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This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 574.

A recent paper came out entitled The Menstrual Cycle, an overlooked vital sign in psychiatry.

And in today's episode, we are going to talk about it. We are going to talk about how the menstrual cycle impacts not only the physical body, but also are emotions

and even some specific psychiatric disorders and what the implications are for finally

acknowledging this link for women. So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump in.

So this is a fairly new paper.

It came out just a few months ago, if you're listening in real time, it came out in early 2025.

And essentially, this question is being asked, should we be looking at the menstrual cycle

as a vital sign in psychiatry?

Now, of course, I find this to be very interesting.

I think that it, of course, it's timely.

But the way it feels, I think, in the broader population, it's like, this is so cutting edge

and, you know, this is new information and we should be looking at this.

And I feel like if people just listen to women to begin with, this could have been resolved

a long time ago. It is incredible to me that you could be treating women and giving them

very highly powerful psychiatric medications and never even ask if their symptoms are any,

at any point correlated to what's happening in their menstrual cycle.

So although this paper does address a variety of different psychiatric concerns and it

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