May 6, 2025 • 31 mins
Ever wondered if oily skin really prevents wrinkles or if your "brain fog" is actually caused by menopause? Four women tackle these questions head-on in this laugh-out-loud game of "Myth or Fact" that shatters misconceptions about aging, menopause, and skincare.Hosts Ashley and Traci welcome special guests "Paige and Paige" who bring thoroughly researched questions designed to test everyone's knowledge about what's really happening to our bodies. The conversation reveals startling truths: did you know Disney produced a period education film back in the 1940s? Or that a staggering 54% of women report having ruined every pair of underwear they own due to menstruation?Beyond the stats and facts lies a deeper conversation about how our bodies change throughout life. The team explores how light exposure can affect menstrual cycles, why acne doesn't necessarily disappear with age, and the truth about those "periods" experienced while on hormonal birth control. Each revelation arrives with equal parts scientific accuracy and unfiltered humor.What makes this episode special isn't just the wealth of information—it's the comfortable, authentic environment where four women can openly discuss everything from endometriosis to "strawberry week" euphemisms without hesitation. The conversation flows naturally between serious health considerations and moments of genuine surprise and laughter, creating a listening experience that educates while entertaining.Whether you're approaching midlife, currently navigating it, or simply curious about the truth behind common body myths, this episode delivers valuable insights wrapped in conversational wisdom. Subscribe now and join our community of listeners who appreciate straight talk about life's most interesting transitions.Sources:Myth of Fact Questions & Answers:https://www.helpingwomenperiod.org/7-amazing-facts-about-periods-that-everyone-needs-to-know/https://www.healthline.com/health/menopause/menopause-factshttps://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a12091987/period-facts/Disney Movie The Story of Menstruation (1946)https://www.google.com/search?q=1940s+disney+movie+on+periods&rlz=1C5MACD_enUS1071US1074&oq=1940s+disney+movie+on+periods&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l4j33i671.13401j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e850fbb4,vid:vG9o9m0LsbI,st:0
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to let's talk midlife crisis.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Ashley and I'm Tracy, where your go to hosts
for all things midlife, menopause and Moments of Pure Mayhem.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
And we have page and page here today and page
and page, page and page, and we're doing myth or
fact menopause and skincare.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome pages, Welcome to our game show, our game show. Okay,
your game show. So far it's been a ship show.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
But here we go, here we go, so jumping right,
So me Paige is going to be doing menopause period
myth are fact, and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
To be doing skincare aging myth in fact. All right,
the other care.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Let's see how smart we are.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Tracey, you're going to be trying to answer the questions correctly.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
So, also, I have none of these contradictory of whatever
you guys have said on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well I said previous episodes about aging. They don't contradict anything.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We will find out. Luckily, we didn't have to do
any research for this podcast, which is really cool. I know.
So let's see if you guys have research.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Yeah, we don't know what they're going to come.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We have no idea so no research.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yes, and everybody keep in mind some of my myths
first facts maybe more lean towards.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
The period side.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
But like I told Tracy and Ashley, were for.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The period, there would be no menopause. That is so.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That well, okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're gonna start with the easiest of ones. Okay, okay,
just because it's like a warm up. So, Paige, do
you want to participation? I'll back So, menopause never starts
before age.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Fifty, that's a myth. Yeah, okay, good right.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I just wanted to a little warm up.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I know this from personal experience.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
And I'm just gonna since that was such an easy one,
I'm going to do one more.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Okay, okay, Well, because that was.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like a warm up, and I only have ten so
if you have more than ten, no, that's not fair.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, your your body loses around three tablespoons of blood
during your period.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh, I would say myth. No, I would say that's
a fact. Three tablespoons. I do not girl, I used
to bleed.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I think that's enough, right, that makes that Oh you
think it's more than anything.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think you said more than three tablespoons.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Your body loses around three tables Oh okay, myth.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I agree, that's a myth. Yeah, sorry, I was not
paying atten.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Also, everyone, we have a dog that's like devouring his
peanut butter out of his little cong toy. So if
you hear anything, things are not getting freaky here, I promise.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
And you probably have heard of if you're a regular listener.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes to Toros. He's a regular attender attender on our studio.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Anybody hears that, then your mics are very good. I
just want to make it clear.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So that was a fact, and so it says and
what's really crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It says it.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Although it may seem like a lot, but if we're
thinking that, we might be need to be concerned because
it says, if it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Seems like you're normal, well not until I started Perry
Menial when you started to lose.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
But I would feel like my normal one is probably
about that. On my heaviest day, I probably lose about that.
I mean, everything else is really sor.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's hard to know when you're using a tampon because
I absorbing you don't know what it's absorbing. You don't
know what.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Does make so it does if you're losing more than that,
but maybe that means you should go.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so when I hit perimenopodcast.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
If you think you're losing more than that, it can
increase your risk of anemia and insulting off, dizziness and
all that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So people could be like, I'm on my period right now.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I just have really bad symptoms and it'll be like
dizziness and stuff, and it's like, oh, you might be bleeding.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
If it's more than three tables, you should assault the doctor.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Great, listen, ladies, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
PR and PhD.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Also, these are.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
All all these all this information will be I got
the links for you guys.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, thank you, so m show. They'll be in our
show notes all right, Okay.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Find my links to p too, PhD.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Al Right, myth or fact acne goes away with age,
Oh myth.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I think that's a myth too.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, it is adult acne. Yeah, because it has to
do with the hormone androgen. It doesn't have to do
with actually your eight you know, or anything.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's your hormone, so it has nothing to do with acne.
