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- Few mammals actually get periods every month, or even at all, but why? Understanding what menstruation really is and why it happens could help ease symptoms & treat conditions that stem from the reproductive system.
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So, I actually have a degree in horse science and we had entire courses on horse reproduction and the differences between people and horses. There's surprisingly a lot of research crossover between the two species. What you're describing is that with humans, there's usually only one layer of tissue separating the fetus and the mother. In horses, there are six. So, where a pregnant woman drinks alcohol and it gets into the fetus' bloodstream, but with horses, what they consume doesn't directly come in contact with the baby. Don't get me wrong, there are still things you don't feed a pregnant horse, but it's usually not because the fetus will absorb it. The six layers offers better protection.
Horses also are at a lower risk of bleeding out during labor than humans are because of the layers, though the strain of labor can tear internal arteries in the worst cases, which a horse can die of.
Also, horses have 15 different blood types compared to humans with 4 blood types, so it's not uncommon for mare and foal to have different blood types, and even if the mother develops antibodies against the foal's blood type, it's really only a problem during the time when the mare is producing colostrum because the baby's gut is open and vulnerable to those antibodies. As opposed to when human mother and baby had different blood types and there can be serious problems with that.
But the human has a major advantage with the one layer, that being that nutrient and antibody exchange is heightened, where the baby will inherit the immunity of the mother. A horse has no way of getting that to the foal with the six layers, so foals get their immunity only when they consume the colostrum and are exposed after they're born. I'm sure there are more advantages of having the one layer, but it's 11 PM and I'm not going to rifle through my notebooks to find the answer.
I know most of you don't care, it's just fun to talk about.
I read most of it, thanks for sharing.
Actually I care. It was an interesting read. Thanks
I enjoyed reading about it
Definitely appreciate your effort in sharing this
super cool and interesting! i love learning about how the creatures on this earth work, always so intriguing. thanks for sharing
The more we know about periods, the less taboo the conversation would be. I hate acting like a drug dealer when going to a public bathroom cause holding an unused pad is “gross”
Hahahahahaha I am dead after reading your drug dealer comment.
It's sheer idiocy that talking about a natural process of menstruation is considered a taboo.
I don't think it's a taboo also what conversation?
Just conversations about periods in general. I’ve seen girls at my school get nasty looks by others just for asking for a tampon
@@2yearoldeastercandy935 but they're girls as well they can have an opinion about it also menstruating is like pooping or peeing they're natural stuff but talking about them that can be gross for some women
My gran would say "don't get attached until it quickens" and that a fetus is a "stubborn creature, hellbent on survival" so she figured, if it didn't stick around long enough to quicken, it wasn't healthy enough to survive being born. Always made sense to me. She liked old school midwife speak and never went in for medical jargon
She sounds like a Discworld witch :)
Quickening is a medical term, too
_There can be only one._
She was correct.
Wow your gran sounds like a powerful lady! Things must have been rough as a midwife back in the day - it looks challenging enough now!
As a man who can honestly say knows nothing about menstruation, I really appreciated this lesson. I know there’s so much more to learn, but this was a good breakdown of the basics and really helped to answer some questions. Thank you
Do feel bad there are females who do it every month and don't understand/weren't taught anything but the bare basics.
You’re a cool dude
I understand what you mean. We are not told nearly enough about our periods, or the other things that can come with them, such as Endometriosis. But, that does not mean someone else, who has nothing to do with that lack of proper information, should feel bad for it. I am not sure if you meant for it to come off this way, but it felt rather accusatory. We should always be happy when someone takes the time to learn about something, not make them feel bad for something they have no control over. Anyway, I hope you are doing well two years later!
@@vangu2918that’s why we got parents and school. I hope everyone can learn about it because the one time I put a thingy on the wrong way, blood went EVERYWHERE!!
*he knows
"contact with menstrual blood could ... kill hives of bees"
Menstruating over a beehive seems like a really bad idea %-)
FOR BEES
NO! NOT THE BEES!
😂
I'm grandmother and my mother, aunties, and maternal grandmother said the same things about "Ma tante Rose", "Les visiteurs", "La petite Sophie" or..."Le Débarquement"!!! and that special blood was insane, we were "impures" during periods (for all of them)
Mark Chapman you made me laugh so hard. It’s late, people sleeping...wyd friend? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how she's wearing red.
Me too!
No! It needs to be blue!! XD
Ha
Yeah red is very relatable
Do you suppose that was intentional?
I am very grateful to my host for tolerating my aggressive attempt at taking her life, in the end she expelled me and with a nearly boundless amount of generosity and forgiveness for my attack, instead preserved and nurtured my life until adulthood. Thank you host. I am glad I am here.
Wtf….
😬
Naw I'm still pissed at mine, like yall raw dog it one day and now I have to pay taxes? Rude
This is a comical way of putting it. I, too, am very thankful for my host’s forgiveness of me temporarily crippling her, and supporting me to adulthood, imperfect as this has all been.
LMFAO real@@ConstantChaos1
This is a better and more calm explanation for period than I've ever gotten before in my life. It's such a shame that it is a taboo topic. I can't believe research from the 90s is so terribly dated now too. We have a long way to go. It's just insane that we menstruate for a large portion of our lives and no one knows much about it, come-on now. Imagine, maybe if we could actually do research on it, we could regulate our bodies better when it happens.
It's a big part of *our* lives, but not lives of men. So they don't care and don't research it. Don't forget they didn't let us do science until extremely recently.
funding for "women's health" research continues to be among the lowest funded research of the medical fields, unfortunately
Menstruation for a larger percentage of a woman's life makes sense in the longer time it takes to raise a child to maturity.
As someone who had a long series of miscarriages before actually having a “keeper,” I find it a comfort to finally understand why some miscarriages occur. Doctors were never very clear about the why, other than to say “it happens, get over it.”
Btw her way of saying babys are a parasite is sientifcly wrong also I hope you do research instead of relying on this video and thank you.
@@nziom oh, try reading about how bedbugs are impregnated. There is a good chance you'll change your mind.
@@nziom Not so wrong. During pregnancy, immune system need to be less efficient. Mother's body saw their child as an intruder. And even if the mother lacks some nutrients or else, baby will have it so the mother will lack even more. Kind of parasitic.
