🩷Hormone Havoc, Lab-Grown Eggs & What the *#@%! Is Up With RFK Jr.

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📰NEWS ABOUT YOUR BODY

🌿 1. The FDA Is Scaring Women Off Safe Menopause Care
Doctors are calling out the FDA’s black-box warnings on low-dose vaginal estrogen—used for things like dryness and UTIs—as outdated and misleading. These treatments don’t carry the same cancer risks as systemic hormone therapy, but the scary labels are driving women away. The FDA just heard over 100 testimonials saying: enough already.
👉 Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: It’s not “just aging.” It’s mistreatment. We deserve facts, not fearmongering.

🧬 2. Mouse Eggs from Skin Cells—Human Fertility’s Next Leap?
Japanese scientists created lab-grown eggs from skin cells and used them to make healthy mouse pups. Human trials aren’t far off. The implications? Radical possibilities for people struggling with infertility, queer couples, and people with early menopause.
👉 Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: The future of fertility may not come from ovaries—it could come from skin. Science said “what biological clock?”

🚨 3. RFK Jr. Is Cancelling Science—And It’s Hitting Women & Kids First
As Trump’s Health Secretary, RFK Jr. has disbanded vaccine panels and paused CDC guidance for pregnant people. Now measles is back, and OB-GYNs are warning about what’s next: more maternal deaths, more misinformation, more chaos.
👉 Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: When leaders cancel science, women and kids suffer first. This isn’t fringe anymore—it’s policy.

🚨 4. Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Slash NIH Equity Grants
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to reinstate its cuts to $783 million in NIH grants tied to gender, race, and LGBTQ+ health research. A lower court blocked the move last month, calling the cuts discriminatory and politically motivated. The administration says courts shouldn’t interfere with federal funding choices.
👉 Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: When science becomes a culture war casualty, research that saves women’s lives is first on the chopping block.

🥬 5. It’s Not Laziness. It’s Lunch.
New research confirms: women (and everyone) in industrialized countries don’t move less than our ancestors—we just eat more ultra-processed, calorie-dense food. Blaming “willpower” or exercise habits misses the point.
👉 Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: You’re not broken. The food system is and guess what?! “Willpower” is not a real thing but stacking small, healthy habits together is. Don’t let diet culture gaslight your biology, empower yourself.

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📖 What We’re Reading This Week
🧠🧼 Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Big Shifts
This bestselling blueprint for behavior change reminds us that habits don’t have to be huge to matter. James Clear shows how small, consistent tweaks can build momentum—whether you’re trying to drink more water, take your meds, or finally stop doomscrolling before bed. 👉 Read more here

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: To piggyback off the article we shared above, you don’t need a total life overhaul! Just one 1% shift—on your terms, in your timeline.

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—The Stay Abreast Team 🩷
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