But I never did either.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But I never had acne.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Until I turned twenty five twenty six, and then.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I started getting a lot of hormonal acne.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
And I just recently found out that it's because I
had an excess in testosterol, which is androgen.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh my gosh. I started you have blood work done? Yeah, okay,
and I took a pill.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I started taking spirinal act to.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Show a beachy Yeah. It was cool and it's gone
away since. Thensive, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Congratulations. It's always great finding out remedies to your issues.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes, okay, p page, pee.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Page, pee page, doctor kage. Guys, listen to this paging page.
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
There are more than five thousand euphorisms for period around
the world.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
More than five thousand. Oh gosh, that seems like a
really high number. Around five around the world. I mean,
how many languages are there? Okay, I'm I'm I guess
I'm gonna go with fact.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, well, guess what. It's a fact, and let me
tell you two of them.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Aunt flow, No, Actually, that's what's so weird.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I literally was not. I didn't even have this fact
written when I asked you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That. Okay, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
But this morning I asked Ashley, I was like, do
you know what I mean when I say sorry, my
aunt flows in town?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
She looked at me and I'm like, I only heard
it one time my friend Sean, and she was like,
I asked her to do something.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
She was saying, I can't my aunt flows in town.
I was like, okay, and she was like, do you
know what aunt far means? And I'm like no, and
she's like, it's your period. I'm like, whoa, that is
so cool, commercial clever. I never heard that.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I feel like, I don't know, it's just has but wait,
let me just hold on. So in French, I'm not
going to say what it how I.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Don't know how to speak French, but let's do not
know how to speak in broadcast or well, I would
love to hear you try though, please try.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, fine, because maybe someone will be able to, at
least in high school. But I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's pretty good in French. A little bit of German
in there, but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
In French. That means the English have landed.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You think about that reference?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, and as American or is it England?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, I think it's England. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
If this is supposed to be a rapid fire, listen
to this, I'm not doing it too fast. There is
a word, there's a phrase in German and I'm not
trying it. And it means strawberry weak.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh that's kind of cute.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Strawberry We called strawberry kisses and it's all going down
on a woman.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So it is, and I know that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I just don't give strawberry kisses when it's strawberry weak.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You lie, that's amazing, Okay to oh my god, all right?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Myth or fact oily skin resists wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I think that's a myth.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
One gosh myth as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
My people just assume because it's more oily, they think
hydrit It's like it's.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Just oil. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I've always had dry skins, so I was guessing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I had very neutral skins.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I have oily skin more so unless I'm super dry,
i'd say more so oily. And I didn't use moisturizer
for a while because I thought that it would cause
breakouts because of the right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Then I just had acne and dry skin.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So yeah, I don't think i've ever had I do
sometimes get dry skin, But I wouldn't say it's like
terribly dry. You know, it's very neutral.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Like I can tell by actually playing you looking at you.
I could never be like, oh you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Have dry skin, right right, It's not like it's flaky.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Was like, oh, well you have like you know, your
te zone and I have dry skin, Like stop it.
Maybe it's not maybe it's changed, or maybe it's not dry.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Okay, page R.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, So myth or fact menopause makes you forgetful fact.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I know y'all are saying back, Yeah, okay, so it's
not actually the menopause, that's what you're gonna tell us. Okay,
what is it that?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So it may feel.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
That you get foggier during perimenopause transitioning into menopause, but
menopause itself does not cause memory loss, and any.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Troubles you have could just be due to your brain aging.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So it's because you know, it comes later in life,
so your brain starts to age a little bit and
you start to forget a little more.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I think of it like a sponge and like now
it's like it's so something else to go out for something.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, but that's what you think, and I actually know this.
I just had this conversation with my psychiatrist yesterday. Actually,
we were talking about a loved one of mine that's
concerned about dementia because their mom had it. Yeah, and
there's been some forgetfulness and so it's like and my
(10:48):
psychiatrist I was telling her about this, and she said,
you know that your brain is always a sponge always,
So when you get to a certain age and you're
not actually receiving information like you do when you're younger,
you should start doing like word searches and like mind games. Yes, yeah,
and that's where it triggers those same receptors in your brain. Yeah,
(11:13):
So good to know your spongees never fall. Tracy, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Since I have like a little more than Paige, can
I do another one?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
This one's pretty sure. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It's more just like meta fact, I don't have something
after Okay. So out of thirty six thousand women surveyed, right,
thirty six thousand women surveyed, Okay, what.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Percent is the math question? If train A, if X
equals y, speaking of trains, train's.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Okay? Ready?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thirty five thousand women, so thirty six or thirty I
already failed, already failed.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
What percent said that they ruined every pair of underwear
they own due to their period?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Every pair percentage of thirty six, but every pair, not
just one specific pair, every pair.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So happy that I have all clean underwear now, I
think same, eighty.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I think it's a very hard.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, I would think so too. I'm thinking, like, my god,
I'm blown away seventy to seventy.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Five every pair of underwear.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I think a lot of people are just I think
they're a very exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, I think thirty thirty and then think about this.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
That I would wear doing thirty six thousand women, right, which.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is actually a very small forty.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I think like, yeah, eighty, I say eighty. I think
it's forty seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'm saying like seventy Okay, Page was the closest.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
It is fifty four percent, yeah, which like that's valid,
but it's also personal experience.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, right, And how many underweard you have? And when
I lose?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
If you have five of underwear, then yeah, transis are
you probably ruined all of them?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Like true, you need to be get like fifteen pairs
of eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You could never function with only five pair of underwear.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This is I know. But some people out there maybe yeah, yeah, ye,
she doesn't even have to worry about just worry about it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, I have like you literally have today.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm counting like my months now, Tracy, and I'm praying
to God I get to twelve and to God ruined.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But that's one every a couple of months, I know.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Okay, PhD al Right, So myth or fact, eight glasses
of water a day keeps dry skin away.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think that's I think that's a myth.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
An apple a day, heves a doctor. It is a
myth really well, because I don't drink water, well, you
do both. You still need water and other things.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Actually, but you did just say you have dry skin trace.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
See so.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
That's a good point.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
But just because you're drinking water doesn't mean it's necessarily
going exactly right to the set.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right of your skin. I mean, obviously your organs need
water and hydrated.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Yeah, plus like hyaluronic acid and things like that. Being hydrated,
plus moisturization.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Within your like cerrums and stuff effect do it. But
water alone necessarily is right what what? What?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Eight glasses of water a day keeps.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Drinking away drinking is what are you thinking about sitting
in it?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I'm just thinking sometimes I wash my face just water.