@@nziom it isn't wrong description,there's levels of parasitism like many things in natural it's not a clear binary.
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Thank you for giving me more answers about my miscarriage than my doctor.
Damn geri.
I'm so sorry you had to experience that.
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I'm sorry you had that experience. I hate hearing how other healthcare providers have failed patients. I am glad this information eventually did reach you, but it should have been there at the time and from the people who were supposed to be helping you. I swear sometimes I think we need all new providers from younger generations where science is like a real thing. By far, the best care I've received as a patient was from my youngest doctors, nurses, and techs
My condolences 💔
I’m glad you found some solace and helpful information in this video though ❤️🩹
Speaking of “driving dogs crazy,” I have a service dog that detects heart rate changes. I am on a medication that stops it now, but he would know I was about to have my period a day or two before. He’d come up and..just like.. nose my butt. Now if I have any weird breakthrough he still does it before it happens. I think it’s pretty cool. And it makes sense considering dogs have such incredible noses for human bodily changes. A dog’s ability to actually smell chemical and hormonal changes in a human and tell them is fascinating.
The number of dogs I have met that will leave meat scraps alone in the kitchen trash but will get sneak out and tear up used pads...
Dogs are nasty. I don't know why but some of them absolutely love the smell of menstrual fluid.
@@LC-sc3enIt’s blood, they are predators, 😊of course they do. I once had the joy of pulling a tampon out of my dogs butt in front of God and everybody, lol. Used a leaf…
@@LC-sc3enDogs are not nasty, you creep. Animals behave different to us, doesn’t mean they are nasty. Cats love eating used q-tips and will dig them out of the trash too. Are they nasty? No. It’s just nature. Your definition of nasty is subjective.
Don’t remind me I’m still paying off the vet bill from when mine got into the bathroom trash can and ate a whole tampon
Have to get a new lock for the door too
This may be related to how dogs detect the fertile period of other dogs .
People got mad at me for referring to my babies while pregnant as the best parasites anyone could have lol
Why would you call your own children parasites🤨
@@iaw7406 some people just see some things differently from others. And we don't have to question it but we can respect it.
@@chief2665 some people just see some things differently from others. And we don't have to question it but we can respect it.
People usually feel offended when i refer to them, or us, or humankind, or their babies or kids, as primates 😁
@@chief2665 they stick to the body if the mother and feed on her blood and tissues 😁 they are like ticks 😄
Most mammals can't write, let alone use proper punctuation. That is why we have periods and they don't.
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I support this comment.
Does this mean that people who don't bother to use punctuation don't qualify as human?
Favorite comment 😂
Very on point. Those are the periods that "people" have.
My host called me earlier. We talk frequently, and once a year she regales me of my expulsion from her body.
Woman: holds flowers that were mostly likely plucked from the ground and no longer have roots
Flower: starts to decay
Man: "she has toxic sweat!"
😂😂😂
As a scientist he considered verifying his theory by touching flowers himself.
As a man he couldn't.
It could be even dumber than that.
Maybe the nurse was just in charge of discarding wilted flowers.
That just left me so very perplexed. Like, if I pick up a plant that ISN'T dying, does it mean I exude a cloud of aerosolized fertilizer?
Or did she pick up these flowers and they wilted WHILE HE WATCHED? Because in that case, I think menstrual toxins would be the least of his problems - dude literally just met Death and went, "This seems like a great opportunity for some misogyny!"
@@quiestinliteris Well, to be fair, the guys of this era were picking misogyny over legitimate research, so
@@nukeputin420 Omg, this is so stupid. Men of that era didn't hate women. Don't mistake stupidity and pseudo-science with misogyny. They were just stupid.
" He, of course it was a He. "
and Im dead lmao XD
Was the researcher behind the toxic sperm a woman then 😏
And people have periods... not women?
“Ransacked by the Fetus” I’m feeling a metal band name kicking in here
"Parasitic evacuation."Metal band name possibility?
Sounds like it would be a Cannibal Corpse song.
The original comment is CRIMINALLY underrated.
"Kicking in there" you say? 👀
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Period" is already a euphemism. So the topic is so taboo we need euphemisms for a euphemism...
What is the original word then!?
@@ladybookworms Menstruation. Period means literally "that period" so basically the same as "that time".
Get on depo shots, it stopped mine
@@pidgeshroom Why would you just assume that a stranger online wants their period stopped!? XD
Menstruation comes from the latin word menstruum and means monthly. I don't see much difference between saying monthly or that time.
All I know is I “ gave birth every month”. The pain was so intense. I had periods as long as 9 days and pain started 2 weeks before the period stated. So I had one week pain free a month. No defects, no endometriosis nothing. Very healthy. Finally went on the pill and it changed my life
What pill?
You have my sincere sympathy. I'm glad you found relief.
@@fenrirgg What pill do you think?. Troll.
@@argusfleibeit1165 am I supposed to know? I have no idea.
@@fenrirgg When people are talking about female reproduction, "The Pill" refers to.... wait for it now!!! The birth control pill. It has been termed this since the 1960s. Everyone who speaks English knows this. Are you not a native speaker? So either you are trolling, or there is something wrong with you.
I hate feeling like a criminal for sticking a tampon in my hoodie sleeve to change it. Like reaching into my bag and having the wrapper crinkle fills me with so much dread
The moment you try anf handle a menstrual product with absolute confidence in public without any effort to hide it, it's going to feel liberating.
@@aleenaprasannan2146 YES! In highschool I was sneaking to change my pad in the bathroom when a teacher came in and so nonchalantly changed hers! I heard the wrapper, the stickiness, the adjusting...all of that. No shyness at all. My eyes were opened! And since then I have not been shy to change mine. Almost all us ladies have to go through it. WHY be scared for someone to hear it?
That was me until around 20. I lost the shame along the way. Crinkle that wrapper loud and proud, your body is doing body things and there's nothing to be ashamed of.
I work in an office with guys only, usually 2-5 people, so if someone goes to the bathroom, it gets noticed.
