What: A deep dive from National Geographic on how menstruation ends up reshaping the brain. Every time it happens.
Why it matters: As one neurobiologist points out, women will experience “almost 450 menstrual cycles over 30-40 years,” which is a lot of change. And although women make up the majority of Alzheimers and depression cases, “only about half of one percent of brain-imaging research is related to women.”
Source: National Geographic
Kidney disease in women has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as some of the leading causes.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
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“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”
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