2017-02-06
1 小时 19 分钟So.
So's stands for survival overdrive syndrome.
And it was just sort of an accidental term.
It's not a real medical term, but as I had so many women in my practice sitting across from me, or women emailing me and writing to me on Facebook, I kept hearing this theme, and it was actually a theme of repeated words.
Doctor Rahm.
Doctor Aviva.
Aviva.
I feel like I'm chronically stuck in survival mode.
I feel like I'm always in the on position.
I feel like I'm always just trying to keep up.
You know, I'm like just trying to stay afloat.
And it was this sense of really, truly like life, survival, being on the line, not in terms of necessarily having enough food, but feeling that the stress response in them was so overactivated and they couldn't keep up.
So what if, you know, all those symptoms that you've kind of been feeling over the years wasn't just all in your head?
What if, you know, passing moments of low energy, what if moments of pain, joint pain, inflammation?
What if moments of fatigue, stress, anxiety, overwhelm, moments of your brain just kind of feeling like it's a little foggy and not quite clear?
What if those weren't just in your head?
What if those weren't things you just had to live with?
What if those weren't things that you could just take a pill to make go away, which very often really doesn't make it go away, just pushes it down the road and makes it worse?
What if there was a different story and a different way to look at this, to explore how to make some changes that profoundly changed not just the symptomology, but the deeper root causes and the way that you lived your life and really filled your vitality bucket in a lasting, consistent way?
That's the conversation I'm having in today's episode with my dear friend, doctor Aviva Ram, who is a Yale trained integrative medicine and women's health physician.