Sometimes when I went to the bathroom and discovered that I am menstruating, I was ashamed of then going back to my office seat, get a pad, go back to bathroom, and then back to office. I usually grabbed a soda from the kitchen as an alibi, like "I did go to the bathroom and to the kitchen, I totally didn't go to the bathroom twice!"
But in fact, people don't even look up. They don't care.
Today I grab that pad like if it was soda, and make a third run for the actual soda.
Girl, grab that tampon, march your butt to the bathroom and do your thing 👑💅🏽
The crimson tide sounds like some sort of rpg characters attack
For second there I thought they were gonna say Crimson Peak and that the movie's name had a meaning I hadn't considered
or a college football team from Alabama. hahahahhahaha
I like to say the British are coming.
It sounds like a Tom Clancy Novel - the sequel to Red October. A Soviet Submarine thriller.
Imagine the animation of thia attack XD
More people need to understand menstruation. Period.
Yeah. Other than squicking some people there's no reason not to learn.
I see what you did there . . .
It's hard enough dealing with flat earthers... one thing at a time
@The Yangem
The floor is below.
If that comment was referring to the medieval days it would be a period period joke.
Wow, I had no idea how rare monthly menstruations was in mammals! The theory I learned in anthropology (1980s) was that monthly periods occurred as a social adaption to keep the males in the band interested and protective of the females year round. As opposed to just once a year or if you're Vulcan once every seven years.
What is real (AFAIK) about what you say is that women (and men) are erotically active not just when fertile (mating season in most animals) but all year round but as such that's not directly related to menstruation or even the period understood as ovulatory cycle. However there're some indications that women (and our close relative bobobos, who are sexually hyperactive even compared with humans) are more picky about whom they have sex with when fertile than when not.
I always thought it was to support the energy and intelligence for a human baby. This is even worse. Wow, more reasons to hate periods.
I believe you were conflating this with hidden estrus, which is *another* unusual feature of human reproduction.
Watching this makes me especially grateful for the existence of continuous birth control. No periods for years and I can't say i miss it!
Be careful birth control isn't very well studied, because its a new thing and the big pharma will do anything to take your money, even if its harmful.
This video reminds me that I should give my dear, beloved Host a call sometime. I moved far away from her when I grew up, but we still keep in touch. What can I say? I try to be a good and dutiful parasite. I sent her a preserved rose once, for Hosts' Day, that she still keeps in her home. My fellow parasites, remember to show your host how much you appreciate her, because she isn't going to be around forever.
😭😂
I'm glad my host visits me more often now. That way I can repay my host for all the nourishment I took from it and ask for more nourishment in return. :p
Found the Nightvale nativem
OMG...You wrote a so beautiful text !!! But a little sad, too.
I almost killed my host when i was inside of her, the last 3 months of pregnancy she spent in the hospital due to a pulmonary thromboembolism and threatened miscarriage. Along the years our relationship was far from perfect, resembling a war rather than a family. We exhibited polar opposite characters and it took a long time for us to understand eachother and for me to finally acknowledge that she actually loved me immensely. Dear parasites, miscommunication is at the root of all humanity's problems. Express your concerns as clearly as possible and maybe listen a little bit more, it makes a world of a difference to your relationship with others that you love or maybe will come to love through understanding them.
Why all the hush hush about periods? Never understood it. I had three daughters in less than three years so they were all close in age. One day the oldest came out of the bathroom and said "Dad, i just had my first period!" I responded with something along the lines of "Cool!" and had a little convo (which i don't recall). Less then two hours later my middle daughter called me to the bathroom, showed me a piece of toilet tissue with blood on it and exclaimed "Look, look, me too!". Just then my youngest daughter was walking by down the hall and i looked at her and said "If you get yours too i'm moving out!" About a year later the youngest came to me and asked, with a grin on her face, if she could now have my bedroom. For some reason, i made the connection immediately and gave her a "high five". Just a stage of growing up and a part of life.
Patriarchy, which is 30 to 60, 000 years old. Anthropology & history; not biology.
You are a great person. Thank you for helping your daughters not feel gross and alienated.
You're amazing. Your daughters are lucky.
Your last daughter is hilarious
@@brynawaldman5790 More like 10.000 years old
There are so many amazing points in this video! First, thank you for using nongendered language theoughout the video!
Second, if I wasn't 100% convinced I don't want anything to do with pregnancy, I am even more certain now!
Third, I've had multiple friends experience devastating miscarriages and it seems like I was the only one telling them it wasn't their fault! There's so much misinformation surrounding miscarriages and I wish my friends didn't have to carry so much guilt for it.
Yeah, I don’t understand why anyone would want to be pregnant. It horrifies me personally. I’m not grossed out by pregnant people, but there has never been a single part of me that wanted to even think about being pregnant. No-thank-you.
I feel the same way
I told a coworker once that most animals don't have periods and she was so offended and argumentative about it. I was confused so i just told her to Google it. we literally never talked again. 😅
Good 12 minutes, learned more than in my previous 65 years - I decided to watch because a few days ago someone asked "What topic is NEVER covered in Hard Core Science Fiction stories?" - my response (as I have read about 1000 of them) was 'Menstruation'. And as a guy I probably know as much as most guys about that subject, i.e. zero. So decided to watch this video - thanks!
Asked on AskReddit?
Never had a relation with a woman? They can talk, you know.
@@harrynac6017 Somehow it never comes up in conversation, even after 40 years of marriage 😊😊
It was mentioned in Harry Turtledove's novel Earthgrip. Young woman got abducted and had to deal with it during transit.
@@petuniasevan Thanks for the information, there is bound to be one or two among the 100,000 written, but it is conspicuous with its absence in the genre (and not very common in general literature as a whole, I think)
Even if science comes up with a solid explanation for the human menstrual cycle, I'm pretty sure we'll all still hate our periods.
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Maybe that'll help figuring out how to NOT have periods until you're ready/willing to reproduce ))) What will pro-life religious mass say then? =P
@@Annkelia Technically, we already know that. That's pretty much exactly what hormonal birth control does, as far as I know. It keeps the tissue from getting thick enough for the egg to implant. Many people no longer get their period if they have a hormonal IUD and you can take birth control pills for more than 3 weeks as well. The downside? Since they emit hormones, that can really mess with some people (like me) and have all kinds of side effects.