And I thought you were going to say that that's bad.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
No, okay, well right, drinking water does not make your
skin hydrated.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It does, thank you, bro.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
You need to do it important.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you're not drinking water, you better start for really
you shou okay okay, I are ready, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Insert commercial year.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Once ago we interrupt this past special report. Sleeping with
a night light can help regulate your cycle?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That has.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You know what, it's so wild? I think it's fat.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
What Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
If it is, I need to know why regulate your cycle?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I say, mac wow, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Sorry if I think I might have been muffled there.
But the question was sleeping with the night light? No, no, no,
this very night light can regulate your cycle? Fact?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Myth?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Okay, it is a fact?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why so?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Light exposure affects the secretion of melatonin, the sleep hormone,
which helps.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
You, like in Alaska when it doesn't get me and
like do physical things to make their body believe that
it's nighttime.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, but I just don't. That's weird to mean, how
to affect your cycle. That explains why I had never
had a regular cycle, so I don't use a nightlight.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Page if it says let exposure affects the secretion of melatonin,
but melatonin helps control the release of the female reproductive
hormones that determine when your menstrual cycle begins and ends.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
And then so in a study in the early nineties,
women with extra long or irregular cycles who slept next
to a regular one hundred watt light bulb for a
few days during the last two weeks of their cycle
shorten their cycles by an average of twelve days.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
So like what you're supposed to do, but you're supposed
to it's like specific, yeah, yeah, it's like an average.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Okay, so it's like my twelve day Okay, I.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Was like, holy shit, twelve Yeah no, but so like again,
consult a doctor.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But it also said.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That it's important to only use the night light the
last two weeks of your cycle.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh, so like, but like messy, I.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Would call son, No, that's I use sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I do too in my house. But also we're talking
cycle like the whole month, yeah right, not just when you're.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Cycles have like I've noticed recently, but I've been paying
attention to like my actual like dicular luteal like my
actual phases.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
About to have a baby brow no.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
But I've also realized that my moods, everything, like the
way I exercise, everything really does accurately line up with.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Like I needed that part of your cycle.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
To an extent where I'm like, and I really have
to base things based off of my cycle.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
As crazy as.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That sounds, like I can I can't do lunch that
week because I know I'm going to be out in
my cycle.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes exactly, and I'm like, I can't. Actually I want not.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I won't be able to commit.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
But in my head, I'm like you, maybe I'm in
my luteal face, so I don't know how good be feeling.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You're not gonna want to make commitments. Yeah, okay, I
love that alright.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Wrinkles are the first sign of aging myth A.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Fact, first sign mythth.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, I started noticing body changes the way before I
had wrinkles.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, well this one is based off of just skincare. Okay,
but it says like electicity.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Actually show up if I do something my arm in
a certain way and I'm like.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yeah, it's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
My gosh, I remember like when you're younger and like yeah,
thing just like bounces back to someone that you're like
now I'm playing what sand you know those little sam
stress high helens, high helens.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I have a Helen in my family.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
No, tell her high.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, you are all right? Ready you ready?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes? Always so.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't actually know like much about this because I've
never been on birth control.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But interesting it said the.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Period, the period in quotes you get while taking birth control,
hormonal birth control.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Did you get a period? You can't? No, No, the
whole question isn't even asked.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I'm just questioning myself normal birth control, your different forms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, I did so, even even though I shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
So the period you get while taking hormonal birth control
isn't a real period.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It's a fake one.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's true. I think it's a fact.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Okay, if fact, trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I mean, I just am really curious now that there's
anything other than a real period, Like, trust me, I'm
gonna go with myth, but I'm probably wrong. I'll see. Yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
When you take when you take your white pills or
remove your ring, your body doesn't get the Oh my god,
your body doesn't get the synthetic progesterone needed to keep
your uterine lining in place, so it sheds.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Yeah, that's how people can skip their periods of their
own birth control.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But I still don't.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's building up tissue and tissue and that's lining, which.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is not health.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, it's not healthy. It's not healthy. It's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Also, well no, So my daughter was like super were
super athletic growing up, didn't start her period till she
was on break between the soccer season, and so who
knows that she would have started sooner, And then when
she would start back up in the season, she didn't
have a period again until.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
She was less hormones because of how active she was.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So but I remember thinking is that okay and talking
to her doctor about it, and they said, she you,
we should have at least one period of quarter. So
if you are trying to not have one with your
bird control, that's okay. Just make sure you're having one
once a quarter.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
That's good Because I had a friend like that in
high school who was in like a really intense gymnast
and she didn't get it until she was seventeen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, and that was like a big concern.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So that's good. Yeah, my daughter was sixteen when she
had her so yeah, yeah, okay, okay, you're all right.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
My next question is aging. Is genetic myth efect.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Aging skin type wife? Yeah, my fact, I say fact.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I say fact to both. Yeah, kind of a really okay,
but yes, genetics have a huge part of it. So like,
even if you are in the sun a ton and
you are a smoker and you.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Are whatever, whenever, whatever, whenever, if your genes are good,
you'll still end up good.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But if you have bad.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Genes, not as good as you could.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But like, if you have the.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Genes, you'll probably be like you're not going to be
the one where it's like, yes, I've spoked.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And now my skin Like it's not the most interesting.
