#menopause facts

[guide-beauty]

What is NuviaLab Meno?

Menopause is a special period in the life of every mature woman. The timing of its occurrence depends on many factors and we have no control over it. However, it is only up to you what your mood will be like. With the right supplementation, you can reduce the annoying symptoms of menopause and regain your vitality.

NuviaLab Meno is an advanced multi-ingredient food supplement created for menopausal women. Its unique composition was selected to help with the most common symptoms of menopause, such as: hot flashes, excessive sweating, difficulty sleeping, a feeling of constant fatigue, irritability, decreased libido or malaise.

[fatal-blow]

the interplay of testosterone and estrogen with chronic triggerpoints/general muscle health is so interesting man my mind is spinning

[ropebunnykant]

your mom is literally my grandma's age that's so wild

no yeah she’s old <3 a lot of my siblings are old enough to be my parents, i actually have a number of nieces and nephews that are older than me cause my dad is even older and started having kids at like 19

[paul-simon-juggling]

Couldn't post the "Paul losing his fertility" gifset without also making "Art is dying from an incurable disease," my beloved.

[spacedykensfw3]

Meta, describe what being horny on T is like?

Do you remember being a teenager? (Particularly if you were a cis dude, but if you were anything like me, I was extremely horny all the time when I was a teenager and I was, to the outside observer, your average (slightly weird) cis girl) Do you remember the heightened hormones that made you want to jerk off 8 times a day? Maybe sometimes you did jerk off 8 times a day?

It’s like that except you’re 27 and can buy sex toys.

Also, you have this fancy new bottom growth coming in so sometimes your clit grinds on your underwear in a new fun way and you suddenly want to shove your hand in your pants during your commute home from work.

It’s awesome lmao (and that is not sarcasm)

[pepperpatrol]

I fall into a deep burnout depression every year in November until about the middle of January like clock work bc strangers berate me, physically threaten me, throw shit at me, scream about how I'm ruining christmas etc etc all coinciding with the time of year that the sun starts going down at 3PM, a moratorium on sickdays and vacation time and hundreds of stupid fucking boxes every day but I don't get to send any of them to jail for 15 years.

[holocene-sims]

five oc facts

@sparkiekong tagged me a VERY veryyyyy long time ago and i'm just now getting to this tag months later (i'm so sorry 😭)

i'll tag: @thebramblewood @mangosimoothie @queeniecook @stargazer-sims @dandylion240 @jonquilyst 🤍

i just did a similar prompt for áine, who is this sim's niece, so how about facts for cathal? he's also a newbie to my sims universe, and i adore him and his personality tbh, but canon reasons make it hard for him to be included too much outside of random simblr posts like this

he is WILDLY younger than all his other siblings (like by 20 years) and was a total surprise baby. really, he's kind of a medical miracle because he was born after his mother went into menopause and was in her 40s, and no one knew he even existed until he randomly sprang into the world one august morning lmfao 💀

i think i mentioned it in one post but he's been a vegetarian for most of his life! actually, he declared himself a vegan when he was, like, six years old; he figured out what eggs and meat really were and then refused to eat animal products for decades. much to his dismay, he did have to introduce eggs and milk and whatnot back into his diet when he ran into a few nutritional deficiencies from veganism, but he's made his peace with being a vegetarian instead 🥦

he 100% does not remember his father outside of what he looked like. his dad (and aoife's younger brother) died very abruptly and super young of a heart attack when cathal was maybe three or so, and it's something that really nags at him. he's well aware there's nothing he can do about it, but he feels some strange mix of bad emotions that he never experienced a father-son bond, and that makes him 100x as serious about being a good father who'll be around a LONG time and just generally treating anyone younger than him well. he doesn't want anyone else feeling that type of loss 🥲

he actually writes an agricultural column in the local online newspaper and contributes to the county farmer's almanac lol. his big shtick is sustainability in agriculture and how new green technologies should be combined with traditional cultural approaches to the land so the earth doesn't die in, like, 10 years from excessive carbon emissions 🍃💚

he met his wife yvonne in a ballroom dance class! he was just bored one day in college and went to the class to do something new, and he immediately developed the biggest crush on the instructor. he just kept going back every week until he was brave enough to ask her out, and when he did, they hit it off. oh, and this is totally their thing - he has quite literally taken her dancing every weekend since they got together 😭😭😭

[aeide-thea]

help

forget 'uterus havers,' i just saw 'my penis holding coworkers' in the wild and i'm dying

[pepprs]

just went thru all of the notes on that post and like. YEAH. it’s a fucking wonder. like i should get to scream. i should get to lie down. i should get to have as many treats as i want for free.

[underthehedge]

I stg if anyone trots out the grandmother hypothesis you will end up in anthropology rant hell

Ok but, if you'd like to rant about it (or have a good rant you've already posted) I'd be interested in hearing it. Like, I was under the impression that the grandmother hypothesis was relatively well accepted, which, I guess it isn't?

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

[maktbah]

Book Summary: The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose Power and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

[jotun-appologist]

Legit cannot tell if the accutane is making me drowsy and fatigued, if its simply my anemia from being on my cycle, or the aforementioned cycle itself, or the also plausible idea that I am simply just heatsick because summer is starting and its getting warm here.

Or some combination

[onceuponaroast]

So here's a lukewarm take for you all:

I love the "Doesn't understand implied context and has no critical media literacy because you didn't pay attention in English class" joke as much as the next guy, but uh.... it's not entirely correct

Because I DID pay attention in my English class, and the one thing they did NOT tell us to do... was form our own opinions on the text.

