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I'm Dr. Aviva Wrong.

Let your period can tell you about your health, meet your sixth vital sign.

Throughout history, the menstrual cycle has been shrouded in magic and mystery.

In some cultures, menstrual blood was imbued with magical powers and menstruating women

were considered to have the ability even to see the future.

In the middle ages, a major, religious, and with it, cultural shift occurred.

Mentionation and menstruating women were no longer treated with reverence.

Mentionation became considered to be dirty, menstruating women, dangerous, and menstrual

blood toxic enough even to make crops wither, leave men impotent, and lead to natural disasters.

This is written up in old medical and history texts.

Vestages of these attitudes have persisted over centuries and have led to long held cultural

shame and ignorance about our periods.

As a result of this, most of us started out on our menstrual journeys more or less in

the dark, not knowing what's normal, what we should be concerned about, or how to get

that information, and we've largely internalized that our periods are gross and dirty.

Only in recent years has the power of menstruation begun to be publicly reclaimed.

Talking about periods has gone from completely taboo to something we might even say is celebrated,

for example, the word period being said loudly and proudly on the stage of the Academy

Awards when the important documentary, period and of sentence, won Best Short Documentary

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