This episode is everything I’m obsessed with: women empowering women, talking about vaginas, and creating change in the world! It’s time to show us the data and start including women of reproductive age in clinical studies because…WOMEN ARE NOT SMALL MEN!

In this episode…

• What IS the vaginal microbiome and why it’s time to pay attention!
• The Brain Vagina connection

• I Struggled With Recurrent Vaginal Infections For Years, Then I Learned I Was Misdiagnosed Written by Evvy Co-Dounfer Laine Bruzek
• Knowing our body and what is our normal is crucial for self advocacy
• We are lacking necessary data to provide women comprehensive care from vaginal infections to heart disease

Priyanka is the co-founder & CEO of Evvy, where her mission is to close the gender health gap, starting by decoding the vaginal microbiome. Before founding Evvy, Priyanka was Head of Product at pymetrics, a startup using behavioral science and AI to make talent matching more effective and fair. She is also a spokesperson for the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign and on the Innovation Board for the XPRIZE Foundation. She received her B.S. from Stanford University, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and President of Stanford Women in Business. Learn more at www.evvy.com and On IG @evvy and tiktok @evvybio

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