3 OCT
Vision Stage
Dr. Ingrid Yang
Dr. Ingrid Yang is a physician, yoga teacher, and longevity expert who merges modern medicine with ancient healing traditions. Board-certified in internal medicine, she specializes in rigorously researched integrative and lifestyle approaches to healthspan optimization, drawing on over two decades of experience in clinical practice, holistic therapies, and mindfulness. Dr. Yang is the author of several acclaimed books on yoga and meditation, and she leads sold-out wellness retreats around the world, from Turkey to Japan. A former attorney, now practicing physician, she brings a unique perspective to the intersection of science, lifestyle, and longevity. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Business Insider, and Outside Magazine, and she serves as a consulting physician for RoseBar Longevity Clinic. With equal parts rigor and heart, Dr. Yang empowers people to reimagine aging – not as decline, but as opportunity for renewal and growth.
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From periods to longevity: what every woman should know about her body
3 OCT · Vision Stage · 14:05
For decades, women have been taught to normalize feeling bad. Painful periods, exhaustion, mood changes, poor sleep or brain fog are too often dismissed as “just being a woman” or “just hormones.”
But what should we actually expect from our bodies — and what should we understand before something feels wrong?
Women’s health is often discussed in chapters: periods, fertility, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause. But our biology doesn’t reset between each phase. What happens earlier in life can shape how we feel and age decades later.
This conversation explores female health across a lifetime — how to better understand the signals our bodies give us, when to look beyond an individual symptom, and what we shouldn’t simply accept as part of being a woman.
Because understanding female health means looking at the whole picture: our biology, our life stage and the lives we actually live.
And what changes if we start doing that earlier? Could understanding our bodies better today help us make more informed choices — and ultimately change how we experience the decades ahead?
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Blue Zones
3 OCT · Impact Stage · 16:25