She Bled Through Her Wedding Dres...
She Bled Through Her Wedding Dress and Built a Chinese Medicine Empire | Lulu Ge, Founder & CEO of Elix

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Lulu Ge came to this country at four and a half not speaking a word of English, internalized the immigrant instinct to shed everything different about her, and spent her 20s in fashion corporate strategy running a $300M budget at Saks. Hormonal acne, hair falling out, periods so unpredictable she bled through her white French lace wedding dress during cocktail hour at her Tuscan wedding. Park Avenue gynecologists offered the same three things on rotation: pill, patch, ring; antidepressants for the mood swings; opioids for the pain. It was her mom who finally said: you need to give Chinese medicine a try. One blend of herbs from a doctor who read her tongue, three months of boiling them down at home, and her next period arrived without warning. No cramps, no signal, just a body that finally felt like her own. She is now the founder and CEO of Elix ... 

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