And absolutely it could have just been my teachers! It is in fact highly likely that my teachers specifically were just particularly shit at their jobs, but the main thing I was regularly instructed to do was just. Memorize whatever the teacher told us and move on. In fact, we were encouraged to focus on the absolute bare bones of any given story and spend as little time or mental energy in any given text. We were taught novels the same way we were taught history and science; to memorize the facts and move on.

We were not encouraged to engage with the text. When I offered a different interpretation of a passage I was told it was wrong and to 'not think about it so hard.' My Least Favorite Teacher- who I am biased against for unrelated reasons but nevertheless- once docked me points because I suggested a passage could be interpreted as referencing pregnancy. This was, of course, wrong; because she obviously was referencing menopause. (???)

We had so many standardized tests crammed down our throats that we were pretty much forced to just memorize the basic plot setting and characters- and do absolutely nothing else.

This is not to say tiktok is not ruining our brains- it's not even to say that every half assed massive Corp movie made of crappy ai writing isn't ruining our media consumption- because they both probably are. But when you see kids not understanding things like subtext and unreliable narrators, please don't laugh at them. Please do not assume it is a failure on their part. They can not help what they are not taught.

[rosethorndragon]

Why did I get involved in a conversation? I suck at conversations. Multiple people aren't allowed to have valid opinions at the same time anymore. There are so many media out there that have problematic creators, but it was so long ago "it doesn't matter"

An example: Picaso, reportedly, was a misogynistic asshole who plagiarized art. But we aren't insisting all the art of his goes away very loudly.

Both my sister and I having our own hogwarts houses and being able to relate wizard wise to each other was one of the only things that kept us connected in highschool even if I had to cling to the writing of fan authors to keep myself interested as i felt there were too many plot holes and Fan Authors were more than happy to fill in the gaps. It's one of the few things we could say we had in common before my sister discovered Avatar the Last Airbender while on maternity bed rest. (beyond Lord of the rings, that I couldn't make through the first book for, either).

Now, because in this enlightened age, a grown woman doubling down on an older world view, (a view held by people, per my personal observations, often held by people who have experienced miscarriages or endometriosis) that isn't strictly wrong and can definately be handled more tactfully, decided to listen to the evangelical assholes and double dumb down. I can't have this thing that was a connection point with my sister during a shit time *because obvious I must be a TERF* for being fucking sentimental.

Fuck all that noise. I know enough weird and random things about biology that there is a significant chance that most trans people probably have their correct gender dna encoded in their brain cells, if not in other parts of their body as well, but still stuck with the wrong sex organ. This means there is enough hope that sooner rather than later, scientists will have the means to grow in a lab a person's correct set of organs. And since it would be *their* organs with *their* dna, there shouldn't be organ rejections, and they'll be able to experience everything entiled to their correct gender. Like a baby in every port, or PMS rage.

Now excuse me, I'm going to finish finding a black hole to throw myself in before someone tries to drag me off to force me to wear red because i live in texas, and my family, who is very kindly helping me pay for medical things, is insisting that I "don't have a mental disorder, you just have pms" so I get to go to a full gyno for a hormone test tomorrow and get to be put on a list now

[genderqueerdykes]

I've heard smoking can harm the effects of estrogen, does this apply to nicotine in general or just smoking?

thank you so much for asking this question, this is an extremely important matter to discuss! smoking while taking estrogen HRT is highly discouraged for 2 reasons.

the first is that smoking (nicotine) has been shown to completely neutralize and eliminate the effects of estradiol altogether:

nicotine reduces the amount of circulating estrogen one has in their system, which can lead to menopause in many individuals.

the second reason is that smoking nicotine can increase risk of life threatening clotting disorders like stroke, heart attack and pulmonary embolism:

many folks are not informed of the fact that estrogen hrt can cause increased risk for pulmonary embolism and heart complications- this is why it's vital to make sure you get testing done by a professional to make sure what levels will be safe for your body, or what complications you may face if you have blood clotting or heart issues.

i can't find too many studies that disseminate different types of tobacco usage (chew, vape, patches, etc.) but it does in fact seem like the nicotine itself, no matter how it's administered, greatly affects one's estrogen levels.

overall, i would say it would be best to completely quit using nicotine if you are planning going on estrogen HRT. not only will you see more of the effects you're looking for, but you'll feel better in general, and have a way reduced risk of stroke and heart attacks. there's little to no point in taking a medication that will become completely useless once administered. i had a problem with smoking cigarettes for a while and i wish you the best if you do, yourself.

i hope this information has been helpful, thanks for stopping by! good luck out there

[audentheplant-turtles]

Humans are the only land animals that goes through menopause!! We continue living long after we stop giving birth, which is so strange compared to the rest of the animal kingdom. (Even chimps, who we share 99% of our DNA with don’t do this.) It’s theorized that having grandmothers around gives us an advantage cuz it allows the babies and mothers a better chance for survival.

The others that go through menopause are pilot whales, narwhals, belugas, and orcas. Orcas are a female led society, usually led by the oldest of them. The grandmother teaches all the young ones where and how to hunt. They can live up to like, 90 years old and the males never leave their mothers side. Orcas are one of the most intelligent animals.

Another orca fact, we think that the dorsal fins collapse in captivity (when the top fin curves over) is probably caused by an increased temperature, making the fin less rigid. It could also be because they aren’t going as fast in captivity, which means there’s less pressure pushing against the fin keeping it upright.

That’s probably more facts than you want, but I couldn’t hold back more than this :)

goodnight! send me fun facts to read when i’m awake and i’ll reblog my favourite ones in morning