Why Women’s Health Fell Behind and How Precision Medicine and AI Can Fix It — Piraye Beim

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why women’s health is decades behind other fields of medicine, and why that gap still exists

- How food, health, and biology have been systematically under-researched for women

- The economic and scientific blind spots that have shaped modern healthcare

- How precision medicine transformed cancer care, and why women’s health was left out

- The role of genomics, multi-omics, and AI in unlocking new treatments for women

- Why conditions like endometriosis and menopause remain underfunded and poorly understood

- The challenges of building deep science companies in women’s health

- How AI is accelerating drug discovery and making breakthroughs possible at smaller scales

- The vision behind extending ovarian function and rethinking reproductive health

- Why women’s health is ultimately human health and a catalyst for long-term flourishing

- Piraye’s beautiful spiritual awakening

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About Piraye Beim:

Piraye Beim is the Founder and CEO of Celmatix and a leading innovator in precision medicine for women’s health. For more than two decades, she has advanced understanding of ovarian health and reproductive aging by translating genomics and multi-omics research into first-in-class therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health tools. Her work has been recognized by Fortune, Goldman Sachs, Crain’s, Rock Health, and the Aspen Global Leadership Network for its impact on biotechnology and women’s health.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:42 Episode opening

11:53 Why female healthcare is so underlooked

12:09 Women’s biology is cyclical: hormones rising and falling

14:27 Women weren’t mandated to be in clinical trials until the 1990s

14:59 Choosing to dedicate a career to women’s drug development

17:46 Endometriosis and the 10-year delay to diagnosis

19:05 Women’s health is human health

21:00 Precision medicine through a women’s health lens

24:03 Why modern drug discovery skipped women’s health

25:44 Screening, diagnosis, and better clinical trials

27:00 Conditions unique to women: menopause, infertility, endometriosis

28:55 Women’s health receives less than 1% of venture funding

30:58 Why developing drugs for women predates the VC industry

32:22 Extending ovarian function and rethinking IVF

41:48 Building an “ark” to preserve women’s health data

45:59 Artificial intelligence changing what’s possible in medicine

52:40 Regulation, evidence, and earning trust in healthcare

01:03:10 What success looks like for women’s health innovation

01:23:10 Beyond science: don’t explain, just feel

01:28:16 Piraye shares what it was like before and after her spiritual awakening

01:41:20 Closing reflections

Books mentioned in this episode:

- After the Ecstasy, the Laundry — Jack Kornfield

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

- How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan

- Lights On — Annaka Harris

- Signs — Laura Lynne Jackson

- The Fourth Age — Byron Reese

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

- Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright