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NEW RESEARCH: Scientists have confirmed that estrogen plays a major role in dopamine regulation. When estrogen drops during perimenopause, ADHD symptoms can intensify dramatically. Women who managed for decades suddenly find themselves struggling in ways they never did before. The crash is not “all in your head.” It’s happening in your brain chemistry. The connection between estrogen and ADHD remains one of the most overlooked areas in women’s health. The research exists. Clinical awareness simply hasn’t caught up yet. Your symptoms are real, and the biology behind them has a name.

Phases of the Menstrual Cycle and Their Impact on ADHD It's not quite that simple, as estrogen "good" and progesterone "bad" as most conventional health advice explains.

Hey we really need to stop just lumping menopause with perimenopause when they are hugely different hormonal stages with different needs. For example, these estrogen patches are not helpful for someone already dealing with perimenopausal excess estrogen and fluctuations.

Menstrual scholars have argued that people who menstruate as well as menstruation itself are positioned as monstrous through 1. communication taboos 2. pathologization and medicalization 3. stigmatization 4. concealment imperatives

Part of medical misogyny has always been treating women's pain as natural and necessary and not something that needs to be alleviated. Historically, they were debating whether pain relief during childbirth was even moral on theological grounds, and the tendency kinda lingers on.

Menstrual suppression is a great example. Side A argues: modern cycles are unnatural and unhealthy compared to historical eras where people were more often pregnant, therefore, medical suppression is right and morally good

FINALLY! A study that accurately investigated both endogenous (homemade) and exogenous (pill form) hormone concentrations throughout the combination monophasic oral contraceptive pill cycle. 🧵