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All right, on this week's adult education, I got KB here with me, and we're going to talk periods.

Girl, I'm five days late. I don't know about you.

I could be ambushed any moment. That's the season of life we're in. Oh, but I cannot wait to talk

about, I actually have something really embarrassing. I'm going to admit. And we have Dr. Hazel Wallace

here. So let's just get her on and I'll just go right ahead and embarrass myself. Sisters and

cycle. Away we go. Hi. Doctor. How are you going?

Dr. Hazel Wallace, we have a lot of questions for you. You're wearing such an appropriate color. I'm feeling festive. Yes, exactly. She's wearing red. You're feeling tested? She's got a book, not just a period. So this is good. I like it. Well, thank you for coming on the show. we're just going to jump right into it. Is that cool? Yeah, perfect. Great. So I think I'm, I'm honestly embarrassed to admit this,

but I still don't know, and I should as a 40, almost two-year-old woman, know what my phases of my periods are and I don't like when I go do my blood

work Nate's like oh you're in your loop couldn't even pronounce it face and I'm like I should know

how does a man know this more than I like but I don't think I've ever I don't ever remember

being taught the phases of our periods never once ever I just was like you, you started your period? You're done with your period. And then it wasn't until I started following Tanya Rad and like getting to know her. Because she talks a lot about her, you know, the whatever phases. But I just, I still don't know. I don't understand it. And she's like, yeah, you shouldn't work out in this phase. And I'm like, what? Huh? And there's phases where we're not supposed to make decisions. Did you know this? No, I know nothing. So can you just educate my 42 years of, and I mean, this is so embarrassing. Like, am I the only woman that doesn't know this? Or do other women, like, I don don't help me understand no i mean it's so common

when we learn about periods we learn just about the bleeding phase maybe a little bit about what to do

when you bleed tampons things like that but nothing about the 23 or so days of the entire menstrual cycle

and during that entire cycle, your hormones

are fluctuating. So you don't feel the same on any single day. So it's just wild that we are

not told anything about this when we go through puberty. And again, like up to your 30s, your 40s,

some women are only figuring out what's happening to their bodies now.

I think there's a big movement to learn more and be more autonomous when it comes to our bodies.

So I love that. I love that we're having this conversation.

But I think just so we're all on the same page when it comes to the menstrual cycle, we're talking about a textbook 28 day cycle, but it's normal if your

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