But if you are not.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
So let's say you have bad genetics but you live
super healthy, you could not have the same.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It's because it's.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Environment now, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It's environmental and intrinsic.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
It's bold generics plus how you live your life an
environmental friend.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That makes sense a good one. And I actually I
have to say today I was at the store and
I was at the cash register or you know, the register,
paying and this woman came up behind me in line,
and she was probably fifteen twenty years older me. She said,
how do you stay so skinny? Which I thought was
kind of a weird question to ask a stranger, and
(23:12):
I just kind of was taken aback by it, and
I said, I I think I have good genes, Like
my whole family's pretty thin, So again, genetic, you know.
Also you know that could be different depending on your lifestyle.
But yeah, we're yeah, yeah, my all my families thin. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
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Speaker 3 (23:37):
Okay, look, so.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
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last forever, so really so okay this one.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
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Speaker 2 (23:50):
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Speaker 3 (23:54):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Disney made a movie about periods in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Whoa, And I'm gonna I'm gonna repeat that again.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Disney made movies about periods in the nineteen forties Plural
or One Earth?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Just want I still say Disney made a movie in
the nineteen forties. Yep, Pages now a Disney princess.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
She knows for Disney that she's trying.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm saying it's a myth.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, I think it's a myth.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I want to say myth, but I feel like it's
a fact.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
So this is when they tried to make one, but
it probably wasn't really that accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So look at this they did.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Anything they say about women in the forties, babe, a big.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
One they did.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
First of all, I didn't even watch it, but it's accessible.
I could see the YouTube, no way, and I thought,
maybe we'll link it to the your listen, Yeah, and
then everyone's gonna watch to watch it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Never done. Yeah, yeah, we watch it. So Disney did
make a movie about period and that it's stereo.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's called the Story of Menstruation and it was funded
by Cotex.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's an explainer for tweens on what about they hit
their ovaries very soon the forties? Yeah, it's like blow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I mean that's way before.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Like it's not that great, that's awesome. I want to
watch it. Yeah, we're watching it.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And right after that movie they go roll right into
How to Be a Good House.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That's but let's let's stress.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, it was a different time, right, and it's great
that it's.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay allowed to joke about it, exist I know, is
talking crazy?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh, come on, stop.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Actually agreed, but anyway, what myth or fact?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yes, sunscreens should only be worn in the sun.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
They want you to wear it all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Know, like you when if you drive a lot, if
you drive a lot, even though your windows up, windows
are up, you're getting good hit by the sun.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Zon So even in the winter time, only negative effects
for the sun.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So I say, myth, what do you say?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Myth?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I forget the question. Sun's pretens should only be worn
in the sun. Yeah, myth, I want you to wear
it all the time. Who's they? The people, doctors and everyone. Anyways,
there's two types of UV.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, So there's UV raised from lighting as well.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
As U V A raised and there's V B.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Right, So U B A is actually like how I
learned it in school, is U B A is aging.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
UV B is burning. Even if you're not burning in
the sun, you're still.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Aging the race. Thus the age spots that I have
all over my body.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And that results in being a tan.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Italian when you're young, and then you'll.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Be older and.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Always it's we're all talking at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I hope you can all figure out what everyone's saying.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fine, then you guys are all ruining my big one.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, A rare period disorder can cause bleeding out of
the eyes.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
What I hope it's a myth.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I literally can't believe you even saw that. It has
to be a myth.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I can't believe.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
In fact, no, that is disturbing.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Known as my carious menstruation, this rare condition makes you
bleed from organs besides your uterus like your eyes while
you're on your period. According to a case study published
in this journal that I.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Linked that you can link and.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Studying, I don't know, but only a handful of cases
have been recorded.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
But with the study, he says the condition is caused
when endometrial tissue, which normally grows.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In your un spread URIs trim.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
But just went to the emergency room actually recently for
that and they thought my andretris went to my lungs ide,
that's a thing my lungs because they thought it did
you never got it checked out. I don't know if
it did or not, but yes.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I was, you should probably check on that throwing up.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
So they thought, yeah, the same thing that I went
to terrifying from when I was at your guys.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
They think that that could have been the cause of
what I was experiencing at your.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Nothing to mess around.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Go to a doctor when it comes to serums and products.
If it burns in stings, it works myth are fact.
