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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh,

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Speaker 1: and there's Chuck and Jerry's here with us UM for oversight,

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Speaker 1: and this is stuff you should know. Just a couple

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Speaker 1: of dudes tucking menstruation. That's right, and it sounds totally

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Speaker 1: normal when you say it like that. It sounded like

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Speaker 1: the making copies guy. You signed it to me like

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Speaker 1: Troy McClure. Yeah, you're right, I am. I'm definitely more

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Speaker 1: right than you were. That's right, that's exactly right. That

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Speaker 1: was dead on. Actually you weren't even trying. Oh I

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Speaker 1: used to do Troy McClure back in the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was one of my bits. Well you still got it, buddy. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I think long time listeners will

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Speaker 1: have picked up Chuck that we're stalling right now. Um.

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Speaker 1: New listeners might be like, what are these guys doing

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Speaker 1: and talking about? I'm never listening to them again, But

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Speaker 1: hang on, wait, just chill out. We do this sometimes,

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Speaker 1: especially when we're taking on a topic that we're um

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Speaker 1: only equipped to understand as researchers. Yes, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a good way to put it. We are researchers. That's

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Speaker 1: what we do. And anybody who researches something, um well

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Speaker 1: and with an open mind, I think is perfectly legitimate,

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Speaker 1: in a perfectly legitimate position to talk about whatever it

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Speaker 1: is carving out our territs right here, I guess so

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, but we're talking menstruation today. We are. And

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Speaker 1: another bit of just upfront knowledge that we want to

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Speaker 1: drop is, uh, we're gonna use different terms. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: say girls, we're gonna say women. We're gonna say people

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Speaker 1: who men straight because we don't want to overlook the

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Speaker 1: trans community. And even though you know most websites you

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Speaker 1: go to, we'll still say girls and women. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: just sort of interchange words here and there to cover

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Speaker 1: all our bases and to be respectful of of everybody. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Another one will be men's straight towards we should just

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Speaker 1: say menstruators period. Didn't even mean that, wow, chuck, so

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Speaker 1: um yeah, I think that was really good to say.

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Speaker 1: And it's not like, you know, I'm sure we'll fall

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Speaker 1: into women girls, um pretty frequently. Uh. And that's not

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Speaker 1: to say that we are um judge or critical of

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Speaker 1: the concept of men menstruating UM, it's just that it's

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Speaker 1: it's a fairly new concept to us and we're still, um,

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Speaker 1: we're still getting used to it. So please please accept

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Speaker 1: our apologies in advance if if we do that. And

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Speaker 1: also for our younger listeners, especially are the young girls

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Speaker 1: who listened to our show. You know, in addition to

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Speaker 1: our Puberty Female Puberty podcast, we did, we did male

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Speaker 1: Puberty two. Right, we did both. Yeah, we did both. Um,

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Speaker 1: this is something that you know, I think is a

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Speaker 1: lot of anxiety comes with Uh, We'll go ahead and

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Speaker 1: say the word monarchy, which is the first period, the

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Speaker 1: first menstruation cycle that someone can undergo. We I've used

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Speaker 1: that before. It's one of our favorite words from the

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Speaker 1: early days of the show, from I think the Totem

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Speaker 1: Pull episode. I think so because the Native Americans celebrate

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Speaker 1: the monarchy in the right monarchy, that's right. But especially

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Speaker 1: to those listeners, we just want you to know that, uh,

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Speaker 1: we hope that you embrace this as a the wonder

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Speaker 1: amazing thing that happens, and uh, knowing more about it,

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Speaker 1: I think it's just powerful for little boys, little girls

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Speaker 1: across the gender spectrum. And men and grown men and

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Speaker 1: think we're dying off slowly, but surely we're being replaced

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Speaker 1: by way cooler, smarter with it um people. So that's cool.

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Speaker 1: It'll go away eventually. But what we're talking about is menstruation,

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Speaker 1: menstruation is occasional. Um. There are all sorts of reason

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Speaker 1: And what is simply happening, which is amazing, is that

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Speaker 1: starts generally without monarchy anywhere from twelve to thirteen. It

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Speaker 1: men's stright in the first place. Why would a human

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Speaker 1: mammals actually men's strate. There's plenty of other adaptations for

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Speaker 1: the animal kingdom. Humans are one of just a handful

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Speaker 1: of bright, shiny um people. Yeah, they have companions in

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Speaker 1: all men straight. Um. But most mammals undergo something called

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Speaker 1: let's go through it. Yeah, And the really interesting thing

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Speaker 1: really sure why no, But there's theories. One of the

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back after this with details on menstruation. Chuck.

