Gabby joined Rootless as their Chief of Staff (and Dr. Gabby!) after spending her career at the intersection of food innovation, plant-based medicine, community building, and women's health. She is excited about the potential to change the narrative of food as medicine not only for us, but also our planet. Based on her personal experience, it can be extremely difficult to navigate hormones and find balance, and her Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine has helped Gabby understand this concept more clearly. After being put on hormonal birth control at an extremely young age due to horribly painful cramps and fainting during that time of the month, she spent most of her life covering the symptoms instead of treating the root cause. The few times she came off of the hormones, she experienced extreme mood swings with crippling fatigue and was recommended to try antidepressants by her doctors. Through lifestyle and dietary changes as well as TCM and eating seaweed daily, she is finally finding balance and she is on a mission to help all women do the same as they age.