i just have to say i really appreciate them wording it like "biological females", "people born female", "people who get periods", "people who get pregnant", etc. 💙♥️🤍♥️💙

Thanks for mentioning endometriosis! It affects 1 in 10 menstruaters yet we learn nothing about it in school! I never even heard the word endometriosis until 2 years ago and turns out most of the afab people on one side of my family have it. I’ve been struggling with this awful disease for over a decade and never knew what was wrong with me!

"Although some people do pretend to have multiple personalities."

Maybe a follow up on the development of the male hormonal birth control, there have been a few in development and some I think were stopped due to the emotional side affects that are so common in the female hormonal birth control methods, could be a good discussion with people who menstruate, not sure if there will many studies or much trail information available though

the sex ed at my australian school is so good that we even learnt how pregnancy pills work

With the DID convo, it’s sooo amazing; they did testing on those with different personalities where certain personalities within the same subject differed physiologically, e.g. there was a case where one personality was diabetic and another wasn’t within the SAME BODY, or one had asthma or an allergy and the others didn’t. Abso-fucking-lutely fascinating. Are we real? Are we just mind simulations?!? 😆

Best part of the week

So excited for this episode! I sent an email about this a while ago asking for you guys to discuss it and I’m so glad you have! ❤️

I actually took it because I had cysts. I had a large cyst removed and had to stop the pill because it was causing issues with my thyroid, which was already a problem.

The morning after pill does NOT end ("flush out") a pregnancy that has started it simply prevents ovulation so that there is no egg to be fertilised by sperm that has entered the body. This is why it might not work if you take it during or recently after ovulation, and why you have to take it within a certain time span. This is very important!!

There was a trial recently (as in, in the past few years or so) that was relatively well publicized for the pill for men. However, the trials were discontinued due to the severe side effects. Not saying they were wrong to do so, the side effects were quite severe, but the list of side effects was very similar to the list of side effects the pill for women has. There were a lot of jokes about men not being able to deal with something a large group of women are more or less obligated to deal with. It was a great example of how the medical world is biased in favour of men, side effects for women being deemed acceptable, but as soon as men have to deal with them the side effects are too severe and the whole trial is scrapped.

Re: syncing up. If people really believe it, the placebo effect can make it happen. Like Luke said he read that people were given a placebo and told it would delay their period and it did

Such an excellent episode! Also Bliss has a delightful presence :)

Pregnancy is the most intense parasite - surviveable 😌🙃😖😅

Why is Luke ✨glowing✨in this episode

Get hyped

Oh my god I danced in first grade to cotton eye Joe 😱

Loving the planet themed name title thing!

Love this

You say you don't think they were on it long enough for depression to really show but I'm not convinced about that. I can't take the combined oral contraceptive pill so tried the progesterone only type(and by the sounds of it that is nearer to what was originally being tried), I was feeling suicidal within about 3 days of taking it and so quickly stopped taking it, so unless they were only taking it for a couple of days there would have been plenty of time for depression to potentially show.