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Speaker 1: No one can see me right now, but I'm holding

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Speaker 1: got this, We did. We shouldn't get nervous about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: of like like you'd make of a statue. All right,

424
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's it in a nutshell, right, yeah.

425
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: I would say even more than a nutshell, Like that's

426
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: several nutshells worth, uh acorn squash shell. I yeah, I

427
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,959
Speaker 1: think that's good. But we should say that you wouldn't

428
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: need an acorn squash shell to hold all of the

429
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 1: blood that comes out, because typically when you go through

430
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: the menstrual phase of the menstruation phase of the menstrual cycle,

431
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: what you call your period, usually it's only results in

432
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: about five or six tablespoons of blood over the course

433
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: of like five to seven days, that's right. But it

434
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: can come in inconvenient times, people can be caught off guard. Uh,

435
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about all that stuff, but um, first

436
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: let's get into some of the disorders and problems that

437
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: can happen with the menstrual cycle, because it can be

438
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: a very finicky thing. Um. If if you are someone

439
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: who has just a super regular, very um, you know,

440
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: straightforward menstrual cycle, then you should count yourself lucky. Because

441
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: it can go in all sorts of different ways. Uh.

442
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: There's one way you can go called dysmenorrhea, and these

443
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: are cramps. Basically that there changes to the uterus that

444
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: can cause these muscle contractions, and that cramping is very

445
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: normal and I think most people who menstrate have some

446
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: amount of cramping generally, but it can get really severe

447
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: and also, uh, as with other things, very disabling and disruptive. Right.

448
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: There's also um a man a rhea, which is where

449
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: you just don't menstrate when you should be menstruating, at

450
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: least biologically speaking. Right. So they say that there's two kinds.

451
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: Primary man arhea is after a girl who has turned

452
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: age five teen still hasn't had her first period, that's

453
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: primary a manorrhea. And then um, a woman who has

454
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: had periods regularly before and then all of a sudden

455
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: misses three of them. And we should say, who is

456
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: also not pregnant at the time. UM, that would be

457
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: secondary men a man aihea, and both of them are

458
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: nothing necessarily to be super scared about or anything, but

459
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: they're probably something you would want to go talk to

460
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: your guynecologist about. UM. One other thing, well, a bunch

461
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: of other things that can cause a man aihea to UM.

462
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: Like I said, UM, elite athletes get it from too

463
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: much exercise and not enough body fat. You can be

464
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: malnourished for whatever reason, or maybe have an eating disorder

465
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: that causes you malnourishment. Stress can do it. UM. Your

466
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: doctor might say, I think you're sniffing too much cocaine.

467
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: That can definitely bring on a manorrhea. UM. There's a

468
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: lot of lifestyle changes that you can make that are

469
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: probably fairly easy. UM. That would that would bring your

470
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: period back in if you want that kind of thing, right, Uh,

471
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it. But birth control pills are

472
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: sometimes people get on birth control pills to regulate their

473
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: period and it really has less to do with getting

474
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: pregnant or not. Yeah, So what else is there menorasia minoragia.

475
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: I heard, and you know, I've looked it up. But again,

476
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: with these pronunciations sometimes that you'll get three different ones,

477
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: so it's kind of frustrating. But I saw or heard

478
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: rather uh miner agia. Okay, you're gonna go with minora gia. Well,

479
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: this is essentially heavy flow, right, yes, And again usually

480
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: you're looking at what three to five table spoons of

481
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: blood that comes out again over the course of five

482
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: to seven days on average. That is that is not

483
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: There plenty of people who men straight out there who

484
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: are like, um, yeah, like quadruple that or whatever. Um.

485
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: There are there are people who have heavy bleeding um

486
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: and either it's they bleed for longer, like beyond seven

487
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: days is considered menorasia um or. If you apparently soak

488
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: five sanitary products a day, or you soak more two

489
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: or more in two hours, you definitely have minorasia. And

490
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: the two or more in two hours actually means you

491
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: want to go to the emergency room because you're losing blood.

