Podcast Episodes

Using Period Blood to Diagnose Disease - Subscriber only episode teaser

Season 2 Episode 13

You know how many diseases are diagnosed or monitored by drawing blood from a vein in your arm and running tests on it? Would those tests still work if you ran them on menstrual blood? It's not THAT …

Published on 9 hours ago

Recurring UTIs and the Microbiome

Season 2 Episode 12

Kate brings on a friend for a Case Study episode all about recurring UTIs and the vaginal microbiome. They take a microbiome test and talk to a health provider to understand how whats living in their…

Published on 2 weeks ago

What Is Patient Advocacy and How Do I Do It? with Tight Lipped

Season 2 Episode 11

Everybody's always telling us patient advocacy is the way to solve systemic issues in women's healthcare - ok so what exactly IS patient advocacy? What does it look like? HOW does it get us better ca…

Published on 1 month ago

How To Talk About Your Period Pain: Subscriber-only Episode Teaser

Season 2 Episode 10

Why does it feel so hard to talk about our period pain? Who benefits when we stay quiet? How do we build a world where information about period pain travels as easily as a casual chat?

In this how-to …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy for Period Pain with Dr. Sara Reardon

Season 2 Episode 9

Kate talks to Dr. Sara Reardon, aka The Vagina Whisperer - a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist and author of the new book Floored, a woman's guide to pelvic floor health at every age an…

Published on 2 months ago

Surgery for Period Pain (Part 2)

Season 2 Episode 8

Kate is back from surgery! In Part 2 of this 2 part episode, Kate walks through the day of the surgery, from arriving at the hospital to the 4 weeks of recovery thus far, and the surgical and patholo…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Surgery For Period Pain (Part 1)

Season 2 Episode 7

Kate is back from surgery! In Part 1 of a 2 part series, she goes step by step through the imaging result that gave her the information that lead her to commit to surgery, and the physical, administr…

Published on 3 months ago

Going Off Hormonal Birth Control

Season 2 Episode 6

In this Case Study episode, Kate brings on Deanna Hart-Nokes, who just went off hormonal birth control for the second time in 20 years, and has been experiencing some mysterious symptoms. Kate deep-d…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Fibroids and The White Dress Project

Season 2 Episode 5

Fibroids are a super common cause of severe period pain - up to 80% of people with a uterus will get fibroids at some point! So...why don't we know why they grow? Why don't they get caught and treate…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Cycle Tracking: Subscriber-only Episode Teaser

Season 2 Episode 4

Kate talks to Laura Federico and Morgan Miller, authors of The Cycle Book, all about cycle tracking. What is it? How do I do it? Am I already doing it if I'm tracking my period with an app?

To access…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago