4.4 Robyn Puglia - The Prevalence of Autoimmunity in Women

This week, I’m joined by Robyn Puglia and I’m sure for the majority of you Robyn needs little introduction - Robyn is a Clinical Nutritionist and IFM Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with a specialism in autoimmunity. We of course delve into autoimmunity and why in particular it impacts millions of women, why it appears to be on the rise, affecting 20% of the population and the underlying factors - our triad of: genetic predisposition, immune system dysregulation and environmental triggers. It’s no surprise that Robyn is a published author - listening to her mix of passion, and incredible knowledge is absolutely captivating. Robyn generously talks us through her fabulous concept of immunological lasagne and shares her thoughts on gender bias in autoimmunity medical research and continued misogyny in women’s health care. Robyn also fabulously naturally weaves in references to one of my all time favourite films - Love Actually and calls out the pioneers or “Taylor Swift’s” in women who are standing up, shouting out and leading the charge for better proactive healthcare for women. AND calls out the podcast as a love letter to those who are striving for answers or those championing for a better way to help women with their health 💌  Robyn is running a practitioner mentoring programme, commencing  in January 2024 - head over to her website to find out all  the details.  This is a really powerful episode - if you’re a practitioner and in need of an inspiring pick me up, you need to listen to this. As always, take a listen and drop me a comment to let me know if you enjoyed the episode as much as I did recording it.