492
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: Don't forget. And there's all sorts of things that can

493
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: happen when you're um blood levels drop like um iron

494
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: deficiencies like anemia, um, all sorts of terrible stuff. So

495
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: you want to go to the e er. If you're

496
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: bleeding that often or that much, Yeah, you're probably passing

497
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: more clots as well, and you're probably also going to

498
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: be having much more severe cramps if you're undergoing menorasia.

499
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: Sounds no fun. It does sound no fun. And I

500
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,479
Speaker 1: guess we should talk about dealing with periods. I mean,

501
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: that's all part of it, right, Or should we take

502
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: a break and do that? Yeah, I say we take

503
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: a break. Can we come back? Um? Uh? All fists

504
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: and elbows talking about dealing with periods. All right, let's

505
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: do it all right? Uh. We talked a little bit

506
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: and talked a little bit about in the beginning about

507
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: just getting past monarchy can be very anxiety inducing. Getting

508
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: into the world of menstruation for someone at the age

509
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: of thirteen or so can be very anxiety inducing. Um.

510
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: But it's again, it's a wonder of nature. It's not unusual,

511
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: it's not gross, it's not weird. Uh. Um. At the

512
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: same time, it is blood coming out of your body.

513
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: So it's something that uh, you want to you know,

514
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: take care of. You don't want to. I read that, God,

515
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember the statistic of the amount of ruined

516
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: underwear that a person goes through in their lifetime of

517
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: menstruation and just the simple cost of that. So if

518
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: for no other reason than that, uh, and you know,

519
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: health and sanitation, it's something that you're gonna want to

520
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: take care of with what's called a sanitary product. Yeah,

521
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: And from what I can tell, the desire and the

522
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: drive to use sanitary products UM is almost innate to

523
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: where it's, like you said, there's nothing to be ashamed of,

524
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you will want to use

525
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: the sanitary products so much so that I've seen it

526
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: described as a human right. Access to sanitary products for

527
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: menstruation is considered a human right. Everyone should have it

528
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: because if you don't have access to them, it can

529
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: induce so many hits to your well being, like anxiety, UM,

530
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: hits to your social life, like you might stay home

531
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: from work, you just you you just don't want to

532
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: leave your house or interact with people. You just don't

533
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: feel comfortable doing that because you have no protection between

534
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: your period and the rest of the world, which is

535
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: one of the big points, one of the main points

536
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 1: of sanitary products in the first place. Yeah, I mean,

537
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: it's an evolutionary thing. If you see your body bleeding,

538
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: you either want to stop the bleeding or if you can't,

539
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: you are going to be wiping it off your arm

540
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: or your leg or wherever it's coming out, right exactly,

541
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: and nobody wants that, and most of all the person

542
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: who's menstruating. That's right. There are many different ways to

543
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: deal with this. I think most people, um sort of

544
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: probably experiment around until they find something they like or

545
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: can at least tolerate. Um. I think the word like

546
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: it is probably not the right word to use there.

547
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think so. I mean, there's definitely

548
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: like a fit to it, you know, I think that

549
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: they can you can feel reassured by it. Maybe, yeah,

550
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely in that kind of way. But I

551
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: don't think any of them or any kind of picnic

552
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: to deal with, Okay, you know what I'm saying. So

553
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: the one that you tolerate best, in that you deal

554
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: with the best, I think, is probably what you're going

555
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: to end up going with after you kind of try

556
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: different things out. Um. One of them is a menstrual cloth.

557
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: This is sort of the non disposable diaper of the

558
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: sanitary product world in that it is fabric that is

559
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: washed and rewashed and re used again. Um, you're probably

560
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: not gonna see this use very often in you know,

561
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: developed nations. It's mainly in places that are poverty stricken

562
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: or in an emergency, or if there's like a refugee

563
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: crisis going on. Right. Um, If you take that menstrual

564
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: cloth and you add wings to it, um, so that

565
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: it stays fast into the underwear, what you have is

566
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: a reusable pad basically, And with both of them, you

567
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: can actually remove them after they become saturated, wash them

568
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: out really really well, and then reuse them so they're reusable.

