Five things you probably didn’t know about periods | BBC Ideas

Menstruation affects half of the world’s population during their lives. But it’s little understood. Here are five surprising thing you may not know about periods.
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  • @harshalthakur5625
    @harshalthakur562510 ай бұрын

    The quality of the video is so good. Incredible animation and visual style

  • @bbcideas

    @bbcideas

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching and for the lovely comment😍

  • @muazzamsanaeva
    @muazzamsanaeva7 ай бұрын

    clear explanation!!! good job👏🏻

  • @chrollolucilfer.v
    @chrollolucilfer.v10 ай бұрын

    I sometimes completely forget what pain women go through menstruation every month I personally wouldn't like going through than pain even for a week.

  • @TheParakeet1999

    @TheParakeet1999

    10 ай бұрын

    Now imagine those with Endometriosis, which literally makes the pain unbearable. I've experienced it myself and sometimes the painkillers don't even work.

  • @TheParakeet1999

    @TheParakeet1999

    10 ай бұрын

    :/

  • @alessiamartino5261

    @alessiamartino5261

    7 ай бұрын

    Us too, if we had the opportunity to choose, but we have just to cope whit it whit a little if no help by the rest of the world...in my experience i start feeling tired and nervous a couple of days before menstruation, and the first day I hardly move from my bed because of the pain and I'm as tired as I wasn't sleeping from a week, and I couldn't eat anything out of some broth and bread for a whole day

  • @StephSancia

    @StephSancia

    Ай бұрын

    ​My partner Muriel died from bowel cancer, septicemia AND a FROZEN PELVIS. Isn't that Endometriosis ? She refused hospital treatment for fear and I nursed her for 18 solid months but her tummy became absolutely huge so isn't a frozen pelvis quite rare ? Doctors in York hospital were shocked when they saw her in 97@@TheParakeet1999

  • @dannymorris6741
    @dannymorris674110 ай бұрын

    Brilliant piece - really fascinating!

  • @bbcideas

    @bbcideas

    10 ай бұрын

    That's great to hear! Thanks so much 🤩

  • @EAsp100
    @EAsp10010 ай бұрын

    This was so well made and the presenter is great 👍🏻

  • @gabriellakountourides6726

    @gabriellakountourides6726

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much!!!

  • @bbcideas

    @bbcideas

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you! 😊

  • @lisab9734
    @lisab973410 ай бұрын

    Moon synching is a thing it’s just we don’t live by the moon like we used to. If we lived more in line with nature we would sync with the moon. So of course tests wouldn’t work to show this

  • @smarteam5920

    @smarteam5920

    10 ай бұрын

    exactly, humans are so disconnected from nature in present times

  • @mayhaatube

    @mayhaatube

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your comment. I was immediately put off by the video because it started with negating our connection to the moon which is a huge element playing an important part in the cycles of all living things. It is interesting to me that they always start from a place of trying to disprove such connections rather than trying to accept the burden of proof in demonstrating that there is no sync. That being said, there is no replacement for lived experience and after having a period for 3 decades I believe I am qualified to make an educated conclusion about this myself.

  • @zenastronomy

    @zenastronomy

    3 ай бұрын

    while there might be some relationship, it is very unlikely to be a factor. otherwise every women would be having their period exactly at the same time in the lunar calendar and such a thing would easily be noticed. 4billion pms incidents at exact same time would be very noticeable. it is as absurd as astrology. whilst gravity is real, astrology is not. it may be affecting women in other ways, maybe in severity or hormones etc, but it is very likely hidden and obscure if so.

  • @AmaizingVideos
    @AmaizingVideos7 ай бұрын

    The pretty smile on your face and related facial expressions throughout the video made this informative content more understandable. Keep smiling sisi

  • @bbcideas
    @bbcideas10 ай бұрын

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  • @chenqy3587
    @chenqy35879 ай бұрын

    I got puzzled that during the ovulation the immune system is suppressed to a certain extent and inflammation denotes strong immune system, those symptoms usually linked to inflammation like headache, tiredness etc. still could appear, sounds like a conflict in a sort of way🧐

  • @Madina-rp4fb
    @Madina-rp4fb10 ай бұрын

    good job

  • @gabriellakountourides6726

    @gabriellakountourides6726

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @heatherbeane3234
    @heatherbeane32342 ай бұрын

    100% agree on the inflammation

  • @mollyshealingcorner
    @mollyshealingcorner9 ай бұрын

    The first “fact” completely turned me off. My cycles have synced to the New Moon like clockwork for close to a year. It’s something that SO many women experience and share and talk about and we feel extremely in touch with nature and with the natural cycles of the moon in turn (something so sacred to indigenous people that you Brit colonizers wouldn’t know much about I guess 🤡) I don’t buy into this overly rigid western model you’re proposing and frankly it seems ignorant to the lived experiences of women for generations at best, and disempowering and gaslighting to women at worst.

  • @helencheckley7536
    @helencheckley75364 ай бұрын

    If men had periods they will make sure there in intensive care lol ❤😊

  • @janakubin2547
    @janakubin25475 ай бұрын

    Exactly, just a theory

  • @rhosllwyd2863
    @rhosllwyd286310 ай бұрын

    Hoping for new information. Well presented though.😊

  • @JillWhitcomb1966

    @JillWhitcomb1966

    10 ай бұрын

    Agreed. it was very entertaining with good visuals, but I did not learn anything new.

  • @anantsharma5330

    @anantsharma5330

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly ! Watched the video, only remembered the animation, portrait, hysteria and some old picture. Nothing new content.

  • @vinay.ambhore
    @vinay.ambhore8 ай бұрын

    Please translate to Hindi Urdu And Mandarin Also.

  • @googlekonto2851
    @googlekonto285110 ай бұрын

    I am glad that as a male my hardware isn't as complex.

  • @StephSancia

    @StephSancia

    Ай бұрын

    @googlekonto I highly suspect if you read the manual that it came with you'd actually be quite blown away at the scientific technicalities of your hardware !!

  • @brokensymphony
    @brokensymphony10 ай бұрын

    Lol moon synching

  • @roxierootsxx
    @roxierootsxx8 ай бұрын

    Half of the human population: girls and women.

  • @Jamie-Z
    @Jamie-Z9 ай бұрын

    Half of the worlds population would be far more correctly called women. It takes so long for her to use the word and she does seem to avoid it when someone studying such a subject would be far better off if they could at least come to terms with the scientic term for people who menstruate - women. They are not half the worlds population, they are women.

  • @roxierootsxx

    @roxierootsxx

    8 ай бұрын

    This.

  • @Durga24853
    @Durga2485310 ай бұрын

    Wasn't as good as I expected

  • @cheetabis
    @cheetabis5 ай бұрын

    xy cannot and will not have period. for sure. xx is xx. xy is xy. from the moment you were conceived to your grave.