The New Rules of Women's Health with Meghan Rabbitt: Changing the Game

SPECIAL EPISODE 1 — When you pick up The New Rules of Women's Health, you immediately realize it isn't a book you read cover-to-cover in one sitting—it’s a 700-page comprehensive encyclopaedia for your entire life. In this special bonus episode of Priya's Picks, host Priya Bathija sits down with veteran health journalist and author Meghan Rabbitt to break down how to move past outdated "bikini medicine" (focusing solely on breast and reproductive organs) to embrace whole-body health. Meghan shares how a push from Maria Shriver led to three years of interviewing over 100 top female medical experts, why asking your doctor for a second appointment is a power move, and how to "Google like a health journalist" to spot misinformation on social media.

In this episode, we walk you through these key topics:

• Beyond "Bikini Medicine": Women's health is more than reproductive and maternal health, it includes brain, heart, gut, bone health, and more!
• The "Coffee Table" Reference Guide: How to use a 700-page health book as an on-demand reference before annual exams, mammograms, or new diagnosis visits.
• The "Gold Star" Patient: Why women tend to brush off symptoms (like fibroids or heavy bleeding) to appear "healthy," and how to stop minimizing your lived experience.
• Google Like a Doctor (or Health Journalist): Use lateral reading, a research strategy to vet sources, corroborate claims, and spot red flags on Google, TikTok, or Instagram.
• AI & Health Data Privacy: The real risks of feeding personal symptoms into AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, how large language models retain historical health biases, and how to use AI to translate dense app user agreements.
• The "Prioritized List" Audible: How bringing an organized, prioritized list of concerns to your doctor can help set the tone for short appointments.

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