569
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: And as because they were usable, reusable pads in particular,

570
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: starting to see an upticking use in countries like the

571
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: United States because environmentally speaking, their way preferable to things

572
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: like disposable pads and tampons. You also have the disposable

573
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: pad and the tampon. These are the two, um, I

574
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,439
Speaker 1: think the two still to the two most common used

575
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: in the US. A pad is gonna, you know, have

576
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: some absorbent material, there's gonna be some plastics in there,

577
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: there will be an adhesive to hold it in place

578
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: in the underwear. These like I said, are disposable. Um.

579
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: Along with the tampon, which is a cylinder, it's also absorbent.

580
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: This is inserted into the vagina and is gonna soak

581
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: up that menstrual blood on the insite before it actually

582
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: leaves the body. UM And again obviously disposable. And we'll

583
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: talk about toxic chuck syndro them in one second. But

584
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: I did a little calculating, uh, or actually I went

585
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: to websites that did the calculating formula because we could

586
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: get it wrong. And I was just wondering about costs,

587
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: like we we hear about the the pink tax. Isn't

588
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: that what it's called? Which is just sort of the

589
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: amount of money that uh, that women pay over their

590
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: lifetime and for stuff like this and other things that

591
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: men don't have to pay for. Uh. And I think

592
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: that they said for tampons, you're looking at close to

593
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars for a lifetime, pads about forty seven

594
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: hundred dollars dollars for a lifetime. UM, Far and away,

595
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: the the the best deal going is the minstrel cup.

596
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: This is a sort of like a bell shaped cup

597
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: that's flexible. It's usually like silicone and this is reusable.

598
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: It's it's washed through and I think you're supposed to

599
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: boil it like once a month. That's about You're still

600
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: not going to use that one for your whole life,

601
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: but they say about eighty bucks maybe over your life.

602
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: And there are also minstrel discs, and the difference between

603
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: a menstrel disc and I think that they're newer than

604
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 1: minstrel cups if I'm not mistaken. But a cup sits

605
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: in the vagina below the cervix UH and extends into

606
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: the canal um. It depends on the brand, of course,

607
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: but the disc UH fits back into the vaginal fornix,

608
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: which is where your cervical canal meets your cervix. Thank

609
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: you healthline dot com for that direct quote. Very nice.

610
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: Menstrel cups they're usually made of like silicone, and yeah,

611
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: you can. I saw that you use them for about

612
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: two years before you need to get another one. They're

613
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: also considered fairly green, especially considered compared to pads and tampons,

614
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: But like you said, pads and tampons remain far and

615
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: away the most popular sanitary products in the United States,

616
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: so much so Chuck that in the same paragraph, I

617
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: saw that six of Americans use pads while for use tampons,

618
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: which means that there's a hundred and four percent Americans

619
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: out there who men straight. In the same paragraph this

620
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't from like two different sources either. The other

621
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: thing I did want to mention if Alan was interesting,

622
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: is we didn't get into too much history here, but

623
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: apparently in ancient Rome they use wool uh in Africa

624
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: they rolled up grasses sort of like a tampon, and

625
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: they used home about Hawaii ferns and then beautiful in

626
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: a way, I think, so, yeah, it sounds like I

627
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: would hope it's like very pleasant and not like not pleasant.

628
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, ferns I saw that. I wouldn't think they

629
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: be very absorbent, but I guess I don't know. I

630
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: guess it's better than nothing. Who knows. Um. There's also

631
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: hormonal birth control or the birth control pill, which we

632
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: did an entire episode on a while back, and you

633
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: can actually prevent menstruation on birth control pills. UH if

634
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: you don't do don't eat the sugar pills or placebo

635
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: pills that fill up the week at the end of

636
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: the pill pack. If you just jump right into your

637
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: next birth control pill immediately you want mens stright. And

638
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: the reason why is because those hormonal pills keep your

639
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: estrogen levels nice and even so there's no spike, and

640
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: if there's no spike and estrogen levels, there's no um.

641
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: There's no signal to trigger the follicular phase or the

642
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: luteal phase, because both of those phases, which are really

643
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: important in dropping an egg um are are triggered by estrogen.

