a backlash against stigma
If a hack counts on shame, privacy, or the idea your body is unclean and must be "fixed" fast, it's probably selling you something, also if what it desires is just your attention.
Odd Wellness is organized by Katie Edwards and Dan Baumgardt. The exec producer is Gemma Ware, with video clip and sound editing and enhancing for this episode by Anouk Millet. Art work by Alice Mason.
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In the last episode of the first duration of The Conversation's Uncommon Wellness and health podcast, co-host Dan Baumgardt and I watched the clips, winced a little, laughed a little, after that did what we constantly do: we asked a professional what is actually happening inside the body.
I talked with Sally King, a visiting various other at King's College London and designer of the evidence-based menstruation wellness and health project Menstruation Concerns. Her first point was almost disappointingly simple: you cannot minimize a period by "scooping". Menstruation is the going down of the uterine mobile cellular lining, set off by hormonal agent changes and assisted along by uterine contractions. Once the process is underway, removing fluid from the genital canal does not quit the uterus going down cells. It might make you feel a lot much less "complete" momentarily, but it does not finish your period very very early.