Oh myth. Yes, it means your barrier skin barrier probably
isn't good. You shouldn't moisturize oily skin.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Myth are fact math act.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I mean you shouldn't moisturize oily skin.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's a myth because oily. Actually it means it's over compensation.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I wonder I have materials soap. Oh you well, I'm
going to end the podcast. Antibacterial soap is best for skin,
no fact.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I don't know if it's best, but I use it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It's a myth. You have natural like bacteria and oils
on your skin, okay, yeah, speaking of you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Never I don't use it on my face, just my hands.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
So now I just want to end it with something
we all know because everyone has heard of it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But just to just one more time.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Remember before her mission in nineteen eighty three, NASA engineers
asked Sally Ride if she would need one hundred tampons
for the week of her period in space. Myth or fact, No,
this is just fact. Her response, No, that would not
(29:48):
be the right number.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, it was the right number.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
But actually they guys a week ask.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Do you need one hundred tampons for the week in
space or your period?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One week?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
One hundred tampons? Hundred? Oh okay, they thought we were
changing them every second. I think, oh well no.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I just was like, well, what did she say? The
number is like, I mean, no, that's definitely okay.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So this isn't a fact.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I mean, if you're going through that many, I mean
that's consultant.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
After Yeah, tampons are sold in boxes of eighteen for
a reason, because so this is I didn't include this
because it's so contradictory, but like one of the studies
said that they're sold in boxes of eighteen because they
did a study that said the average amount of tampons
used during your cycle was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No, but it really does depend because that other same different.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Studies said that women, some women used like forty some tampons.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, well, they also have like super regular. They also
have different signs.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So I have one, I have one really really heavy day.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Well I'll go through like five and no four and
then the rest of it four, five, six, maybe eight
eight total in my career. But I have a really
I have one extremely heavy day every other day is
like very likely you have two bangs out on one buck.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thank you, Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
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Welcome pages, Welcome to our game show, our game show. Okay,
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But here we go, here we go, so jumping right,
So me Paige is going to be doing menopause period
myth are fact, and I'm going.
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To be doing skincare aging myth in fact. All right,
the other care.
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Let's see how smart we are.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Tracey, you're going to be trying to answer the questions correctly.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
So, also, I have none of these contradictory of whatever
you guys have said on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well I said previous episodes about aging. They don't contradict anything.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We will find out. Luckily, we didn't have to do
any research for this podcast, which is really cool. I know.
So let's see if you guys have research.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Yeah, we don't know what they're going to come.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We have no idea so no research.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yes, and everybody keep in mind some of my myths
first facts maybe more lean towards.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
The period side.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
But like I told Tracy and Ashley, were for.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The period, there would be no menopause. That is so.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That well, okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're gonna start with the easiest of ones. Okay, okay,
just because it's like a warm up. So, Paige, do
you want to participation? I'll back So, menopause never starts
before age.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Fifty, that's a myth. Yeah, okay, good right.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I just wanted to a little warm up.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I know this from personal experience.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
And I'm just gonna since that was such an easy one,
I'm going to do one more.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Okay, okay, Well, because that was.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like a warm up, and I only have ten so
if you have more than ten, no, that's not fair.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, your your body loses around three tablespoons of blood
during your period.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh, I would say myth. No, I would say that's
a fact. Three tablespoons. I do not girl, I used
to bleed.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I think that's enough, right, that makes that Oh you
think it's more than anything.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think you said more than three tablespoons.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Your body loses around three tables Oh okay, myth.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I agree, that's a myth. Yeah, sorry, I was not
paying atten.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Also, everyone, we have a dog that's like devouring his
peanut butter out of his little cong toy. So if
you hear anything, things are not getting freaky here, I promise.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
And you probably have heard of if you're a regular listener.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes to Toros. He's a regular attender attender on our studio.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Anybody hears that, then your mics are very good. I
just want to make it clear.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So that was a fact, and so it says and
what's really crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It says it.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Although it may seem like a lot, but if we're
thinking that, we might be need to be concerned because
it says, if it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Seems like you're normal, well not until I started Perry
Menial when you started to lose.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
But I would feel like my normal one is probably
about that. On my heaviest day, I probably lose about that.
I mean, everything else is really sor.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's hard to know when you're using a tampon because
I absorbing you don't know what it's absorbing. You don't
know what.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Does make so it does if you're losing more than that,
but maybe that means you should go.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, so when I hit perimenopodcast.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
If you think you're losing more than that, it can
increase your risk of anemia and insulting off, dizziness and
all that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So people could be like, I'm on my period right now.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I just have really bad symptoms and it'll be like
dizziness and stuff, and it's like, oh, you might be bleeding.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
If it's more than three tables, you should assault the doctor.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Great, listen, ladies, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
PR and PhD.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Also, these are.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
All all these all this information will be I got
the links for you guys.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh, thank you, so m show. They'll be in our
show notes all right, Okay.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Find my links to p too, PhD.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Al Right, myth or fact acne goes away with age,
Oh myth.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I think that's a myth too.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, it is adult acne. Yeah, because it has to
do with the hormone androgen. It doesn't have to do
with actually your eight you know, or anything.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's your hormone, so it has nothing to do with acne.
But I never did either.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
But I never had acne.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Until I turned twenty five twenty six, and then.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I started getting a lot of hormonal acne.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
And I just recently found out that it's because I
had an excess in testosterol, which is androgen.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh my gosh. I started you have blood work done? Yeah, okay,
and I took a pill.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I started taking spirinal act to.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Show a beachy Yeah. It was cool and it's gone
away since. Thensive, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Congratulations. It's always great finding out remedies to your issues.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yes, okay, p page, pee.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Page, pee page, doctor kage. Guys, listen to this paging page.
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
There are more than five thousand euphorisms for period around
the world.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
More than five thousand. Oh gosh, that seems like a
really high number. Around five around the world. I mean,
how many languages are there? Okay, I'm I'm I guess
I'm gonna go with fact.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, well, guess what. It's a fact, and let me
tell you two of them.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Aunt flow, No, Actually, that's what's so weird.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I literally was not. I didn't even have this fact
written when I asked you.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That. Okay, that's funny.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
But this morning I asked Ashley, I was like, do
you know what I mean when I say sorry, my
aunt flows in town?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
She looked at me and I'm like, I only heard
it one time my friend Sean, and she was like,
I asked her to do something.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
She was saying, I can't my aunt flows in town.
