How can our heritage revolutionize our future?
By giving us options.
— Introducing —
From Root to Seed: Rebuilding Women’s Health with Herbs
A book about women’s health, fertility and the untapped power of plants.
People have long used medicinal plants to shape women’s fertility around the world, and millions still do. Yet today these alternatives are little researched and lesser known. As access to reproductive health care shrinks, emergency departments turn away pregnant women, and maternity care deserts spread across the United States, this ignorance is a growing threat to women. When the health care system we count on fails to offer the care we need, what can we do?
From Root to Seed takes readers around the world in search of an answer. Using science to decode the power of plants, it explores how humanity’s rich traditions of fertility management can—and already do—complement Western medicine and improve women’s health. It taps into my deep cultural and investigative expertise, as an anthropologist, to tackle the urgent issue of how to make women’s reproductive health more accessible, private, personalized, safe and affordable.
The stories it shares illustrate how embracing both medicinal plants and biomedicine can revolutionize our health.
When I first began researching women’s reproductive agency over two decades ago, I had no way of knowing I would one day be a mother of two daughters.
Daughters who may worry if they’ll be safe going to an emergency room.
Daughters who might be denied a say in how many children they have.
Daughters who could be criminally prosecuted for seeking to preserve their own health and happiness.
This is the world we currently inhabit. But it’s not our only option.
Stay tuned for updates, sneak-peaks and excerpts!
And while you’re waiting…
Read some of the stories I’m researching on my Substack, Rooted Resolve, for free!