@@blue_smoothie only partially true. They're 99% effective not 100%. I still get periods though lighter and shorter, debilitating painful cramps are now normal pain.
@@blue_smoothie "people" don't get periods, only GIRLS & WOMEN do, please use the correct scientific & biological terminology, unlike the above video
We played a lot of breath of the wild in my house so we like to say "a blood moon rises once again"
That’s amazing 🤣🤣
lmaoo. I play botw as well, maybe I should start saying this XD
Thanks for the laugh!
I AM USING THIS
I'm similar but it's a Bloodborne reference rather than BotW, I'll turn around to my bf and say "the blood moon has risen over Yahrnam"
Two or three years ago I saw a video about how menstruation is still regarded in certain areas of the world. It was horrific 😱 From places where it was thought to give cancer to causing diseases (in some places women are not allowed to dispense of their used hygienic product in women's bathrooms) to cultures who consider it sinful (not just in the biblical sense) and, one place in remote Asia, women needed to retreat from society into some dark, little half-basement like building that was kept super hot (sauna like) for the entire duration of their menstruation, with barely food and water because they had to "repent" if I remember correctly (women actually died in those things, dehydration must not have helped). There were other examples, but those two stuck the most.
It just feels like they hate women. They want to punish them for something they don't understand.
The latter, if I remember correctly, was from Japan.
@@Pyrrah001 No, it was mainland Asia and up in the mountains ... not that Japan doesn't have mountains
@@killiansirishbeer You're probably right, i was thinking about nuns in Japanese religion. Regardless, not too surprising. I do think its fascinating how different religions see menstruation.
I'm so happy to be done with periods. 37 years of monthly bleeding was draining.
Purple Vegan Lady , AGREED!!!!
Purple Vegan Lady I can't wait.
37? That early.. U are so lucky! Well, I have got a long way to go😢22
@@hellenroeser7349 I had my period for 37 years. I finished menopause 2 years ago at 51. It took about 1 year.
Ba-dum-tis
I'm so showing this to my daughter, who should be getting her period any day now. She has so many smart questions about puberty and menstruation, I appreciate videos like these that we BOTH learn something from!
This seems a little too complicated for young ones. I'm no expert but I'm guessing there's material specifically designed for pre-teens.
@@micahgmiranda you don't know my family. We've been talking about bodies since my kids were five. We use anatomical names. We talk about hormones and puberty. We talk about babies. We talk about consent and relationships. It has been a convo that has evolved as they have grown, always age appropriate to their maturity levels. My policy is if they're old enough to ask, they're old enough for an answer. My daughter has already asked why the animals on grandma's farm don't have periods like we do. I didn't have an answer. Now I do.
Maybe don't judge peoples parenting choices online because you have absolutely no idea what their situation is.
Also kids and young adults are a lot smarter than adults give them credit for. Most teens can grasp this level of education no problem, adults just need to encourage learning.
@@VirgoCarnation exactly!
Dude, I’m 13 and I’ve been watching this channel (and comprehending it fully) since I was 10 😂
Can you do a video on why we have such a difference in menestral pain and what that even is? I would love more videos about periods in general they are very interesting but no one talks about them
Anyone else feel frustrated when you hear "3-7 day period"? My first period lasted over 2 months long and ever since then my periods have been 7-14 days (7-10 days heavy). I often become anemic. Of course I also suffer through almost, if not all of the symptoms that accompany menstruation. Being a woman can be so difficult 😪 ....and expensive. 😑
Because 3-7 days is the norm, everything else implies there might be some problem, and what you're describing seems like a serious problem and needs attention from a doctor, and I know these things are, even to this day, not taken seriously by some doctors and dismiss them as "a normal menstruation thing" but it's not, so if you haven't seen a doctor about it you definitely should and if they don't take you seriously see another one. Maybe you've already consulted a gynecologist and are getting some sort of a treatment, but from the comment I just read that didn't seem like the case.
@@copyrighted4382 Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my comment.
It is, unfortunately, my normal because I am currently 36 years old and have seen quite a few different doctors, many of which were gynecologists. I have been on a few different medications but I have found the IUD has been the most helpful with the majority of my symptoms. Perhaps there is more to the issue than what I have been told by the professionals but for now I'm living much more comfortably than before.
Seriously though, thank you again for reaching out and showing me people care. It means more to me than you could possibly know. 🥰
I hope you're enjoying your day wherever you are in this busy world.💗
Nurse: Oh, all these flowers are looking a little past their best, I better throw them out.
Doctor: I only ever see that nurse with wilted flowers...SHE MUST BE TOXIC!
I think it was maybe more men trying to reason how the effect on them might also be exerted on flowers and other living beings. Many women have extreme behavioral changes and mood swings during or before the period that..well...make men's mental flowers welt too :D Sometimes it's literally like having a devil vs an angel as a friend or girlfriend and they aren't really aware of it. I had to point it out to my mother age 9 that 'you always fight with daddy when you're almost on your monthly thingie'. And I saved an otherwise healthy relationship that way. She started tracking it in a little book and voila, she suddenly knew why everyone started to be so annoying a few days a month. Oddly enough there's no mention of the extreme psychological and immune system implications of menstruation and how that also has a negative impact, evolutionary speaking. I really wonder how all of the losses can stack up to a positive aspect for humans, while other species made different choices so to speak.
- she also turned me into a newt.
- a newt??
- I got better.
People look for patterns... This is why we need to have logical and scientific training, to avoid that kinds of bad reasoning.
@@Callimo Depends a lot on the person. Sometimes people do behave better after someone else yells at them "suck it up!", others are more dependant on feeling cared for.
@@Callimo Eh.
This really varies. As in, including in the same person. Sometimes, people giving it TOO much attention causes problems and sometimes it's being totally brushing it off that gives problems. Sometimes you need someone to go "Suck it up" and other times you just need someone to hug you and tell it's gonna be all okay.
PMS is hormone driven. Sometimes we can reason ourselves out of it, sometimes the world is ending. It's a rollercoaster.
4:30 when I was a small child, in the early 1970s, I found my mother's pads, asked her what they were all about, and then of course asked why women had to bleed every month. She said it was to get rid of the bad blood. That was my understanding of it until sex ed in school.
