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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"It’s not just a bad period—it’s living with pain no one can see."
In this episode, we sit down with Alice, who shares her raw and honest journey with endometriosis—from navigating the emotional toll of a delayed diagnosis to undergoing surgery and challenging the one-size-fits-all approach to treatment.
Alice opens up about how endometriosis runs in her family, how COVID affected her menstrual cycle, and why the usual advice to "just go on hormonal contraception" doesn’t always cut it.
Expect candid conversations, personal insights, and a deeper understanding of how endo shows up differently for everyone.
We cover (PART 1):
🩸 What endometriosis really feels like for those living with it
🩸 How endo symptoms can shift with your menstrual cycle (or break the pattern entirely)
🩸 Alice’s personal endometriosis story—from early symptoms to surgery
🩸 The genetic side of endometriosis and how it affects her family of three sisters
🩸 How COVID disrupted her cycle and worsened her endo
🩸 What it’s really like to have surgery for endometriosis
🩸 Hormonal contraception as a common "treatment" for endometriosis —and Alice’s honest take on it
Subscribe and follow to not miss Part 2! This episode is part of UYC's Endometriosis Awareness Month Campaign. Listen to Jasmin's powerful endometriosis journey, through diagnosis, fertility to perimenopause, on our podcast as well.
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