00:20ourselves that if you are chronically bloated and you can't poop and you have horrible migraines and you can't sleep
00:26and your parents are super uncomfortable
00:28or they're all over the place or your libido is changing or you're feeling hot when you shouldn't be hot,
00:33whatever it is, listen to that.
00:36That is meaningful, valuable, wonderful information.
00:40More than even labs, symptoms matter.
00:43But to make use of symptoms, we have to listen to ourselves and then we have to ask our medical
00:49community to listen to us.