644
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: So if there's no estrogen spike, there's no egg that's

645
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: going to come out of the um the follicles. Very interesting. Yeah,

646
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure we talked birth control right, I'm sure we

647
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: had to too. Yeah, but apparently they've they've decided now

648
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: once and for all that it's totally if you're not

649
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: trying to get pregnant, you you could just stay on

650
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: birth control um constantly and never have a period if

651
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: you didn't want to. And from everything that's guynecologists in

652
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: biologists can tell there's not really any ill effects that

653
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: come out of that. It's supposedly safe to just do. Uh. Well,

654
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: a minute ago, we mentioned toxic shock syndrome with their

655
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: promise to go back to it, and this is something

656
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: that can happen if you leave a tampon in too long. Uh.

657
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: It is a pretty rough bacterial infection, uh. And it

658
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: can include you know, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, It can include

659
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: organ failure and death. And it is a very specific

660
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: toxic staff bacteria that can really grow and flourish in

661
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: the fibers of a tampon. And this has led you

662
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: know a lot of people, especially UM, you know in politics,

663
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: women in Congress, to say, hey, you know, what these

664
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: tampons are all have is proprietary uh constructions, and what

665
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: goes into a tampon, and we need to know, like

666
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 1: there needs to be more transparency here of what what

667
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: is in these things. I mean, it's generally thought to

668
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: be like cotton and rayon and quote synthetic fibers, but

669
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: like I said, each one is proprietary, so they don't

670
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: release the ingredients, and these bills just repeatedly die in

671
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: uh you know, die on the floor, and to spend

672
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: years and years and still haven't gotten through. I don't think, right, No,

673
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: that's absolutely the case. UM. Supposedly, in response, the UM,

674
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: like the pads and tampon makers have started to release

675
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: more information about what goes into their products on their websites,

676
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: but they also still point to the f d a UM.

677
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't realize this, but tampons are

678
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: regulated as a medical device in the United States, which

679
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: means the f D a UH supposedly tests them, verifies

680
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: their safety, UM, and make sure that the stuff that's

681
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: being sold in the US is fully safe. Again, ostensibly,

682
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: we've done plenty of episodes about how the FDA has

683
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: dropped the ball here there UM, but there there is

684
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: still kind of this like ongoing struggle to find out

685
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: exactly what is in tampons and UM and pads UM.

686
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, again, the FDA regulates tampons at least so UM.

687
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: I find that curious. But I think the reason why

688
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: they got into it, Chuck, was UM from that toxic

689
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: shock syndrome and realizing that that staff can grow on

690
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: the fibers of the tampon. And I think that's when

691
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 1: the FDA got involved and started claiming domain over tampons

692
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,959
Speaker 1: in particular. Interesting UM and then Chuck, we talked about

693
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: all these different UM sanitary products again, which is what

694
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: they're called UM. And even if you use them, there

695
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: can be times where they just malfunction or don't work

696
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: or it wasn't in right or who who, however you

697
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: want to put it. And accidents happen. And I think

698
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: if you are a teenager in high school and this

699
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: happens to you, you probably feel that your life is over.

700
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: And I just want to take a moment to assure

701
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: you that, as embarrassing as that probably is for you, UM,

702
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: your life is not over. Eventually, it's going to become

703
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: something that you laugh about, make fun of, UM, and

704
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: you will get past. So please don't let that. Don't

705
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,959
Speaker 1: feel like that's going to frame the rest of your life,

706
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: even though it does feel like it now of course. Uh.

707
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: And you know that kind of leads us to uh,

708
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: just sort of the culture around it period, not only

709
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: here in the United States, but worldwide, because in some

710
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: countries it is UM. It's really awful how menstruation is

711
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: treated and how people can be ostracized for menstruating or

712
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: even if they might be menstruating. I think Ed points

713
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: out that the k h o I, the coy people, UM,

714
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: they eat their meals separated by gender just in case

715
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: someone might be menstruating. Yeah, those are the people from

716
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: the gods, must be crazy from the Kalahari. Um. Yeah,

717
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: so there's like that's a really good example of a

718
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: very ingrained social taboo UM against menstruation that you find

719
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: in um undeveloped or less developed cultures. And you know,

720
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: those of us in the West tend to be like,

721
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: you know, that's so undeveloped. Of course there's a weird

722
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: social taboo. But we should not judge so fast, because

723
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: it was not very long ago that UM. Europe had

724
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: its own well and grained social taboos against menstruation as well, right, Yeah,

725
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,919
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking you know, late eighteen hundreds, which

726
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: is not that long ago. Uh. France, which you would

727
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: think is a very advanced country, they barred women who

728
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: are menstruating from working at food production jobs, like if

729
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: you're a winemaker, you had to take off and not

730
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: work and therefore not get paid when you were menstruating.