I was like, okay, and she was like, do you
know what aunt far means? And I'm like no, and
she's like, it's your period. I'm like, whoa, that is
so cool, commercial clever. I never heard that.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I feel like, I don't know, it's just has but wait,
let me just hold on. So in French, I'm not
going to say what it how I.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
Don't know how to speak French, but let's do not
know how to speak in broadcast or well, I would
love to hear you try though, please try.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, fine, because maybe someone will be able to, at
least in high school. But I say that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's pretty good in French. A little bit of German
in there, but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
In French. That means the English have landed.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh wow, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You think about that reference?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, and as American or is it England?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, I think it's England. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
If this is supposed to be a rapid fire, listen
to this, I'm not doing it too fast. There is
a word, there's a phrase in German and I'm not
trying it. And it means strawberry weak.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh that's kind of cute.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Strawberry We called strawberry kisses and it's all going down
on a woman.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So it is, and I know that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I just don't give strawberry kisses when it's strawberry weak.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
You lie, that's amazing, Okay to oh my god, all right?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Myth or fact oily skin resists wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I think that's a myth.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
One gosh myth as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
My people just assume because it's more oily, they think
hydrit It's like it's.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Just oil. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I've always had dry skins, so I was guessing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I had very neutral skins.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I have oily skin more so unless I'm super dry,
i'd say more so oily. And I didn't use moisturizer
for a while because I thought that it would cause
breakouts because of the right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Then I just had acne and dry skin.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So yeah, I don't think i've ever had I do
sometimes get dry skin, But I wouldn't say it's like
terribly dry. You know, it's very neutral.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Like I can tell by actually playing you looking at you.
I could never be like, oh you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Have dry skin, right right, It's not like it's flaky.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Was like, oh, well you have like you know, your
te zone and I have dry skin, Like stop it.
Maybe it's not maybe it's changed, or maybe it's not dry.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Okay, page R.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, So myth or fact menopause makes you forgetful fact.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I know y'all are saying back, Yeah, okay, so it's
not actually the menopause, that's what you're gonna tell us. Okay,
what is it that?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So it may feel.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
That you get foggier during perimenopause transitioning into menopause, but
menopause itself does not cause memory loss, and any.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Troubles you have could just be due to your brain aging.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So it's because you know, it comes later in life,
so your brain starts to age a little bit and
you start to forget a little more.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I think of it like a sponge and like now
it's like it's so something else to go out for something.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Okay, but that's what you think, and I actually know this.
I just had this conversation with my psychiatrist yesterday. Actually,
we were talking about a loved one of mine that's
concerned about dementia because their mom had it. Yeah, and
there's been some forgetfulness and so it's like and my
(10:48):
psychiatrist I was telling her about this, and she said,
you know that your brain is always a sponge always,
So when you get to a certain age and you're
not actually receiving information like you do when you're younger,
you should start doing like word searches and like mind games. Yes, yeah,
and that's where it triggers those same receptors in your brain. Yeah,
(11:13):
So good to know your spongees never fall. Tracy, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Since I have like a little more than Paige, can
I do another one?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
This one's pretty sure. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It's more just like meta fact, I don't have something
after Okay. So out of thirty six thousand women surveyed, right,
thirty six thousand women surveyed, Okay, what.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Percent is the math question? If train A, if X
equals y, speaking of trains, train's.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Okay? Ready?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Thirty five thousand women, so thirty six or thirty I
already failed, already failed.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
What percent said that they ruined every pair of underwear
they own due to their period?
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Every pair percentage of thirty six, but every pair, not
just one specific pair, every pair.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So happy that I have all clean underwear now, I
think same, eighty.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I think it's a very hard.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, I would think so too. I'm thinking, like, my god,
I'm blown away seventy to seventy.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Five every pair of underwear.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I think a lot of people are just I think
they're a very exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Well, I think thirty thirty and then think about this.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
That I would wear doing thirty six thousand women, right, which.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Is actually a very small forty.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I think like, yeah, eighty, I say eighty. I think
it's forty seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I'm saying like seventy Okay, Page was the closest.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
It is fifty four percent, yeah, which like that's valid,
but it's also personal experience.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, right, And how many underweard you have? And when
I lose?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
If you have five of underwear, then yeah, transis are
you probably ruined all of them?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Like true, you need to be get like fifteen pairs
of eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You could never function with only five pair of underwear.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This is I know. But some people out there maybe yeah, yeah, ye,
she doesn't even have to worry about just worry about it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, I have like you literally have today.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm counting like my months now, Tracy, and I'm praying
to God I get to twelve and to God ruined.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But that's one every a couple of months, I know.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Okay, PhD al Right, So myth or fact, eight glasses
of water a day keeps dry skin away.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I think that's I think that's a myth.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
An apple a day, heves a doctor. It is a
myth really well, because I don't drink water, well, you
do both. You still need water and other things.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Actually, but you did just say you have dry skin trace.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
See so.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
That's a good point.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
But just because you're drinking water doesn't mean it's necessarily
going exactly right to the set.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right of your skin. I mean, obviously your organs need
water and hydrated.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Yeah, plus like hyaluronic acid and things like that. Being hydrated,
plus moisturization.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Within your like cerrums and stuff effect do it. But
water alone necessarily is right what what? What?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Eight glasses of water a day keeps.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Drinking away drinking is what are you thinking about sitting
in it?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I'm just thinking sometimes I wash my face just water.
And I thought you were going to say that that's bad.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
No, okay, well right, drinking water does not make your
skin hydrated.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It does, thank you, bro.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
You need to do it important.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
If you're not drinking water, you better start for really
you shou okay okay, I are ready, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Insert commercial year.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Once ago we interrupt this past special report. Sleeping with
a night light can help regulate your cycle?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That has.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
You know what, it's so wild? I think it's fat.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
What Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
If it is, I need to know why regulate your cycle?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I say, mac wow, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Sorry if I think I might have been muffled there.
