Tag: Diabetes

How does blood sugar change over the course of the menstrual cycle?

“It has never been easier to accurately track our health. With smart watches, continuous glucose monitors, and a plethora of fertility monitoring devices, we now have the ability to gather precise data on many of our various biomarkers. A recent study from the University of Toronto and Queen’s University in Canada used various biotechnologies to allow participants to draw connections between their menstrual cycle and their blood sugar [1]. The conclusions from this study will help women with diabetes better tailor their insulin dosages. Women who are insulin resistant or pre-diabetic can also use this data to more fully understand how to naturally control their blood glucose.”

Read more at Natural Womanhood.

What is gender-specific medicine and how will it help women get better medical care?

“During her 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson was asked a surprisingly hot-button question: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” The now-Supreme Court Justice replied, “I can’t… I’m not a biologist.”

But does it really take a biologist to define what it means to be a woman or a man? After all, even infants as young as three months of age can distinguish between male and female faces [1]. 

Justice Jackson’s answer does point to a bit of truth, however. Certain aspects of what makes a woman a woman (or what makes a man a man) can be gleaned from scientific studies that go more than skin-deep. Gender-specific medicine (also called sex/gender-specific medicine or sex-and-gender-sensitive medicine in medical research), is a new field of science that seeks to discover exactly this: how male and female bodies differ in their disease development and response due to differences below the surface, from their hormones, to their brain structures, to their internal physiology, and even down to their DNA. In other words, gender-specific medicine recognizes (and aims to further discover) the inherent differences between men and women and the vast implications those differences have for how medicine can best treat both male and female patients.”

Read more at Natural Womanhood.