731
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: And as late as the eighteen nineties in Britain even

732
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: there were doctors that refused to perform surgeries on women

733
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: who are menstruating. Right, And so I mean there's like

734
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: reasons behind this. I think part of it is just

735
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: simple UM misogyny, UM, just just a way to to

736
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: keep women UM feeling ashamed, UM, feeling controlled by society. UM.

737
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of it. And then

738
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: also definitely tied into it is the idea, I mean,

739
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: there's blood, and you know humans are just hardwired to

740
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: not be comfortable at the sight of blood or want

741
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: to go toward it or anything like that, you know.

742
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: So I think those combined probably at least partially explained

743
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: where some of these social taboos came from and how

744
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: they've remained for so long. Yeah, and you know this

745
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: is uh, there are some countries that actually celebrate it.

746
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: We did talk about the monarchy being celebrated in certain

747
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: Native American cultures. There are other um, there are other

748
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: countries where they really take care of women who are menstruating,

749
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: whether it's UM. Like in Ghana, menstruating women have an

750
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: umbrella that they sit under, in little tints that they

751
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: sit under so they can at least be in the

752
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 1: shade when they're having their period. And you found another

753
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: country too that did something similar, right, Well, it was

754
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: a Native American indigenous group, the Ojibwe, and they actually

755
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,760
Speaker 1: they consider women um who are menstruating actually on their period,

756
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: in that phase of their menstrual cycle. As being spiritually powerful,

757
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: like this is a time where um, they might have

758
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: visions UM where they they usually use it to self

759
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: reflect or to learn from elders. And they actually would

760
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: seclude women, um who were menstruating on their period. They

761
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: would put them in like these little houses that were

762
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: purpose built for it. But it wasn't to be like,

763
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: oh good away from us. It was like, you're in

764
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: a really um significant place right now, and you should

765
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: go use this time to again reflect on yourself, orflect

766
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: on you know, what you're learning from your elders, and

767
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: just basically making the most out of the spiritually powerful

768
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, a few days out of this month. Yeah,

769
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: And I mean it's great hearing those stories. There are

770
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: far too many places, though, where where it is the opposite. Uh.

771
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: There's a term we should talk about briefly called period poverty. UH.

772
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: These are cultural barriers, political barriers, economic barriers to sanitary products,

773
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: to services UH, to education UH. And they they affect

774
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: everything everything from hygiene to your job, to your health, UH,

775
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: to your education and going to school. And it's a

776
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: it's a problem in the world. And they are all

777
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: kinds of great UM organizations that if you want to

778
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: help provide menstal products to people in need. There are

779
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: some great charities out there doing it. Um just you know,

780
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: just google that, like Menstrual Product Charity and they are

781
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: all are many, many of them. There's one called Freedom

782
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: for the Number four Girls, but there are there are

783
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: lots of them, and you should just check them out

784
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: if that's something that you feel like it's worthwhile, because

785
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, I mean, it's a really easy thing

786
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: to overlook in you know, the United States or Canada

787
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: or Australia or the UK, um. And then it's especially

788
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: easy to overlook in those countries as a man like

789
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: you just don't think about that kind of thing. But

790
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: even in those countries people do experience period poverty. So

791
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like you're just helping people in

792
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: less developed nations, like you're helping people in your own

793
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: country too who don't have access to it. And again

794
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: that access to sanitary products is considered a human right,

795
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: or it's becoming more and more considered a human right. Absolutely. Uh.

796
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: Should we close with some menstrual myths? Yes, this is fun,

797
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: It is fun. Uh. This is a myth that I

798
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: heard so much in my life. I assumed it was true,

799
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: which is that women if they hang out a lot together,

800
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: like in an office or or a small business, or

801
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: in a dorm or a sorority house, that they will

802
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: sync up. It can be called minstrel synchrony or the

803
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 1: McClintock effect, which is named after who was to blame

804
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: for this, which is the nineteen seventy one study by

805
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: Martha McClintock about women in a college dorm. It was

806
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: published in Nature magazine and it got a lot of attention.