But the question was sleeping with the night light? No, no, no,
this very night light can regulate your cycle? Fact?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Myth?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Okay, it is a fact?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why so?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Light exposure affects the secretion of melatonin, the sleep hormone,
which helps.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
You, like in Alaska when it doesn't get me and
like do physical things to make their body believe that
it's nighttime.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, but I just don't. That's weird to mean, how
to affect your cycle. That explains why I had never
had a regular cycle, so I don't use a nightlight.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Page if it says let exposure affects the secretion of melatonin,
but melatonin helps control the release of the female reproductive
hormones that determine when your menstrual cycle begins and ends.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
And then so in a study in the early nineties,
women with extra long or irregular cycles who slept next
to a regular one hundred watt light bulb for a
few days during the last two weeks of their cycle
shorten their cycles by an average of twelve days.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
So like what you're supposed to do, but you're supposed
to it's like specific, yeah, yeah, it's like an average.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Okay, so it's like my twelve day Okay, I.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Was like, holy shit, twelve Yeah no, but so like again,
consult a doctor.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But it also said.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That it's important to only use the night light the
last two weeks of your cycle.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh, so like, but like messy, I.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Would call son, No, that's I use sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I do too in my house. But also we're talking
cycle like the whole month, yeah right, not just when you're.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Cycles have like I've noticed recently, but I've been paying
attention to like my actual like dicular luteal like my
actual phases.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
About to have a baby brow no.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
But I've also realized that my moods, everything, like the
way I exercise, everything really does accurately line up with.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Like I needed that part of your cycle.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
To an extent where I'm like, and I really have
to base things based off of my cycle.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
As crazy as.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That sounds, like I can I can't do lunch that
week because I know I'm going to be out in
my cycle.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes exactly, and I'm like, I can't. Actually I want not.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I won't be able to commit.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
But in my head, I'm like you, maybe I'm in
my luteal face, so I don't know how good be feeling.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You're not gonna want to make commitments. Yeah, okay, I
love that alright.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Wrinkles are the first sign of aging myth A.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Fact, first sign mythth.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, I started noticing body changes the way before I
had wrinkles.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, well this one is based off of just skincare. Okay,
but it says like electicity.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Actually show up if I do something my arm in
a certain way and I'm like.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yeah, it's like, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
My gosh, I remember like when you're younger and like yeah,
thing just like bounces back to someone that you're like
now I'm playing what sand you know those little sam
stress high helens, high helens.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I have a Helen in my family.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
No, tell her high.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, you are all right? Ready you ready?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yes? Always so.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I don't actually know like much about this because I've
never been on birth control.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But interesting it said the.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Period, the period in quotes you get while taking birth control,
hormonal birth control.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Did you get a period? You can't? No, No, the
whole question isn't even asked.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I'm just questioning myself normal birth control, your different forms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, I did so, even even though I shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
So the period you get while taking hormonal birth control
isn't a real period.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It's a fake one.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's true. I think it's a fact.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Okay, if fact, trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I mean, I just am really curious now that there's
anything other than a real period, Like, trust me, I'm
gonna go with myth, but I'm probably wrong. I'll see. Yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
When you take when you take your white pills or
remove your ring, your body doesn't get the Oh my god,
your body doesn't get the synthetic progesterone needed to keep
your uterine lining in place, so it sheds.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Yeah, that's how people can skip their periods of their
own birth control.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But I still don't.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's building up tissue and tissue and that's lining, which.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is not health.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, it's not healthy. It's not healthy. It's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Also, well no, So my daughter was like super were
super athletic growing up, didn't start her period till she
was on break between the soccer season, and so who
knows that she would have started sooner, And then when
she would start back up in the season, she didn't
have a period again until.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
She was less hormones because of how active she was.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So but I remember thinking is that okay and talking
to her doctor about it, and they said, she you,
we should have at least one period of quarter. So
if you are trying to not have one with your
bird control, that's okay. Just make sure you're having one
once a quarter.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
That's good Because I had a friend like that in
high school who was in like a really intense gymnast
and she didn't get it until she was seventeen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, and that was like a big concern.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So that's good. Yeah, my daughter was sixteen when she
had her so yeah, yeah, okay, okay, you're all right.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
My next question is aging. Is genetic myth efect.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Aging skin type wife? Yeah, my fact, I say fact.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I say fact to both. Yeah, kind of a really okay,
but yes, genetics have a huge part of it. So like,
even if you are in the sun a ton and
you are a smoker and you.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Are whatever, whenever, whatever, whenever, if your genes are good,
you'll still end up good.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
But if you have bad.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Genes, not as good as you could.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But like, if you have the.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Genes, you'll probably be like you're not going to be
the one where it's like, yes, I've spoked.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And now my skin Like it's not the most interesting.
But if you are not.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
So let's say you have bad genetics but you live
super healthy, you could not have the same.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It's because it's.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Environment now, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It's environmental and intrinsic.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
It's bold generics plus how you live your life an
environmental friend.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That makes sense a good one. And I actually I
have to say today I was at the store and
I was at the cash register or you know, the register,
paying and this woman came up behind me in line,
and she was probably fifteen twenty years older me. She said,
how do you stay so skinny? Which I thought was
kind of a weird question to ask a stranger, and
(23:12):
I just kind of was taken aback by it, and
I said, I I think I have good genes, Like
my whole family's pretty thin, So again, genetic, you know.
Also you know that could be different depending on your lifestyle.