For a while, I looked back on that and thought that she had merely said that because it was an easy answer, easier than explaining it. I've come to realize that it probably was her understanding of it. She was born in 1941. Based on this video, I'm now convinced that this was the explanation that she was given as a child.
Note: with some Googling, I found that this continued to be a belief with people doing research into it right through the 1950s, when people started disproving it. My mother would indeed have grown up believing that the body was purging itself of toxins.
females give birth through the same blood,that means we all are toxins😂
It's funny that people believed, the place where a child is to grow could be a storage place for toxins.
This belief is not completely dead, some pseudo-science advocates say that if you menstruate you are building up toxins, and if you don't menstruate you are clean, even though menstruation is halted when a crisis strikes the body.
Well, most of us today think it’s okay to drive around by burning gasoline or diesel, so let’s not feel too good about ourselves.
@@Keithustus yeah, they thought that in the 40s too though.
It boggles my mind as to how the "flushing out toxins" idea ever managed to be taken seriously, much less stick around.
What happens to those toxins in people who don't menstruate, most notably people who are too old or young to menstruate, just happenstance-ingly during the time they'd be most vulnerable to poison buildup 😅
You should never joke about menstruation. Period.
OK, wait, back up: human embryos are especially prone to chromosomal abnormalities? That's even more surprising than the whole phenomenon of menstruation!!! We need an episode on this, please!
Yeah exactly
This just goes to show that humans are an evolutionary mistake.
My guess is that it might have something to do with how non-diverse we are genetically as a species (even compared the chimpanzees). We went through an evolutionary bottleneck early on and barely survived.
@@KatharineOsborneYeah, for being an enormously successful species with billions of individuals, our effective genetic breeding population is actually only in the tens of thousands… there’s some real crazy probability calculations to figure that out though that I can’t remember how I learned to run them off hand. I just remember being shocked that mosquitoes are also not terribly diverse when it comes to genetics.
Not surprising at all. Humans went through a genetic bottleneck and are quite inbred. The more inbred a species is, the more genetic abnormalities you get.
Oh, I' totally going to refer to myself as the host when I'm pregnant. "the parasite demands the host eat pickles dipped in nacho cheese!!"
LOL
I've referred to pregnant friends and relatives as host, while asking them how's their parasite going …
It gets a laugh.
That doesn't sound that bad actually...
Hank was trying SO hard last week to take back having said foetuses were like viruses...
😂 I did this too... people gave me the strangest looks when I referred to my bump as "the parasite".
I got my first period at around age 13 and I remember the girls in my friend group teaching me to hide the clean pad on the way to the bathroom. I felt ashamed for a natural process that I had no control over.
When I read about problems that bunnies, cats and dogs have with uteruses overgrown lining and eventually how they get possibly life threating infections I started to be glad we losing our lining every month 😅
That happened to my dog who was left intact until about 11 years old. Thankfully she recovered after an emergency hysterectomy and still with us at 16.
I just hope that better understanding of menstruation will give us better treatment options for menstrual problems. I've spent about 2/3 of my life dealing with an excessive level of pain every cycle. I don't want my kids to endure this as well.
You have my sympathies, my daughter suffers similarly and I hate seeing her go through that.
I have horrible cycles too, heavy and unbearable cramping ! I wish the body would just stop after we are done having babies.
Bruh my sisters got the same. Its ridiculous the medical advancements made for the male anatomy but menstrual problem and better birth control pills aint happening
Have you been checked for adenomyosis? It turns out I have that, makes my periods a bloodbath.
My wife use to take days off work because her pain was so bad, she got diagnosed with policystic ovaries and started taking birth control pills specific for that (mileva) and the pain stopped, she became regular as a Swiss clock and now that she uses a menstrual cup, she doesn’t even need pads anymore... it’s been life changing for her as she has told me, I don’t know if it’ll help you, but maybe regulating hormones with birth control pills might be an option for you...
"Shark Week" remains my favourite euphemism for periods.
oh yup, i thought i was the only person who called it that lol
She didn’t mention this one, but I always say that I “have The Curse”
@@124Nightwing I ALWAYS hated that one! I am NOT, nor have I EVER been cursed, just because I had menstrual flow! It is a scientific fact that women have menses, and calling it negative names only increases the taboo over it! So just STOP, already, with the "curse" 🐂💩!
My personal favorite is Japan’s attacking
Now do they call it that because it _feels_ like a shark is in your uterus,
or because you bleed like you've been attacked by a shark,
or because you act like a shark sometimes?
I very much appreciate the person in this video not constantly saying “woman” and “women” while talking about people who menstruate.
SAME and the amount of commenters complaining about it is disheartening.
That doesn't explain why it has to hurt so bad. Many women, including me, get tortured with level 6-9 pain every month without fail.
It's expensive & annoying
Ikr. Like you gotta buy pads/tampons/diva cup, it never fails to start when you're wearing nice underwear that your cycle starts, you ruin underweat and occassionally pants (even using hydrogren peroxide that stuff won't come out.), plus you need midol, and well food. (Atleast for me, I get hungry af on my period.)
Get on the pill, then
@@koppadasao I'm on the pill. It doesn't solve everything or work for everyone. I will admit. My periods are less harsh and easier to track.
Koppa Dasao the pill can cause strokes, depression, bone density loss, cancer and annoying side effects like constant mild bleeding, pregnancy, breast pain etc etc... it’s NOT the answer.
@@koppadasao birth control isn't free for everyone
I learned more about menstruation in this one video than I did in three quarters of health classes between 5th and 12th grade. Probably in part because they would separate the boys from the girls because boys don't need to know about girl stuff. >.> Knowing what is happening better equips us to be more understanding when it happens.
Separating the boys and the girls definitely doesn't help, but the girls generally aren't given great information on the topic, either.
This is why I love this channel. Kind of sad that female health education has been suppressed so much in History that if they took the time most of these medical phenomenon would probably be explained by now.
This is something I went through every time I got pregnant, I was even placed on anti organ transplant drugs to try and halt this happening, now I understand a bit more as to why I miscarried over 20 or more. Does it make me feel better about the miscarries, nope, just makes me understand why.