807
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: And I think people still I think that women can

808
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: sync up, and that just has proved not to be

809
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: the case. It's been debunked over and over, and they

810
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: found a lot of problems with the initial study. So

811
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of things I saw that was

812
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: discredited and debunked, and um, I also saw that it

813
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: remains unproven. And apparently McClintock's initial study was, you know,

814
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: left a lot to be desired, so her methodology was

815
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: not really great, so the whole thing couldn't be reproduced

816
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: using her exact methodology. But apparently, anecdotally speaking, it's so

817
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: prevalent um that like people just refuse to believe, it

818
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: just doesn't exist. And say we just haven't figured out

819
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: how to how to prove it yet. Well, what I saw,

820
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: and again maybe maybe the jury still out, but what

821
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: I saw was that the variable, the variability of the

822
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: menstrual cycle among people who menstraight, and the days that

823
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: it can change and get thrown out of sink and

824
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: it can last longer, be shorter than that overlap is

825
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: what accounts for people thinking that they're sinking up. Um.

826
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: But who knows. I mean, I think maybe the jury

827
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: is still out, but we can definitely say that no

828
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: one proved that women sink up. That's fun. Let's both

829
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: say that what other myths are out there? We've got

830
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: some good ones, Chuck, this is one that I didn't

831
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: realize either. Um. The idea that you can't get pregnant

832
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: on your period, news flash, you totally can. Yeah, and

833
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: in like really take that to heart. You can get

834
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: pregnant in your period. And the reason why is, if

835
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: you'll remember back to what we were talking about when

836
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: we kind of were doing the nitty gritty of UM,

837
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: the minstrreul and um ovulation cycles, they kind of overlap,

838
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: so that follicular cycle it starts when you start your period.

839
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: And if you have a short follicular cycle, you might

840
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: drop an egg pretty shortly after you stop your period.

841
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: That's fine and dandy. The problem is is sperm is

842
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: viable for up to five days in the human body,

843
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: in a woman's body, So if you drop an egg

844
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: and they're sperm, that's saying hanging out on day five,

845
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Speaker 1: it can fertilize that egg even though you're still on

846
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Speaker 1: your period. You had sex while you were on your period,

847
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: that's right, So again, you can get pregnant on your period.

848
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Speaker 1: Very important if you're just getting started in your uh

849
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Speaker 1: sexual life, to understand this or at any time in

850
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: your life. Yeah, I was gonna say, or you don't

851
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: want a big surprise, you know, in your midlife? Uh?

852
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: What about sharks and bears? Despite what Steve Carrell said

853
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: an anchorman, which is one of the very funny scenes,

854
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: it really is Apparently some people think that's true. And

855
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Speaker 1: what's weird is there was a study that was conducted

856
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Speaker 1: that the National Park Service hosts on their website mentions

857
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Speaker 1: on their website that UM said that it's entirely possible

858
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Speaker 1: that UM a period could attract bears because bears have

859
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: such an amazing sense of smell um, but that they

860
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: would not be any more attracted to that odor than

861
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: any other odor that might attract them. So it's not

862
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: like you're just guaranteed to be attacked by a bear

863
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: if you go into the woods while you're menstruating, right,

864
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: like the bears smells, it might as well be a

865
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Speaker 1: uneaten hot pocket to bear. That's the equivalent of menstruating

866
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: as far as bears are. Keep saying, Uh, did you

867
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: see the part about polar bears though no, huh, they did.

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Speaker 1: This was on the same NPS site. They did an

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Speaker 1: actual study and it seems that, or at least in

870
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Speaker 1: the study, polar bears actually were specifically attracted to menstrual blood.

871
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, So we not only didn't bust a myth,

872
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: we actually supported a myth. Well it's it's they said,

873
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: grizzlies and black bears. They did test where they had

874
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: like you know, tampons and stuff out with other things,

875
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: and the grizzly bears and black bears didn't really care,

876
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: but um, the polar bears did. And I don't know

877
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: like how full proof that study is, but they they

878
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: basically said, the jury is still out on polar bears.

879
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: And polar bears are just super aggressive anyway. They're one

880
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,359
Speaker 1: of the only animals that, like, we'll stalk a human.

