I cried after I saw the clip of Fulani terrorists taking turns to rape their victims
Woke up crying this morning.
I am not okay, these women are never going to be okay again, Nigeria is not okay, and the leaders have failed us.
In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.
What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.
The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.
The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.
PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.
A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.
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I read it somewhere "We romanticized the wrong organ the stomach is more emotional than the heart" and it feels so true. We feel butterflies in our stomach and when we're sad we lose our appetite our stomach gets affected by emotions way more than we realize.
I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned.
Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave.
Two were infants.
One was a 4-year-old child.
And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore.
What shocked me even more is this:
Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria.
72%.
And hardly anybody is talking about it.
The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground.
Guys… this matters.
Please watch this interview.
Please pray for these families.
And PLEASE share this everywhere you can.
At this point, WE are the media.
WE are how people find out.
WE are the distribution network.
If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention.
Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.
Find audacity. There is nothing that will help you more in this life than audacity, find it, let it push you to do things , to silence the noise , to go back to school, to leave the country, to start a business, to do things . To fight for your life.
My Prof asked: Why are some humans lactose intolerant?
I said: Lactase enzyme deficiency, Sir.
He replied: No. We’re just the only animals weird enough to keep drinking milk after infancy.
Mind blown. 🤯
Biologically, lactose intolerance isn't a disease... it’s the mammalian default!
Lactose Persistence is actually the mutation.
Why is there no Period store??? A one stop shop for all your flow needs???
It would have pads, diva cups, tampons, and underwear!
ENDOMETRIOSIS RELIEF and NSAIDs.
Birth control options: the pill, an IUD, and the depot shot.
CHOCOLATE.
OPEN 24hrs.
My secondary school classmate was kidnapped in Ekpoma, Edo state alongside three of his friends on Easter Sunday. On the 9th of April three of them were released leaving the kidnappers with just scott(my classmate). Reason being that…..
while the Nigerian govt are reintegrating 740 brazen teřroriśts back into the society..
Mrs. Calista Ifedi was arrested by DSS in Enugu on Nov 23, 2021, for allegedly selling food to IPOB members.
Detained without trial at Wawa Barracks, she was denied medical care and di6d in custody around 2023-2024. DSS recently admitted her death.
Until this day she has not gotten justice.
We remember, never to forget.
This woman exposed the bread that has stayed in her shop for weeks and still looks fresh.
She didn't mention any name, but the bread company that's guilty served her papers.
This is something NAFDAC and government should take very seriously.
Let's amplify this until the right thing is done.