The Female Factor: Making women’s health count – and what it means for you

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And typically women will have some physical symptoms of PMS as well. So the things that we mentioned, like headache, mood disturbance, cramps, things like that. But they'll have significant mood disturbance and that will impact their day-to-day quality of life. So they'll find that, you know, a lot of women will even use their annual leave because they'd feel like they can't go into work, which is something that is not okay. So the cutoff is too high. And only recently I actually had a friend send it to me now in hospitals, they've got now sex specific cutoffs. Now it's not across the board, not all hospitals, they're trialing it in certain hospitals, but it just goes to show how for very long, We've been having cutoffs, which are too high for women, and the amount of women who would've been turned away, sent home.

Hazel Wallace: Yeah, absolutely. And I think we know, obviously how powerful the link is between our gut and our brain and our gut and our immune system and all these other systems. So it makes sense that there's a link between our menstrual health and our gut. And you know, even when it comes to estrogen, we know that there's an. Yeah. And like it would be completely cut off, but that's not at all the picture that you're painting. There are lots of options here in the uk. We will start with things like lifestyle advice and then we'll move towards therapy and there are medication options. In very extreme cases, some women go for surgery and have hysterectomies and their ovaries removed, but that is very rare. Historically, female bodies (both animal and human) have been excluded from medical research for three main reasons:

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Hazel Wallace: Yes. And whenever I talk about this, you know, as we mentioned, women experience this. Menstruation on a very huge spectrum, so some people find it very hard to even get outta bed, and the thoughts of exercising is the last thing they wanna do. First of all, if you are bedbound, that is not a normal symptom and you should be speaking to your GP or your doctor about that.This is a must read for all women with no-nonsense information about what is within your control and what is not. It’s received heaps of praise for a reason. There's a lot of theories why some women experience it and some women don't. When we compare, women who do and women who don't, their hormone levels actually tend to be the same. So it doesn't seem to be that, but the hypothesis is that women who experience it are more sensitive to that drop in hormones that we talked about just before the next period, that they fall off that cliff and feel a bit more sensitive to it.