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In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix. What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses. The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there. The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body. PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%. A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right. PCOS is now PMOS.

@TheVumVum Lmaooo

You actually need friends who will put you onto opportunities without fearing that you’ll get ahead of them.

The thing about begging someone to stay with you is that they will eventually still leave you.

unfortunately I do read #whoremembers as whore members

Hmmnn beautiful speech. Ok.

This is so embarrassing

i love meeting an absolute BADDIE and then when you start talking to her she’s a occupational therapist or a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer or an art curator or an investment banker or a social worker etc etc and you go oh this baddie shit is just on the side!!!

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

I read it somewhere "We romanticized the wrong organ the stomach is more emotional than the heart" and it feels so true. We feel butterflies in our stomach and when we're sad we lose our appetite our stomach gets affected by emotions way more than we realize.

Lmaooo this is the video for this song?

@ajnabihunmain Pretty sure your wife feel the same way anytime she see any man that has sense

@Tutunuu Lmfaooo

I think silence is golden. But I also think once in a while you need to remind people that you aren’t the one. Just once in a while, nothing too much.

oh rihanna is so real for that omfg😭🥹

Do not talk about discernment if you cannot recognise when someone needs compassion more than criticism and correction. There is a time to guide and a time to simply hold space for a person who is hurting. Wisdom knows the difference. And kindness knows it even faster.

they bloom regardless

Which Ghanaian babe has Asake in a chokehold? Abena show yourself.

Friends. Having actual friends. Not familiar acquaintances or online mutuals. Real Friends. One of the best hacks for a fulfilling life.