Running, Pap Smears, Menstrual Release, and More Weekend Links
Running and your period. According to the 'menstrual release' web site, "menstrual release is a technique that allows you to relieve yourself of menses in a way that's similar to emptying your bladder or your bowels – out of awareness to your body and its basic...
When Can We Write the Obituary for the Critical Timing Hypothesis?
What Happened? The highlight of last week’s meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) meeting was a presentation of the primary results of the KEEPS study (Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study). A press release describing the findings, along with a list...
Applauding the “Second Talk”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_342ktJBQ In an effort to continue positive conversations about menopause, this blog entry is about Poise’s new “2nd talk” campaign. I was watching TV the other night and an advertisement for Poise’s menstrual pad came on. For once, I...
Mortification Wars
Recently menstrual shame made the front page of the New York Times in paragraph one of an article titled, "For Women in Street Stops, Deeper Humiliation." The piece reported on an ongoing debate about the "stop and frisk" policies of the police who, seemingly at...
Lady Parts Justice, Sexing Up Breast Cancer, Yoga for Periods, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/AbdTMK66tq4 Comic and political satirist Lizz Winstead started Lady Parts Justice this week,a “place where we create messaging that dares to speak the language of truth, without giving a rat’s ass about how it will be judged by the self-righteous.”...
Could use of the pill be linked to insulin resistance?
The pill is one of the most intensely studied drugs in history, and believed to be among the safest – safer than aspirin, as an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted twenty years ago. Yet young women seem to be quitting in droves, for a variety of...
