09/09/2026
Around three-quarters of the patients I see in my clinic are women.
And when you think about what a woman’s body navigates throughout her lifetime, perhaps that isn’t surprising.
Puberty.
Periods.
Hormonal changes.
Pregnancy and postnatal recovery.
Perimenopause.
Menopause.
Our bodies are constantly adapting, and women’s health can be incredibly complex.
Yet despite women generally living longer than men, we spend more of our lives in poor health.
Endometriosis alone can take around 9 years to diagnose.
And far too many women still tell me they’ve felt dismissed along the way.
“It’s probably stress.”
“It’s your hormones.”
“That’s just part of being a woman.”
“Your tests are normal.”
Meanwhile, they know something doesn’t feel right.
In all my years of treating patients, one of the biggest compliments I receive isn’t about acupuncture.
It’s simply:
“Thank you for listening to me.”
That sentence has stayed with me.
Because being heard shouldn’t feel like exceptional healthcare. It should be the starting point.
Women deserve the time to tell their whole story.
They deserve questions to be asked.
They deserve their symptoms to be taken seriously.
And they deserve to feel that somebody is genuinely listening.
It’s one of the reasons women’s health has become such an important part of the work I do and why I believe so strongly that we can do better. ❤️
