ResearchBuzz: FirehoseReuters: Google, Flo Health to pay $56 million in period-tracking app privacy case. “Google and app developer Flo Health will pay $56 million to settle a class action claiming they violated the privacy of millions of Flo app users by collecting information about their menstrual health cycles and using it for targeted advertising.”
Nonilex…Ms. Waters, who recently co-wrote a #Heritage report on infertility.… has proposed directing the #NIH to expand its study of infertility & reproductive health conditions, including endometriosis. She has also proposed using govt funds to…*educate* #women on their #MenstrualCycles & their “natural fertility,” such as cycle-charting courses that many conservative #Christian women use to try to prevent pregnancy without using birth control [idiotic].
One proposal shared w/aides would reserve 30% of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, govt-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are #married or have #children.
Another would give a $5k “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the govt to fund programs that *educate* #women on their #MenstrualCycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating & able to conceive.
De Groene CupThe #OuraRing uses three small sensors in the interior of the ring equipped with infrared light photoplethysmography to track users' heart rate, blood oxygen, breathing regularity, heart rate variability, temperature, activity, and sleep.
Oura’s Readiness Score Now Takes #MenstrualCycles Into Account
https://ouraring.com/blog/readiness-score-cycle-consideration/
Why are women forced to turn to TikTok for menstrual advice? Where are the brands?
Of course, brand involvement in women’s sports often falls short anyway. The traditionally male-dominated health, wellness, and sports space has exposed a glaring lack of understanding and empathy for the nuanced needs of everyday sportswomen.
#MenstrualCycles #MenstrualTaboo #Sports #Menstruation #WomenHealth #GenderEquality
"Other hormones such as estrogen also contribute significantly to the perception of pain. Estrogen can activate receptors in the brain that reduce sensitivity sometimes, but it changes with hormonal fluctuations like #MenstrualCycles, #Pregnancy, or #Menopause"
Radical AnthropologyInteresting piece on the ideas of #sexstrike so troubling the US.
What this misses out is that #sexstrike was how we created human culture! And it was periodic -- not forever! Aligned to the #moon and #menstrualcycles
See 'Blood Relations' on this link
https://libcom.org/article/blood-relations-menstruation-and-origins-culture-chris-knight-complete-book
Sex Strike takes specific forms among #African #huntergatherers, that is #menstrual #taboos and rules about #brideservice which is the work a son-in-law does for his mother-in-law (she is boss) otherwise no nooky!
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture - Chris Knight (complete book)
This highly original book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behaviour and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual and political revolution initiated by women.
Sarah dreams of beansPeople who do #PeriodTracking and are concerned about data #privacy, I am curious-- what is your relationship to tracking on paper?
Boosts and comments welcome.
#MenstrualCycles #Fertility #PeriodTrackers #AbortionIsHealthcare
I have tried paper tracking and it sucks
I don't know how but I am curious about it
I don't know how and I don't care
I love tracking cycles on paper
Poll ended at .
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Modern lives are messing up #menstrualcycles—earlier starts, more irregularity
Mean age of first period fell from 12.5 in participants born between 1950-1969 to 11.9 in participants born 2000-2005. Between 1950 -2005, percentage of people obtaining regularity within two years fell from 76.3% to 56%. Authors of study point to environmental factors, #endocrine-disrupting chemicals, metals, air pollutants, dietary patterns, psychosocial stress, adverse childhood experiences.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/periods-are-starting-earlier-becoming-less-regular-iphone-study-finds/
Mean age of first period fell from 12.5 in participants born between 1950-1969 to 11.9 in participants born 2000-2005. Between 1950 -2005, percentage of people obtaining regularity within two years fell from 76.3% to 56%. Authors of study point to environmental factors, #endocrine-disrupting chemicals, metals, air pollutants, dietary patterns, psychosocial stress, adverse childhood experiences.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/periods-are-starting-earlier-becoming-less-regular-iphone-study-finds/
Poetry NewsMenstrual cycles vary
Irregularity a danger
Heart health needs care
#menstrualcycles #hearthealth #afib #womenshealth #haiku #poetry
