self care
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PMOS is Not Just About Weight
If there’s one thing that will forever and ever make me rage - it’s weight stigma in reproductive medicine. For a large population of people, visiting the doctor for concerns of irregular periods, stubborn acne, or thinning hair is met with a frustratingly singular piece of advice: "Just lose some weight, and your symptoms will go away."
By Emily the Period RD6 days ago in Longevity
Stop Policing How Disabled People Set Boundaries
There's a funny thing that happens when you write openly about disability, ableism, and the emotional labor we're constantly asked to perform: people who are new to disability sometimes react like you've personally set their house on fire.
By Tracy Stine8 days ago in Longevity
One Down .. Millions To Go
Introduction This was where I was in 2017, doing a million steps every three months. That is probably still true today, although I have reduced my daily target to seven thousand steps. That may sound odd, but I believe it is always best to set achievable targets because when you hit them, it feels good, and when you surpass them, it feels better. The targets have also got to be meaningful, to sum people it might be walking up a flight of stairs, or even just getting out of bed.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 10 days ago in Longevity
The Weather You Bring Into the Next Room
At 8:17 in the morning, a message arrives. Three lines, maybe four. Something about a deadline that was supposed to be understood rather than stated; something about competence, implied rather than said. It takes eleven seconds to read and about three minutes to answer, tersely, and then the day resumes — coffee, commute, the first meeting.
By Khali Sollis10 days ago in Longevity
The Brain May Be Organizing Itself Into Thought
Right now, without any physical change to your brain, you are doing several incompatible things at once. You are reading these words in order, holding the beginning of this sentence in mind while you reach its end. Somewhere in the background, a memory from yesterday is available to you, uncalled but not forgotten. If a door slams in another room, your attention will dart there and then return, unassisted, to this paragraph. None of this required your brain to grow a single new connection. It happened with the same neurons, the same synapses, the same physical hardware you had an hour ago.
By Khali Sollis14 days ago in Longevity
Sixteen Years After Scientists Warned About Endocrine Disruptors in Plastic Bottles, What Does the Evidence Actually Say?
In 2010, a physician named Leonard Sax published a two-page commentary in a peer-reviewed environmental health journal, and it has been quietly fueling water-bottle anxiety ever since. The paper, "Polyethylene Terephthalate May Yield Endocrine Disruptors," didn't report an experiment. Sax ran no lab work of his own. What he did was lay out a hypothesis: that PET — the clear, lightweight plastic used in most disposable water bottles — might leach chemicals capable of interfering with the body's hormones. He pointed to a handful of early studies on phthalates and antimony, cited a striking 2009 finding on mud snails, and closed with a sentence that got left behind as the idea spread: "More research is needed."
By Khali Sollis21 days ago in Longevity
