A New "Period" of Time: Menstruation, Research, Innovations and Interventions That Are Still Lacking
Episode notes
We’ve been taught to hide our periods. But what has that taught medicine to overlook?
We've always collected blood, tested urine. Yet menstrual blood has largely been treated as something to dispose of, not something to learn from.
In this episode of The Hormonal Podcast, Zarah Khondoker is exploring a different question: what could change if we treated menstruation as a source of information rather than an inconvenience?
From the potential of menstrual blood diagnostics to the questions we miss when menstrual cycles are left out of research, we’re connecting three things that belong in the same conversation: innovation, research, and equity
Because ending period stigma isn’t just about making it easier to talk about menstruation. It’s about taking the next step: asking better questions, studying what we’ve overlooked, and turning that knowledge into better care. Advocacy opens the conversation. Science helps us do something with it.