Thank you for taking the time to researching this subject, back in the 80’s and 90’s there was never much on the subject, when I went on the IVF program I already had 6 eggs on each side lined up ready to go. 12 eggs and not one of them survived the first trimester the next time around when we used the drugs to make the eggs ready for harvesting there were 23 eggs produced again not one of them survived.
There are not many women out there like me, who’s bodies treated the embryos to the point of rejection, of the 3 full term pregnancy that I did manage to get through, two were still born and one only took a few breaths before passing away. Of the rest of my eggs that had been harvested, they were sent to the lab to be tested and they all failed but at least they have helped them to find answers for other younger women in the future.
Minor correction: Even in humans, the parent and fetus never actually mingle their bloodstream. They pass very close, close enough to allow nutrient/waste exchange, but each maintains their own distinct circulatory system.
Exactly - that's why it's so important to assess the Rh factor of both the mother and the embryo. They'll not really mix but for a few minutes during labor, but that minor mixing can be fatal to later embryos should the mother develop antibodies to the Rh factor she's not caring
"Squeeze-back." 😁
They made a video explaining it
Basically fetus s villi swim inside tiny gayser/pool/spring (s) of uterine blood.
Which makes placental transplantation???? impossible/deadly/useless if we don't find a way to stop time, while doing the operation, or finding out where that flash guy is and making an obstetrician out of him. Aaaaand don't know how the planting part of the operation will ever be possible even with flash.
She didn't say the fetus contacts the bloodstream, she said the placenta does, which is not the same. The baby is born, and then the placenta has to be pushed out-after birth it's called. So yes, the Fetus doesn't make direct contact with the blood steam, the placenta does.
Even sensitive subjects get handled openly & honestly. I had no idea that human cycles were very different from other mammals. It is kind of good that there is a way the body detects unviable embryos early on.
i remember reading/hearing in the 1980s, that only 1 in 14 of all fertilised eggs gets to the point of detection as a pregnancy.
the female productive system actually has several checks to make sure you have viable offspring, I think this channel did a video on it, I think the title was something like "why you weren't the fastest swimmer" or something
The fact that periods are considered "sensitive subjects" and the downvotes the video has tells you all you need to know about how stupid many people are.
The first time I heard anyone refer to a fetus as a "parasite," it was Gregory House in that one early episode of House MD that everyone who has watched the show will recall. I was in high school at the time, and I immediately went "OHMYGOD HE'S RIGHT."
I deeply love that you called fetus a parasite. That's perfection. I also love your gentle explanation of miscarriage, as part of the half of the population with a uterus, and also having had a miscarriage and a maturing fetus that recently started school, thank you for this video.
Only women have uteruses, just say as a woman. Can't change your DNA, only cosmetically mutilate yourself
You don't actually refer to your child as a maturing fetus. Right.
@@EmperorPrinc3 obviously not. But I figured it'd be funny since she's still a toddler lol
I like to call it my monthly subscription to lucifer's waterfall, bit of a mouthful but it always gets funny reactions
Lol I gotta remember that
I like "I've fallen to the Communists". Makes me laugh every time
I'd like to cancel my subscription
Ha. Ha.
That's gotta be the worst subscription box ever!
I want to thank the person and all the heroes who make quality subtitles for videos. Y'all deserve a hug of appreciation from me for all your work. No matter how shitty, professional, or fun quality types of videos it concerns. It always makes me able to focus, get more engaged and absorb as much details/information as possible from the videos.
This! I actually won't watch a video anymore unless it has proper subtitles
I’m so happy this video was made. It’s a great breakthrough in understanding ourselves as a species 😊 Yay, science and open mindedness (boo, misogyny and close mindedness).
A lot of people in the comments are literally admitting they don't think of women as people. I wish I could say I was surprised.
I was really lucky that my dad was super cool about the period thing. At first he was kinda freaked out about it, but he got over it. Buying pads? No problem. Need pain killers? Great, here's some ibuprofen.
My husband is the same way.
It's really important that we demystify menstruation. It's going to go a long way to get rid of stigmas against women. It's a bodily function. It's not poisonous. It's just something women go threw every month.
Thanks for making this video.
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It still disgusts me in a physical manner thinking about even. I've always been bad around blood so ya I ain't gonna be doing that.
@@TheReal_ist No one is asking you to look at it. Just that you stop treating it like it is some kind of mysterious and dangerous body fluid.
Trust me, most women wish they didn't have to look at menstruation blood either but we don't have a choice...
I was raised the same way (Lots of sisters also makes it rather mundane). I never had problems running errands and picking up stuff to help them through "that week" and now I do likewise for my wife.
Also remember that some men get periods too. And some women don't have periods. Hence why SciShow didn't say "why do women menstruate?"
This is the most I’ve ever liked Olvia. When she said “weird poops” I was like YesssGirl
I really like how the hosts talk about the NATURE, human Nature and human's body functions. Olga too, and she's a woman. This only natural ,not gross, after all. I'm with illness ,getting old and these explaination makes me better and without shame. Excuse my english...
Excuse me...not OLGA, but OLIVIA; IN France and maybe QUEBEC that sorts of things are TABOO in conversations!!! THANK YOU AGAIN. Stay home, keep youselves alives, american friends.
You know she's reading a script written by a man..
Also I'm curious how is your poopoo weird during that time?
They didn't explain what and why the weird poops are. Can you educate me about that?
They can say what they want, but I'm still convinced that periods are designed to punish us for being human 😂
thanks, i always wondered about this. and as someone who had had several miscarriages, i appreciate how you handled this issue.
Me: I hate menstruating
TheSciShow: posts this video
Me: nice try, but I still hate my periods
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me too.I was never so happy as when I said goodbye to the whole miserable nightmare that is PMS.
Don't menstruate then. I stopped a few decades ago. Talk to your doctor about options. I just take the pill every day instead of taking a week off. You don't need to take a week off... that cycle was created to placate the catholic church. Google an old article by Malcolm Gladwell called "John Rock's Error" and prepare to have your mind blown.
@@montyollie yeah it's completely healthy and safe to just skip that Placebo week. From what I've heard most doctors won't let you do that though so be prepared to fight if that's what you're looking for
Be careful with the pill. Hormones are double edged blades.