But yeah, we're yeah, yeah, my all my families thin. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Okay, our page are here present.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Question.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Okay, look, so.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
No people are gonna love this episode. They wanted to
last forever, so really so okay this one.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Spit it out, do it?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Subscribe and comment please?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Disney made a movie about periods in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Whoa, And I'm gonna I'm gonna repeat that again.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Disney made movies about periods in the nineteen forties Plural
or One Earth?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Just want I still say Disney made a movie in
the nineteen forties. Yep, Pages now a Disney princess.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
She knows for Disney that she's trying.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I'm saying it's a myth.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, I think it's a myth.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I want to say myth, but I feel like it's
a fact.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
So this is when they tried to make one, but
it probably wasn't really that accurate.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
So look at this they did.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Anything they say about women in the forties, babe, a big.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
One they did.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
First of all, I didn't even watch it, but it's accessible.
I could see the YouTube, no way, and I thought,
maybe we'll link it to the your listen, Yeah, and
then everyone's gonna watch to watch it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Never done. Yeah, yeah, we watch it. So Disney did
make a movie about period and that it's stereo.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
It's called the Story of Menstruation and it was funded
by Cotex.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's an explainer for tweens on what about they hit
their ovaries very soon the forties? Yeah, it's like blow.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I mean that's way before.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Like it's not that great, that's awesome. I want to
watch it. Yeah, we're watching it.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And right after that movie they go roll right into
How to Be a Good House.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That's but let's let's stress.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, it was a different time, right, and it's great
that it's.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay allowed to joke about it, exist I know, is
talking crazy?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Oh, come on, stop.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Actually agreed, but anyway, what myth or fact?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yes, sunscreens should only be worn in the sun.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
They want you to wear it all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Know, like you when if you drive a lot, if
you drive a lot, even though your windows up, windows
are up, you're getting good hit by the sun.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Zon So even in the winter time, only negative effects
for the sun.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So I say, myth, what do you say?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Myth?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I forget the question. Sun's pretens should only be worn
in the sun. Yeah, myth, I want you to wear
it all the time. Who's they? The people, doctors and everyone. Anyways,
there's two types of UV.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Okay, So there's UV raised from lighting as well.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
As U V A raised and there's V B.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Right, So U B A is actually like how I
learned it in school, is U B A is aging.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
UV B is burning. Even if you're not burning in
the sun, you're still.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Aging the race. Thus the age spots that I have
all over my body.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And that results in being a tan.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Italian when you're young, and then you'll.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Be older and.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Always it's we're all talking at the same time.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I hope you can all figure out what everyone's saying.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fine, then you guys are all ruining my big one.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, A rare period disorder can cause bleeding out of
the eyes.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
What I hope it's a myth.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I literally can't believe you even saw that. It has
to be a myth.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I can't believe.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
In fact, no, that is disturbing.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Known as my carious menstruation, this rare condition makes you
bleed from organs besides your uterus like your eyes while
you're on your period. According to a case study published
in this journal that I.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Linked that you can link and.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Studying, I don't know, but only a handful of cases
have been recorded.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
But with the study, he says the condition is caused
when endometrial tissue, which normally grows.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In your un spread URIs trim.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
But just went to the emergency room actually recently for
that and they thought my andretris went to my lungs ide,
that's a thing my lungs because they thought it did
you never got it checked out. I don't know if
it did or not, but yes.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I was, you should probably check on that throwing up.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
So they thought, yeah, the same thing that I went
to terrifying from when I was at your guys.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
They think that that could have been the cause of
what I was experiencing at your.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Nothing to mess around.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Go to a doctor when it comes to serums and products.
If it burns in stings, it works myth are fact.
Oh myth. Yes, it means your barrier skin barrier probably
isn't good. You shouldn't moisturize oily skin.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Myth are fact math act.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I mean you shouldn't moisturize oily skin.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's a myth because oily. Actually it means it's over compensation.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I wonder I have materials soap. Oh you well, I'm
going to end the podcast. Antibacterial soap is best for skin,
no fact.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I don't know if it's best, but I use it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It's a myth. You have natural like bacteria and oils
on your skin, okay, yeah, speaking of you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Never I don't use it on my face, just my hands.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
So now I just want to end it with something
we all know because everyone has heard of it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But just to just one more time.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Remember before her mission in nineteen eighty three, NASA engineers
asked Sally Ride if she would need one hundred tampons
for the week of her period in space. Myth or fact, No,
this is just fact. Her response, No, that would not
(29:48):
be the right number.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, it was the right number.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
But actually they guys a week ask.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Do you need one hundred tampons for the week in
space or your period?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
One week?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
One hundred tampons? Hundred? Oh okay, they thought we were
changing them every second. I think, oh well no.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I just was like, well, what did she say? The
number is like, I mean, no, that's definitely okay.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So this isn't a fact.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I mean, if you're going through that many, I mean
that's consultant.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
After Yeah, tampons are sold in boxes of eighteen for
a reason, because so this is I didn't include this
because it's so contradictory, but like one of the studies
said that they're sold in boxes of eighteen because they
did a study that said the average amount of tampons
used during your cycle was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No, but it really does depend because that other same different.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Studies said that women, some women used like forty some tampons.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Okay, well, they also have like super regular. They also
have different signs.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So I have one, I have one really really heavy day.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Well I'll go through like five and no four and
then the rest of it four, five, six, maybe eight
eight total in my career. But I have a really
I have one extremely heavy day every other day is
like very likely you have two bangs out on one buck.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thank you, Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That wraps it up for today. Thanks for joining us
on Let's Talk Midlife Crisis. We hope you got some laughs,
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