Menstrual Science: periods, pills, poverty

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week - we're pondering periods. With about 800 million people menstruating each day around the globe, we're re-visiting the biology, musing over menstruation and mental wellbeing, and asking why, in 2020, period poverty is such a problem. Plus in the news - Lockdown, or let rip? Are our efforts to try to stop the spread of coronavirus taking us in the wrong direction? An update on England and Wales' NHS Covid app. And with England's ban on some single use plastics now in force, why do we have so much of it in the first place? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.5	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist to the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:20.8	in science, technology and medicine.
0:23.0	With me Katie Halea and me Adam Murphy.
0:25.6	And this week we are pondering periods.
0:27.7	With about 800 million people menstruating each day around the globe,
0:31.0	we're revisiting the biology, musing over menstruation and mental well-being,
0:34.8	and asking why in 2020, period poverty is such a problem.
0:38.9	This show contains personal descriptions of medical conditions that some listeners might find difficult to hear.
0:45.0	Plus in the news, lockdown or let rip.
0:48.8	Are our efforts to try to stop the spread of coronavirus taking us in the wrong direction. An update on the new
0:54.3	England and Wales NHS COVID app and with England's ban on some single use plastics
0:59.4	now in force why do we have so much single use plastic around in the first place?
1:04.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Among the COVID news this week, US President Donald Trump has announced that he and the
1:20.3	First Lady are now self isolating with the virus and Scottish National Party
1:24.3	M. P. Margaret Ferrier has been suspended from the party after traveling to Westminster despite experiencing
1:30.0	COVID symptoms. But one of the most frequently asked questions across the media this week
1:34.2	was will we see another lockdown? The government has described this as their nuclear
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