881
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: I think polar bears, lions, and I think there's one more,

882
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: but um so that it may be due to that,

883
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: but jury's still out on that. I think sharks is

884
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: a definite note right, Yeah, from what I saw from

885
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: what our friends that you buy co tex say, it's

886
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: definitely no, that's where that one came from. Um, just

887
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 1: a couple more things to button up before we go.

888
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: We definitely didn't want to scare you about toxic shock syndrome.

889
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: It's actually exceedingly rare. I think there's something about like

890
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: fifty eight cases a year um. And you can stay

891
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 1: on top of it by staying on top of changing

892
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 1: your tampon regularly, I think, no longer than eight hours.

893
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: And then also don't use one that's more absorbent than

894
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: you need, because again, they proliferate on the fibers, So

895
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: more fibers means more chance for that bacteria to proliferate

896
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: and create those toxins. That's one and then also one

897
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: other thing, even if you're not worried about getting pregnant

898
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: on your period. You can still catch sexually transmitted diseases

899
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: on your period, so you should be wearing a condom

900
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: in that case. Anyway. That's right, Good job, buddy, thank you,

901
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: Good job to you. There's also a tamp on shortage

902
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: going on right now, Chuck, did you see that? I did. Uh.

903
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that there's a shortage of

904
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: right now. So that's um obviously worrisome, especially with these

905
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: organizations that try to send these two places where they

906
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: really really need them. Yeah, for sure. But there's few

907
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: shortages that can be attributed to Amy Schumer. Uh, And

908
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: this one has been at least in part. There was

909
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: a big tam PACs ad campaign featuring Amy Schumer that

910
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: tam pac said was so colossally um impactful, and sales

911
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: went up so high that they blamed part of the

912
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: tampon shortage on the ad campaign. I'd buy anything Amy

913
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Speaker 1: Schumer told me to buy. I love her. Sure, She's

914
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: America's greatest national treasure. She's one of them. She's better

915
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: than the Declaration of Independence and Abe Lincoln's hat rolled together,

916
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: which is what some people used as tampons during the

917
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: Civil War. That's right. Nice, Uh, you got anything else.

918
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: I got nothing else, All right, Chuck, way to go, buddy.

919
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Speaker 1: Um we did it. Since I just said that it's

920
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: time for a listener mail. Uh. We had our drowning

921
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: episode run on our Saturday selects recently and got a

922
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: lot of people writing in again about that. And this

923
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: is a water safety p s a from um someone

924
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Speaker 1: who worked as a lifeguard. Her name is Ella Fineberg,

925
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 1: and ellis as a couple of things, one of which

926
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Speaker 1: is water wings are not safe parents. And these are

927
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: the things that the parents put their little kids in

928
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: that goes around their chest and then their arms. They're

929
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: called float ees. You know. They put their little tiny

930
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: arms through their Uh. Many parents think they're legit flotation devices.

931
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Speaker 1: I don't blame them, um, but they don't secure under

932
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: their arms very well. And there's a very real risk

933
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Speaker 1: that if a kid goes under the water, wings will

934
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: float up to their wrists and not do anything to

935
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Speaker 1: keep their actual head above water. Uh. And newsflash, you

936
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: can't breathe if your hands are above the water. That's

937
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: the second news flash of this episode. If only your

938
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: hands for buff water. Let should say. Uh. And here's

939
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Speaker 1: another news flash, Um, Ella says something you didn't mention

940
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Speaker 1: is if you are not a strong swimmer and you

941
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Speaker 1: don't have a flotation device with you, do not help

942
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: someone who is drowning. Uh. And it fights probably most

943
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: people's instinct. But you see stories all the time about

944
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: two people drowning instead of one person drowning. Um, or

945
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, maybe causing that person to even drown quicker

946
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: because you're not a good swimmer. But Ella says, just

947
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: reiterates a few different times, just do not attempt to

948
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: rescue a drowning victim. If you can't swim very well yourself. Uh,

949
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: call your local emergency number, wait for someone go screaming

950
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: for help. Uh, and fight that instinct. And that is

951
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Speaker 1: from Ella Fineberg, former lifeguard. Nice. Thanks a lot, Ella,

952
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: I think you really did some good work here and

953
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Speaker 1: we appreciate it. And hello to your husband because they

954
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Speaker 1: listen together. Nice. Um. Well, if you want to be

955
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Speaker 1: like Ella and share some really great important information, we

956
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Speaker 1: would love to share it with everybody else. You can

957
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