There are also other methods to interfere with menstruation in non-definitive ways. But there is no mean that fits all!
You need to learn by yourself and discuss with several younger gynecologists. Discuss not trying to impose/request from your doc something you read online!
And remember that balance is the key in everything.
There’s got to be a better way to let me know that I’ve dodged the pregnancy bullet once again.
I got my fallopian tubes removed so pregnancy is out of the question. Unless aliens impregnate me or something lol.
Thank you very much for this great and educational video.
Super interesting, have been wondering about this for ages
As someone specialized in researching this, the "choosy uterus" (aka "natural embryo selection") is definitely one of the reasons. As far as results suggest, only the decidualized stromal cells are able to sense and respond to the embryo quality which is not limited to chromosomal anomalies but also other quality issues can be sensed. One of the current hypothesis is that some women that have fertility problems is because their uterus is too much choosy. On the opposite side, a woman with a uterus less selective will get pregnant easily with low quality embryos that will end as early abortions.
The other hypothesis of why the menstruation is that it is a mechanism to precondition the uterus to tolerate the oxidative stress and inflammation associated the implantation of the embryo, the formation of the placenta and the growth of the fetus. This is specially important in organisms with our kind of placenta (the most invasive one). There is evidence that says that what happens in a circle condition the next one.
That second theory is so interesting! Thanks so much for the addition!
Thx that was an interesting read
So cool to hear from an actual researcher! Fascinating. Thank you for commenting. Can you explain that last part a little more though? What do you mean circle condition?
@@Daymickey I think they're saying what happens in the previous menstrual cycle conditions the uterus for the next cycle
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I talk pretty openly about menstruation and pads and cups and stuff like that... It didn‘t gross out anyone yet. I‘m so glad I live in a time and place where that’s possible.
This understanding and study is the first sign of any hope to better the issue. I pray we continue to learn so we can help people who need it.
I was so parasitic they had to cut me from my hosts body! Something she will never let me forget lol
I can't be the only one who's slightly amused at the fact that she's wearing a red shirt, am I?
See, I see a red shirt as a target. Too much Star Trek.
I'd not even thought of it like that! 😂
Daniel Bickford Oh I’m very amused! Excellent choice!
I bloody love that red sweater. Period.
Or are those too many puns?
Was scrolling down to the comments for that very reason
As a biologist, I think it's amazing how the female reproductive system adapted so quickly in recent history. The female pelvis (and the birth canal) became much slimmer since humans began to walk on two feet. At the same time, the human brain expanded meaning that the heads of fetuses became much bigger. In order to cope with these issues, humans give birth to very premature babies (other mammalian babies can walk within minutes, it takes us months! - Would love to make a video about this myself!). Isn't itcool how we can observe evolution in our bodies?
It's PEOPLE not female you privileged misogynistic pig .
Yuval Noah Harari made several videos about this. He talks about it in his book and TH-cam series called "Sapiens"
Yes the idiot before me is right
You have to say people (not female) or else the libtards are gonna come after you and burn you at the stake like they used to do with books
@@danielalexandre89 Right ?...wait
It’s also pretty weird that we can have this discussion over an exchange of electrons (yes, that’s a little simplistic), and yet clearly there’s still a lot we don’t understand about our own reproduction.
This was extremely interesting. Thank you.
Thank you for the education! 🙏🏾
The long history, even continuing today, of cultural and religious taboos surrounding menstruating females makes me sad because of how they make them out to be untouchable and dirty, and alienate and even endanger them. I hope that changing attitudes end these taboos soon.
In the West people are starting to remove women from periods :/ just look at the title of this video, even it is guilty.
@@lip.w.8910 trans and intersex people exist, therefore not all menstruating people are female. Most are of biological female sex, but not all are of female gender.
another reason why I dislike religions so much
@@lip.w.8910 omfg thank you I found at least one comment about it. She even opened with humans have been getting their periods. Women. The word you want is women.
@@ooooneeee the title are like this not because of inclusiveness of trans people, but because it is comparing between human and animals. And no, people who menstruate must be biologically female (or extremely rarely, intersex) Gender is a social construct, sex is not, this is science we are talking about.
"Shark week"
Oh I like that one.
Yeah. I'm saving that one for later. Lol
I'm surprised I haven't heard that one before
Sharknado sounds better and is more descriptive of the funnel shape of the vagina.
It's called shark week(aside from the obvious blood) cause the uterus is shaped like a shark's brain and the feeling of wanting to bite heads off is strong. And yes I'm female.
I feel like a lot of my guy friends would get lost by this, might have to lead/follow with "There's blood in the water..."
This reminds me of the comic, Bert Kreischer's, and his 'Daughter Had A First Period Party'. How his youngest thought people name their periods because her older sister calls hers 'Flo'. And the velvet cake deal called 'Jason.'
Very good information. I have always wanted to know.
5:06 Aight, that hypothesis is wack. When was it published, '20's?
"Paper published in 1993"
.....
My mom told me that making soup while menstruating will make the soup spoil quickly. This was a few years ago! It's freaking weird!
Thats what my mom, a nurse practitioner, told me
Only soup?
@@ladybookworms only soup *shrugs*
Exactly!
so, it's so ladies can get pregnant, but not TOO pregnant.
Just a little bit
Check out the segment on getting preggers after your already preggers. Cruel twist of biology and timing
Women can have a little pregnancy, as a treat.
to expel unviable offspring.
@@davidberry7115 such a lovely treat, a monthly gift.
Loved the depth of this one
I know I’ve wondered this, as a pet owner, but as a male have never explored this question beyond simply wondering. I am curious though. Thanks for the video!
I am in my upper 20s, have had a child, have been menstruating since the age of 14, have been sexually active since 16, & yet I myself still get squeamish discussing most things regarding the female reproductive system. I have no doubt that it is due to social programming. Thanks for videos like these, which help me ...& the rest of the world... work past it!
It's always people like you that are reproducing too so it's a never ending cycle
Study science and be enlightened. Watching video like these is a good start.
"Did I overhear you say "Perry"? Aww that's a sweet name!"
