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If someone's menstrual cycle is
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irregular, should they be concerned?
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Yes.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Your body's meant to work
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like clockwork. And our monthly cycle is
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so much more than getting ready to have
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a baby, especially when we're looking at
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exercise. And it's important to say if
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you don't have a period, it's very
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harmful to long-term health, brain
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health, mental health, low energy, mood,
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and libido. And I don't want the younger
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generations to have to go through the
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stuff that we've gone through.
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So, it's an important discussion that we
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need to have. So, we asked a thousand
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women to submit their questions ahead of
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this conversation and I got so many
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questions around fertility,
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understanding hormones, PCOS, birth
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control pill, miscarriage.
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And I'll say this, Stephen, it's because
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we haven't had these discussions
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publicly. When we look at funding in
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women's health is horrible.
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Like less than 1% is spent on women over
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40.
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Women are living 20% more of our lives
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with chronic disease or mental health
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disorders.
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I mean, 50% of patients with unexplained
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infertility have indometriosis. But yet,
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it takes women 7 to 10 years to get a
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diagnosis after symptoms start. But
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also, there are things that we do that
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will inherently harm our fertility
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because we're not taught this. And it
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predisposes you to many medical problems
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later in life.
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And patients will say, "But I have a
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really high pain tolerance like it's a
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badge."
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So, they gaslight themselves and that's
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what we're all trying to fight here. But
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there are a lot of things we can do to
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deal with this.
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And then I want to talk about menopause.
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So, in medical school, menopause just
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gets shoved into a tiny box. This is a
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scary statistic. So,
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oh my god, it's crazy.
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This is why we need to create change.