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Kate gets sucked down a rabbit hole of "hormone balancing" content on TikTok, and wonders...this whole time, have her cramps just been due to a hormone imbalance? She talks with Alex Sujong Laughlin (Normal Gossip, Defector) about her experience trying to balance her hormones with info from TikTok, and then gets real answers from Dr. Thara Vayali on hormone function, cortisol, and how our hormones ACTUALLY work.
Transcript & sources: www.katehelendowney.com/episode-5-transcript
Sound Design & Mixing: Kelly Kramarik at Maven Post Media
Associate Producer: Katelyn Sabater
Theme song: Farideh
Podcast art: Nicholas Scheppard
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