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This Week in Women’s Health: Breakthroughs, Breakdowns & Breakaways
🩷 STAY ABREAST WEEKLYFor when you want health news with a side of humor (and a splash of truth‐serum)Pour that glass, because it’s time for your Top 5 women’s health stories this week—two uplifting for your soul, three worth your righteous anger. Let’s do this:
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July 06, 2025
🌿 1. Gut-Friendly Diet Might Lower High Blood Pressure
A new study (BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health) analyzing data from over 20,000 U.S. adults found that a diet rich in fiber, fermented foods, and plants—a gut-healthy DI‑GM score—was associated with a 13% lower odds of hypertension. Read more here
🧠 Stay Abreast Take:
Want heart health with gut flair? Think high-fiber smoothies, daily miso, kimchi on your tacos, and extra legumes. It’s delicious health with real numbers backing it.
🔮 2. Psychedelics show promise for postpartum depression
Researchers are exploring psychedelics (like psilocybin) as a treatment for postpartum depression—early results suggest significant mood improvements with long-lasting effects. Read more here.
🧠 Stay Abreast Take: A little trip might help new mums heal. Talk about postpartum re-FLOW!
🚨 3. Planned Parenthood Defunded… Again
A blockbuster provision in the Senate-passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” blocks Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood for one year, following a Supreme Court ruling that states can strip clinics from Medicaid coverage—even for non‑abortion services like cancer screenings, STI testing, and contraception. Read more here.
🧠 Stay Abreast Take:
This isn’t just an attack on abortion—it’s a gut punch to low-income patients who rely on Planned Parenthood for essential care. We're talking nearly 200 clinics at risk and over a million people potentially losing access. Time to call your senators and say: healthcare is not negotiable ✊
🏛️ 4. Supreme Court cuts back women’s health protections
A recent ruling shrank the scope of federal protections for women’s health, citing technical omissions in past legislation—not medical science or ethics. Read more here.
🧠 Stay Abreast Take: Congress must say the magic words or this rollback will keep coming. Feminist legal aid, where are you?
🍷🍷🫠 5. New abortion laws take effect—what changed last week
Several states popped off trigger laws after Roe’s overturn: Kentucky’s temporarily blocked, Utah bans abortions after 18 weeks, and Missouri's ban went live June 24. Read more here.
🧠 Stay Abreast Take: These aren’t footnotes—they’re immediate and brutal. Know your state laws, and stand up for bodily autonomy.
🍹Healthy(ish) Nutrition Moment
If you need to make this week’s news a little more palatable, add 1.5oz of Tequila or Vodka. 🥂Blessed be the fruit.
💌 That's the week in health: breakthroughs, belly‑aching injustice, and urgent data. Share it with your crew over drinks 🍷—and hit your reps for all the legal magic words.
Stay informed, stay empowered, and always stay abreast.
—Your Stay Abreast Team 🩷