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EVERYTHING
Majority of Gen Z Turns to TikTok for Health Advice
What: More than one-third of Gen Z people surveyed said they use TikTok as “their main form of health advice.” TikTok was “more than twice as popular as the other options listed,” which included friends, Google, and qualified doctors.
Why it matters: “The results also suggested that Gen Z users who turn to TikTok for health advice may be prone to misinformation because 1 in 3 said they do not double check the advice they get from the app.”
Source: The Hill
PREGNANCY + POSTPARTUM
Getting Elite Athletes (And New Moms) Safely Back to Sports
What: Until very recent history, moms were not Olympic athletes. That has slowly started to change, as a “growing number of Olympian athlete-mothers who have been breaking records and changing the narrative. … But despite the increase in athlete-mother successes and improved advocacy, there is still a lack of evidence for a safe postpartum return to sport.”
Why it matters: “A study on elite athlete’s experiences returning to sport after childbirth demonstrated that athlete-mothers felt pressures and expectations to return to sport too quickly after childbirth, at a detriment to their physical and emotional health. Traditional return to sport frameworks after injury involve assessment of strength, endurance and functional abilities, but also emphasize the importance of mental readiness. Our team suggests that return to sport postpartum should follow a similar framework.”
Source: The Conversation
Ending the ‘Postpartum Cliff’
What: More than half of maternal deaths happen in the year after childbirth, but women are essentially dropped by OBGYNs after birth and told to follow up in six weeks. A study examined how text messages “explaining the importance of follow-up postpartum care with a primary care physician, and offering help scheduling an appointment” improved new moms getting care.
Why it matters: “The improvement was significant: 40% of patients in the intervention group completed their follow-up primary care physician visits, compared to 22% of the control group, which received no messages.”
Source: Stat
ABORTION ACCESS
VP Nominee JD Vance Hides Abortion Position
What: One day after being nominated as Trump’s vice president, Sen. JD Vance deleted a section of his website where he claimed to be “100 percent pro-life.” It also said banning abortion access is “pro-family,” despite women nearly dying and losing their ability to have children in the future because they were refused emergency abortions.
Why it matters: Vance is hiding what he really thinks on abortion, just like he is hiding what he really thinks about Trump. He is an extreme anti-abortion candidate who opposes abortion without exceptions for rape or incest.
Source: Twitter
MENOPAUSE
Eating Disorders Mixed with Menopause
What: Women’s Health has a deep dive on midlife eating disorders, which can be triggered by perimenopause and weight gain associated with that process.
Why it matters: “In fact, you might be twice as likely to have an eating
disorder in your 40s (3.6 percent) as to have breast cancer (1.5 percent), according to Val Schonberg, RD, a certified menopause practitioner. What puberty is for eating disorders in adolescence, menopause is for eating disorders in midlife, according to a 2023 review of recent literature on the epidemiology and treatment of eating disorders published in the journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry.”
Source: Women’s Health
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