Allyssa

[Allyssa @_allyssaaaaa]

#VogueChallenge

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

i will not be gaslit into believing that, that hyrox lady is some inspiring example of perseverance and overcoming adversity. she is disgusting. that was disgusting. and genuinely one of the sickest displays of individualism i’ve seen in a long time.

[🇿🇦 Bumfluffski 🇿🇦 @Bumfluffski]

My wife currently has two patients in ICU that jumped out of a moving Uber because they were being kidnapped.

They weren't in the same vehicle.
They don't know each other.
They weren't going/coming from the same area.

The only thing they have in common is that they are women.

[Justice, Crime Prevention and Security @CrimeWatch_RSA]

BODY IDENTIFIED | 38-year-old missing runner, Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo’s body was positively identified today at the Germiston mortuary by her family.

[Luna M ✨ @tiredfeminist_]

Finding you guilty because you didn’t greet😭

[Sara @kunstpw]

Novas perspectivas que mudam vidas

[Allyssa @_allyssaaaaa]

@MarcioLelis_ And then?😂

[† olǝqɐʞ † @purehijabey]

Kimchi out 🇰🇷🚫, chakalaka in 🇿🇦💎😭🙏🏽!

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[Zakiyah @ZakzR]

3 years ago I took out a new credit card to travel overseas for my 30th birthday. I didn’t have the money to travel but I desperately needed that trip.

I only paid that thing off and closed it today 😭😭😭 3 whole years ayj.

Worth it tho 🥲 would defs do it again.

[Sinister in the Presidency @AmandaBRinquest]

salary increases

[marang setshwaelo @marangdream]

SBWL an effective Mamdani-esque mayor for beloved Jozi-burg!🥹

[🏷️ @AntagoniZt_]

Yho, as a nation we are IN HELL with spam calls 😩

[FisherThem @_uXola]

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[B 🦋 @DontWorryBoutB]

honestly…damn that’s so real.

[Manosai @manosaie]

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

[` @lisaawrites]

when maya angelou said

“have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

[Chaté 🧊🦉 @Chatnovski]

Huge part of friendship is being available and showing up. You’ll realize it’s genuine when it’s reciprocated.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[Mirah 🇿🇦 @mirah_japhta]

Oh! SA rats🫂♥️🇿🇦