Not to read too much into a comic, but IMO "generational trauma" is tabula rasa bullshit. You recreate the same dysfunction as your parents because YOU SHARE THEIR GENES. My father was nothing but gentle to me and I'm still an angry and physical person because guess what - that's
Forensic labs have a chemical test that tells whether blood at a crime scene came from a wound or from a period. Period blood fails it. They're two different fluids. Nearly half the proteins in menstrual blood don't exist in the blood running through your veins.
Only about a third of what gets shed during a period is actually blood. The rest is uterine tissue, mucus, and vaginal fluid. And the blood portion itself doesn't clot. The protein that normally handles clotting is missing, and the fluid carries other enzymes that break apart any clot trying to form.
Composition varies a lot between women. The total is around 36% blood on average, but a 1985 study of 28 volunteers measured individuals ranging from 1.6% to 81.7%. The rest is the shed uterine lining, mucus from the cervix, and fluid from the vaginal walls.
In 2007, researchers found stem cells in menstrual fluid. Adult stem cells, collected from the lining the uterus sheds each month. They grow faster in the lab than bone marrow stem cells, survive 68 rounds of division without developing genetic errors, and can be turned into neurons, heart cells, cartilage, bone, or pancreatic cells.
Clinical work followed. In 2020, a trial in China gave these stem cells to 26 severely ill COVID patients and used 18 others as a comparison. Mortality in the treated group was 7.69%. In the comparison group: 33.33%. A late-stage trial at Iran's Avicenna Research Institute completed a study using them to try to restore fertility in women whose ovaries were barely producing eggs. In January 2024, the FDA cleared Qvin's Q-Pad, a device that runs the standard diabetes blood-sugar test (HbA1c) on period blood instead of a needle draw. The readings line up with traditional blood tests almost identically.
Menstruation itself is rare in the animal kingdom. About 98% of mammal species don't menstruate. At all. They reabsorb the uterine lining each cycle instead of shedding it. Only primates, a few bat species, the elephant shrew, and one kind of spiny mouse actually bleed. And this trait evolved independently three separate times in different branches of the mammal family tree.
The leading theory for why: the uterus lining acts as a screening layer. Somewhere between 30 and 60% of human embryos get discarded before a pregnancy is even recognized, often because of genetic errors, and menstruation appears to be the body's way of doing that filtering.
Mel Gibson isn't lying…. A recent study documented COMPLETE REMISSION of Stage IV cancers using fenbendazole.
Patients with advanced melanoma, breast, and prostate cancer saw their tumors disappear — without chemotherapy.
Clinical trials must be launched immediately.
Let me explain what this means so that you understand better.
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Sometimes tiny cells in our stomach get very stubborn and turn into bad guys called cancer. They grow way too fast and don't listen to the body's rules.
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But you see, these smart scientists in Korea didn't want to fight them with big scary bombs and bazookas like old medicines do. Instead they sat the cells on a wooden bench and said "Look here you stubborn cells, why don't you just remember who you really are and be good again?
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So they made a pretend computer twin of our belly cells. Just like a magic video game version. (something like that sha) so they played around in the game to find the three bossy switches that were making the cells stay stubborn.
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Those three bossy switches have funny names. They are MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2.
Fantastic 3 lool
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The scientists turned those three mean switches Off. Poof.
And just like that guess what? The stubborn cancer cells were like "Ohhh… I remember now!
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Then they calmed down, grew up properly, and turned back into nice, normal belly helper cells. No more bad growing.
They then tried this in Mice, and the poor mice got better. The bad lumps got smaller because the cells stopped being the bullies they were.
It's like telling your barking Dog at home to shusss and calm down. And it actually calms down.
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This isn't ready for humans yet, as it's still developing. But it's going to help out someday. And well, a lot of people are gonna be wayyyy happier.
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Kudos to the scientists once again and I'm super happy about this development and the positive impact it's going to have on affected people 💪🏾💪🏾
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✍️ Vincent The Therapist
Healthy sleep schedules:
Sleep at 8:00PM → Wake up at 3:30AM
Sleep at 8:30PM → Wake up at 4:00AM
Sleep at 9:00PM → Wake up at 4:30Am
Sleep at 9:30PM → Wake up at 5:00AM
Sleep at 10:00PM → Wake up at 5:30AM
Sleep at 10:30PM → Wake up at 6:00AM
Sleep at 11:00PM → Wake up at 6:30AM
Sleep at 11:30PM → Wake up at 7:00AM
Sleep better, win more in life.
Here's the Psychology About Sleep;
• Poor sleep weakens decision-making the next day.
• Your brain cleans emotional stress only during deep sleep.
• Lack of sleep increases impulsive behavior.
• Sleeping late reduces focus, not just energy.
• Your mood depends more on sleep than motivation.
• Consistent sleep builds mental discipline.
• Quality sleep improves memory and learning.
• Good sleep silently upgrades
Confidence.
This is lowkey a great movie plot… A single mom who supports her family by selling cosmetics met a fast rising actor that always had a bad awards season and suddenly became his good luck charm during awards season when he made their relationship public