• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Not specifically gangs, but yeah. I remember when I was younger I read a book about a girl who snuck into the army and did cool shit. Absolutely was going in the shower after successful, but dangerous espionage. Bonus points if I could do the whole performance of holding my side/arm while going in.

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    2 days ago

    I’m beating myself up for never doing this.

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    1 day ago

    NPR was mentioning Naomi Watts got menopause at 36, just as she was hoping to start a family. So, I guess it can be BLOOD for only 25ish years instead.

    Mostly wanna mention that though, apparently a ton of people don’t know that can happen (myself included)

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      Apparently menopause can strike a lot sooner in women who have twins (dizygotic). Guess you lose eggs twice as fast. Very sad if that happens before you have a chance to realize/build a family.

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        How does that work, when we are born with more than a million eggs? It’s not like you run out and that causes menopause.

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          23 hours ago

          Actually, kinda yes. Men continuously produce sperm but women have a finite supply of eggs. When it runs out, overies stop producing estrogen. Some older women will use HRT to fight some of the effects of menopause, though.

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            To add to that, although women have millions of eggs to start with, most of these don’t mature and you even lose about a quarter before your first period. The idea is that women with dizygotic twins have increased maturation, causing a higher incidence of releasing two eggs simultaneous and that also leads to faster decreases in eggs. At menopause most women have no eggs left in the ovaries.

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              Huh. That’s interesting. My personal experience of fertility was that pregnancy happened as fast in my late 30s as it had in my 20s, so I thought they just came out 1 or 2 each month and the rest sort of just stopped developing when you went through menopause (both menarche and menopause were kind of late for me, though). I do use HRT (MHT is what they call it) but certainly not to get fertility oh heck no. It keeps away migraines and helped my thinking as well as bone mass.