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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.
🚨 9-YEAR-OLD OVERDOSES ON THC GUMMIES AT SCHOOL — CAN’T SEE, SPEAK, OR HEAR — DOESN’T KNOW WHO HE IS
A mother films her son in a hospital bed… screaming, crying, completely disoriented.
She says he came home from school unable to speak… unable to hear… not knowing his own name or where he was.
• Allegedly given THC gummies by another student
• Severe hallucinations and confusion
• Fighting doctors and his own mother
• Heart rate going up and down
• Doctors say he’s “extremely high” and has to ride it out
He’s drooling, panicking, completely out of control.
This didn’t happen at a party.
This happened during a normal school day.
Now the video is going viral and parents are asking how something like this even gets inside a classroom.
If this can happen during a normal school day… what else is getting through?
My Grandparents Were Married For 60 Years.
One Day I Asked My Grandfather:
“What’s The Secret To Loving The Same Woman For A Lifetime?”
He didn’t laugh.
He didn’t say “communication.”
He didn’t say “date nights.”
He looked at my grandmother, who was in the kitchen, and said:
“You don’t love the same woman.”
That confused me.
He said, “She changes every few years. And if you don’t update the way you love her, you lose her.”
He told me the girl he married at 22 wasn’t the same woman at 30.
Motherhood changed her.
Loss changed her.
Time changed her.
“At 40,” he said, “she needed respect more than romance.
At 50, she needed partnership more than passion.
At 60, she needed presence more than promises.”
And every time she changed, he had a choice:
Complain that she’s “not like she used to be.”
Or learn her again.
He said the biggest mistake men make is this:
They fall in love once.
Then stop paying attention.
“Loving a woman for a lifetime,” he told me,
“is deciding to stay curious about her.”
Not assuming you know her.
Not freezing her in the version you met.
He leaned back and said something I’ll never forget:
“If you stop studying her, someone else eventually will.”
Sixty years.
Not because it was easy.
Because he kept relearning her.
One night I asked my mom how she knew my dad was “the one.” She didn’t say butterflies. She didn’t say grand gestures.
She said, “There was a year I wasn’t okay.”
She told me after I was born, she felt overwhelmed all the time. She stopped talking as much. Stopped laughing as loudly. She said she felt guilty for not being her usual self.
And my dad didn’t demand the “old her” back.
He just started doing small things.
He would wake up earlier to pack her lunch.
He’d fold the laundry without announcing it.
He’d sit beside her on the couch and just hold her hand without asking a single question.
She said one night she finally cried and told him she felt like she was failing at everything.
He didn’t interrupt.
Didn’t give a motivational speech.
Didn’t say “but you have so much to be grateful for.”
He just listened.
And the next week?
He didn’t treat her like she was fragile.
Didn’t bring it up during arguments.
Didn’t use it as proof that she was “too emotional.”
He loved her the same. Calm. Steady. Normal.
My mom looked at me and said,
“That’s when I knew. Love isn’t the loud days. It’s who stays gentle on the quiet ones.”
And suddenly their 20+ years together made sense.
Real love doesn’t panic when you’re not at your best.
It adjusts.
It waits.
It stays.
This woman saved for months to get away from her abusive husband. This uber driver took her to the airport and his excitement for her is contagious. Love to see it.🤏🏾🤏🏾
You can tell when someone has never experienced a healthy relationship. They dont know how to communicate & misinterpret your trying as arguing. Every conversation isn’t an argument. Every issue doesn’t have to become catastrophic. Let’s discuss, move forward or move on.
Hyphy Burger , a whole Smashburger restaurant owned by me and my brothers in our own hood. Lines out the store before we open. viral TikTok‘s already. And we haven’t even Grand opened. God is so good. I Made the logo 60+ different times .. I just can’t believe it tbh