Hormone

She was always there at the bus to pick him up.

And as far as anyone could tell, at least from the outside, the Hormons seemed to be this picture of kind of suburban bliss, at least until the morning of June 4th, 2010.

So let's go back to where we are in the story.

A 911 call goes out and that sets off a really massive response from multiple agencies.

Well, har- hardly any plant is gonna resist the rooting hormone, and a lot of things really, it makes a big difference in, in getting it going.

Um, I've, I've had the joy of writing a blog for those folks at one point, and I'm always amazed at the experiences that people have.

Um, people don't necessarily intend to do research, but in, in their greenhouse, you know, somebody put h- put cuttings out and rolled that group in the, the, the Hormodin, and then the n- the next person that came in to help didn't know to do that.

So six weeks later, the owner looks over and one bench looks pretty good, the other bench looks very sad, [laughs] and you can see the difference between providing what the plant needed, you know? Um, those kind of graphic things don't always happen, but I know you've seen them.

Yes.

One is this Netflix stand-up comedy special by Sumukhi Suresh.

It's called Hormonal.

So it's about a woman in her 30s navigating the dating situation, body shaming, relationship with mother, etc.

Sometimes it feels like a personal attack, but it's fun.

So I think the desire for someone who was maybe grounded in science was big.

And so By my final year of university, I had two book deals and I was just like, wow, this is huge.

Alongside working as a doctor, I then did my master's in nutrition and worked as a nutrition doctor for a little while, which was interesting, but it was a lot more clinical in terms of like working with patients, oncology, patients going through surgery who required parental nutrition.

And then COVID happened and that was everything really.

So I was unable to escape it.

Even when the pandemic was kind of ending, I was still within it.

And it was actually during COVID that I wrote my first women's health book, The Female Factor, because I had the plans to do it.

And I think I was living alone.