"No, that's just short for *parasite*, we haven't chosen a name yet. ☺️😀"
*Parasite*
1. an organism that lives in or on an organism of *another species* (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
It's by definition _not a parasite._ 😀
Axodus Thank you. That term was really bothering me
@@Axodus *Metaphor*
1. You're no fun 😜
j/k, accuracy and knowledge are valuable 😁
@@TragoudistrosMPH thank you.
@@Axodus Okay, but the fetus gets priority access to calories, vitamins and minerals, so a pregnant woman can end up with serious deficiencies and get really sick. This is a big concern during pregnancy, which is why it's so important for pregnant women to take prenatal vitamins and make sure to eat enough food and monitor their weight. As you can see, the fetus's growth absolutely is at the mother's expense, as it is literally taking the nutrients that would have gone to mom, even if she needs thems too.
Thank you for normalizing a natural human process.
I did just found you and I love free educational videos! This was brilliant. I think my sons and daughters need to watch this!
If men would menstruate, it would have been explained around the time the pyramids were built
Al L friendo. mate. dear. are you aware that in hunter-gatherer cultures both men and women hunt and gather?
@Al L uh, what's in the name? did you have a seizure? Just previously you asserted that women were bleeding from their vaginas while men were gathering and hunting food, so I have to admit I'm a little bit confused now.
@Al L gotcha
Yeaaaah... no. Remember, up to the 19th century we were still commonly treating people with leeching, bloodletting and enemas for anything but what these treatments are useful. So I think there would have been stupid explanations and treatments for "male menstruations". Women in those times might have more benefited than suffered from the lack of "medical" attention and treatment concerning this particular phenomenon.
@Al L I'd check out dr. Chris Knight, dr. Camila Power, dr. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (e.g. Mothers and Others, 2009), among others, who basically argue (quite convincingly) that human cooperation, society, intelligence and language/culture are probably due to female evolutionary pressure for survival and reproduction, forcing us men to become more social and intelligent, and to help take care of (each others) kids. Knight and Power specifically incorporate menstruation as an important part of this development, but this is more of a strong hypothesis at the moment.
Also, in hunter-gatherer societies meat (mostly a male thing) accounts for less then 50% of overall calories and gathering (mostly a female thing) for more than 50%. However, men fail in obtaining meat most of the time (since they want the hardest, trickiest kill for prestige) making female gatherers more important for a constant food flow.
So, yeah, human development and evolution is feminist, bro. No civilization (even if that were purely man-made) without cooperation and language.
Say "spontaneous decidualization" 10 times
Olivia: Hold my beer
duodecalization works too.
*hold my tampon
Yeah that's not a stupid, tired, overused meme.
That's the real take-away here ;P
AMAZING VIDEO! GAWDS, I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
I've always wondered this! Thank you
Some of the ‘mythologies’ around mensuration really showcase the bad track record humanity has had with half of its members...
We believed in gods.
except it doesnt, other ideas about how the body worked were equally wrong at the time..
But to be fair, isn't that weird that practically ONLY we humans seem to have this problem? No other animals truly menstruate, it's really special about us. Isn't that weird? For real.
@Scott Whatever What's the problem with periods in Islam?
Edit: this is coming from a Muslim woman btw.
@Scott Whatever: So do Christians, if they actually followed their 'Bible'.
Can we start calling labour "parasite ejection" now?
"That's it, host, keep pushing, the parasite has almost ejected"
"Happy Host Day mum, thanks for ejecting me, love from your parasite"
There's more... I'm just resisting the urge to continue... 😬
Yes please do. As a former parasite, I am amused.
"We're finally having a parasite" "Congratulations on becoming a host"
"Say ma-ma" "Host" "Ma-ma" "Host"
"Go to your room, parasite! How dare you talk to your host like that!"
"I don't have to listen to you, you aren't my real host"
"I now pronounce you transmitter and wife. You may now kiss the host"
@@fuzzybutt4520 The "Ma-ma" "Host." one totally got me hahahahahaha! XD
@@fuzzybutt4520 it's noteworthy though that the parasitism doesn't end after ejection. It's final insidious rouse is to release a boatload of oxytocin hormone in the mother during birth, making her fall in love with it. Now she'll support it forever externally and willingly because her mind is locked to the parasite.
Excellent video!
Amazing update to my outraged knowledge thanks one of the best videos I have ever watched
I used to call it the blood train. My boyfriend'd be like "thats gross dont call it that!" and Id be like "TOOT TOOT!! BLOOD TRAIN!!"
You're an absolute genius
Wat?
"THE BLOOD TRAIN HAS NO BRAKES!!"
@@kaycee1076 TOOT TOOT!
I call it the red tide :D my bf laughs everytime
When I was like 9 I thought that you had your period every day until menopause. That would SUCK!
Speaking as someone who had their period every day for 3mos straight due to a medical issue, I can verify that it is hell
@@lizardfishbird Ditto that. It sucked.
@@lizardfishbird had mine for about a year, it was heavy too, til we could finaly see a doc about it.
@@lizardfishbird wow I thought my first period was hell
I thought you only had to deal with it for 4 years every month. Wouldn't that be nice
Doing my part as a menstruator to say if you are tired of using tampons/pads and wanna make your life easier, consider trying a menstrual cup! It's hella convenient, saves you money long term and is good for the environment too :)
I'm a big fan of them too. There's usually a warranty on them so you can try and return if you don't like it, so no reason not to give it a go. I've never calculated how much I saved over the years because of these but over 25y it has certainly been good for the environment and my pocketbook
Anything that goes in scares me😭
Can't really fit it in, hurts like hell to try. Maybe has something to do with not having sex yet. Even putting on a tampon feels really uncomfortable and I can only fit the smallest ones. I am in my mid twenties btw so no one starts saying I need to grow more.
@tick_tack I didn't have sex before using one but I was also using tampons before with no issues. Cups definitely aren't for everyone but it works really well for me and so I try and promote the benefits to those that may not know it was even an option 😊
@@tick_tackhave you tried playtex sport tampons?
I'm a trans guy who jokinly claims to be two penguins in a trenchcoat. I now want to be a penguin.
Lol
Hahaha 😂 🐧+ 🐧