Dr. Sara Szal, a Harvard and MIT-trained physician, sits down to unpack why women bear the brunt of autoimmune conditions at rates that keep climbing. She introduces the three-legged stool concept that's required for autoimmune disease to take hold, then breaks down why 95% of her patients show cortisol dysregulation long before they're ever diagnosed with anything. What makes this conversation powerful is that Dr. Szal doesn't just study this academically, she's lived it, going through prophylactic mastectomies and converting her own positive anti-nuclear antibody back to normal through targeted interventions. This is a masterclass in understanding the drift from health to disease and exactly what you can do about it before the soldiers come for you.

Learn more about Dr. Sara Szal: https://www.saraszalmd.com/

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IN THIS EPISODE WE’LL:

Discover why your immune system's passport control goes haywire and how sex hormones, mitochondria, and social conditioning create the perfect storm for women to lose tolerance to their own cells

Break through the conventional medicine blind spot that only recognizes Addison's or Cushing's while missing the 95% of people whose cortisol patterns are completely dysregulated

Transform your understanding of triggers from breast implants to trauma to infections and learn which ones you can actually control (hint: two out of three legs on that stool)

Expose the 29% bacterial contamination rate in explant specimens and how biofilms interact with breast tissue to create the downstream inflammatory cascade that mimics classic autoimmune disease

Learn the exact protocol Dr. Szal used to convert her positive autoimmune marker to normal, including internal family systems therapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and gut healing strategies you can start today

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