Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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"The first ever pad that was manufactured still hasn't broken down."
In this episode, Emily joins us to talk all things period products—from the first tampons we tried as teens to the eco-friendly innovations we're loving today. She shares her personal journey, a few strong opinions (aka hot takes), and plenty of surprising facts along the way.
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We cover:
🩸 Emily's period product journey—from cardboard applicators to menstrual cups
🩸 The full range of period products out there today (and how to pick what's right for you)
🩸 New trends in period care and why they matter
🩸 The plastic problem in pads:
→ Each of us uses roughly 11,000 period products in our lifetime
→ A mainstream pad can take at least 800 years to decompose
→ Period products are washing up on EU coastlines more than plastic bags
🩸 What actually causes that period smell (spoiler: it's not you)
🩸 How your menstrual cycle can impact your yoga practice
Whether you're curious about trying something new, wondering about the environmental impact of your current go-to, or just love a good period chat—this one's for you.
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