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.
Life is already stressful, I don’t need my dramas to feel like a school assignment. Give me beautiful people, soft lighting, and let me enjoy in peace.
For the record, with the sole exception of Orthodox/Coptic Christianity in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt, pretty much ALL the religion practised in Africa today is a foreign sponsored psy-op.
It is not by accident that all these Evangelical Christian cults, Charismatic movements, prosperity gospel churches and Wahhabi/Salafi Islamic movements that did not exist in 1960 suddenly burst into prominence a decade later and took over the entire continent.
The Christian and New-Age ones were funded and aided by the US State Department, and the Sunni Muslim ones were funded by the Saudis and later the Qataris under the direction of the same US State Department. All of your Jehovah's Witnesses, Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Rosicrucians, Grail Movement, Cherubim & Seraphim Church, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Mountain of Fire, Winners Chapel International, Christ Embassy, Izala Movement, abbl - they are all ultimately working for the same people, whether you like to hear it or not.
Those "Islamic extremists" that you hate? Both their religious leaders and yours are owned by the same people. Those "Christian infidels" that you look down on? Both your imam and their prosperity preacher clown work for the same people. You are all just a bunch of black Africans whom someone in DC decided to thoroughly and fundamentally mess with on every psychological and spiritual level, for the sole purpose of winning the Cold War. Your religion was never yours - it was just a calculation in somebody's war game.
That's why your Jehovah Witness 'governing body' tells you not to vote, join your military, or involve yourself in politics because war is Satanic and "you are no part of the world," yet the same Jehovah Witness corporate organisation invests and holds shares in weapons manufacturers and defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. They tell you not to involve yourself in professional sports or entertainment, and they kick you out for having sex outside marriage, but they hold shares and invest in Walt Disney and TimeWarner, which is a big player in the porn industry. All of this is publicly viewable information from their IRS Form 990:
https://t.co/herKBkBSAJ
"Your religion/church/movement" that originates in the USA or Saudi Arabia, which somehow migrated into Africa in the 1970s and exploded into mainstream popularity overnight was never "yours", and you know very little about it.
You are just a pawn in someone else's game.
Religion... Religion, this thing called Religion, when we are ready, we will address it.
The Chinese understood the game.
In the 1950s, Mao's government and the Church in China
established, The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) which aimed to create a "self-governing" church independent of the Vatican and foreign influence.
Mao persecuted christians loyal to Rome,as he viewed papal authority as a form of foreign imperialism and infiltration.
He said: I won't be here as the leader of this country while some man in Rome will issue instructions that will shape the thoughts and opinions of my people.
For better context, read: Mao, The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
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