Just my regular reminder that no supplement has quality data to recommend it for symptoms of menopause. These kinds of supplements are money making machines. Think millions of dollars.
In my opinion it’s bad enough that these products exist, but when providers sell these kinds of supplements, it tells me they are unconcerned with science and your health and are more interested in their bottom line. There are doctors and naturopaths with their own speciality products, and yet you have no way of finding out how much money is involved. You can look up doctors to see what they from drug companies, but you have no way of knowing with supplements or with non physicians. And of course there are people who don’t have their own line of supplements, but promote specific products. You have no way of knowing if money has changed hands.
If these people believed in these products, they should do the studies. Surely they can use some of the millions they are bringing in for studies…then again they’d have to think you deserved studies.
Some people are so awful in their willful ignorance. Claiming there are over 8,000 studies linking using a laptop as teen with miscarriage later in life is a new low.
Thank you to everyone for your kind wishes yesterday. Oliver is still in the ICU and it has been a very rough past 36 hours for him. But things seem to have stabilized and I can describe the situation as cautiously optimistic.
I was mindlessly scrolling videos to take my mind off the general suckitude and saw a video of charging your Apple Watch by hanging it from the hole in the band. Given the limited space for charging in his ICU room, I thought I would give it a go! No more laying the watch on the floor hoping no one will stand on it (including the dog).
When I mention supplements that claim to have therapeutic value (meaning they can treat a symptom or condition) and explain the dismal data, there are always people who seem to think that it is not possible to study these products. Or that it is somehow the government’s job. No, the onus on research is from the company making the claim. It is a CHOICE to not study a product, and it is always a financial one. The people making and selling supplements could funnel their millions and billions into research and product safety…except that would affect their bottom line. Pharma does this because regulations demand it.
If a supplement company studies a product and it doesn’t work, they’ve lost out on their revenue stream. Why take that gamble when you don’t have to?
Supplements are simply untested, untreated pharmaceuticals and people promoting them obviously don’t mind that fact. Personally, I think women deserve science.
It can be confusing, because we do recommend some vitamins and minerals for deficiencies and also prenatal vitamins. But the lack of regulation also harms here, because products might not have the quality control that you think. Head to The Vajenda to read more. I recently wrote about how many prenatal vitamins don’t contain what they claim (Look for “What’s in Your Prenatal Vitamin.”)
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
We went to the “Fashioning San Francisco” exhibit at the @deyoungmuseum and here are some of my favorite outfits.
The first two images are the Junon dress (Dior), and it is breathtaking.
I also loved the red, pirate-esque dress, which I think was Comme des Garçons and the tea length black dress with the stunning pleats (also a Dior). I was left feeling a bit like Mrs. Harris…oh to have a Dior gown.
The skills required to produce some (likely all) of these outfits are something to behold. For the purple pleated dress at the end it took 7 yards of fabric to make one yard of pleated fabric!
The shoe exhibit was a disappointment. Maybe 9 or 10 pairs of shoes! Sigh.
If you’ve listened to a podcast, there is a pretty decent chance you’ve heard an ad for a supplement or a probiotic, be it a regular advertisement injected between segments or something read by the host. (Some hosts even have their own line of supplements, but that’s another story altogether). It’s a smart advertising move. Podcasts are often well-researched, and the hosts are seen as either experts in their fields, experts at deep dives into topics, or both, hence their value. Via the close association with the podcast, the research skills and integrity of the hosts are transferred to the unstudied, unregulated product, which now seems more beneficial, wholesome, and backed by science, even when the data says otherwise. Many hosts are influencers, so they often have additional trust with their audience. I call this phenomenon of supplement advertising on podcasts podwashing, a riff on sportswashing.
To explore this unfortunate advertising avenue, I took a deep dive into a @crookedmedia podcast, World Corrupt, that tackles the Saudi Arabian government’s soccer sportswashing that is sponsored by a genetically engineered probiotic that claims to reduce hangovers or “rough mornings.” There is a not so subtle promotion of binge drinking an a product that is untested on humans. Oh, and the central hypothesis about how the product might work (reducing acetaldehyde) is not supported by the current science.
I hope you head over to The Vajenda. I learned some interesting things while researching this post, and I think you might too!
#podwashing
Unfortunately, not all women can ask doctors the health questions they’re concerned about. So, we asked Dr. Jen Gunter the main things she wants women to know about their health, and what did she have to say? Well, tune in to our latest The Honest Talk Podcast to hear her answers!
Dr. Jen Gunter is a Canadian by birth who lives in the U.S. She’s deeply worried about attacks on women’s rights there, but she also has a message for us, here in Canada. Tune in to hear more.
I love getting feedback about my books. I wrote Blood because people kept telling me “why don’t they teach us this?” Or “why am I just finding out now?” Every day I see misinformation about the menstrual cycle online, and it is soooooo sticky. So this book is my vaccine against misinformation.
It’s also on sale on Amazon right now!
I just made this absolute winning one pot turmeric chicken and rice dinner from @dishingouthealth
My photo is terrible (you can swipe to see), so I didn’t want to lead with it 😂
Instead of the canned lite coconut milk, I used the unsweetened coconut milk you find in the dairy case. I added green peas for extra veggies and protein. The sumac onions took it to the next level.
It absolutely satisfied my Venn diagram of nutritious, delicious, and easy to make. Will definitely make again. Prep time was 20 minutes or so and another 25 minutes of baking.
I just made this absolute winning one pot turmeric chicken and rice dinner from @dishingouthealth
My photo is terrible (you can swipe to see), so I didn’t want to lead with it 😂
Instead of the canned lite coconut milk, I used the unsweetened coconut milk you find in the dairy case. I added green peas for extra veggies and protein. The sumac onions took it to the next level.
It absolutely satisfied my Venn diagram of nutritious, delicious, and easy to make. Will definitely make again. Prep time was 20 minutes or so and another 25 minutes of baking.
I just made this absolute winning one pot turmeric chicken and rice dinner from @dishingouthealth
My photo is terrible (you can swipe to see), so I didn’t want to lead with it 😂
Instead of the canned lite coconut milk, I used the unsweetened coconut milk you find in the dairy case. I added green peas for extra veggies and protein. The sumac onions took it to the next level.
It absolutely satisfied my Venn diagram of nutritious, delicious, and easy to make. Will definitely make again. Prep time was 20 minutes or so and another 25 minutes of baking.
I sat down with the brilliant Dr. Jen Gunter (@drjengunter), OB/GYN and fierce advocate for women’s health, on this must-listen TED Health episode out today! Dive into the truth behind period myths as Dr. Gunter debunks the idea of menstrual syncing, pheromones and more.
Don’t miss this conversation and grab your copy of her book, “Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation” to empower yourself with knowledge! Listen to the full @TED Health episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Failing with Friends – on the latest episode of our subscriber series, we discuss how to reject unnecessary guilt. “Stare guilt in the face, and say no thanks, not today”.
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You can send in your failures using the link in the bio. We’re here to listen. No problem is too big or too small – remember, you can’t fail at failing. #failingwithfriends #guilt #viral
If women had been in medicine from the beginning, maybe some of the terminology would be different, and women’s health would be seen as less of a failure. In this weeks episode we discuss the language of medicine with the one and only @drjengunter
Listen to the full #HowToFail interview now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎙️
#howtofail #drjengunter #viral #viralsound