The Naked Scientist: Separating fact from fiction in menstruation

Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked Scientist · 13 April 2026 · 15m

Speaker 1: Seven two The Naked Scientist Naked Scientists time, as we do on a Monday, Get Speaker 1: all of your science related questions in and doctor Chris Smith will do his absolute Speaker 1: best to answer them. Speaker 2: Oh double one double a three seven o two in the WhatsApp line, Oh seven Speaker 2: two seven two one seven two doctor, Happy Monday. How are you doing? Speaker 3: Oh happy Monday? Labaum, I'm good. Speaker 2: How are you? I am doing really well? And I'm curious, as I usually am Speaker 2: when I'm talking to you, especially as we've come out of our Parenting and Parents Speaker 2: feature. Is there any recent information that we know around PMS and menstruation. Our previous Speaker 2: guest had has co authored a book with his daughters who are ten and thirteen, Speaker 2: and we were just speaking around what the purpose of the book really is and Speaker 2: to give a space for young girls. But I just wondered, is there any new Speaker 2: information, Like we are seeing a menstruation start much earlier, are we seeing symptoms become Speaker 2: much worse when it comes to menstruation and PMS. Speaker 3: We're certainly seeing understanding globally of the impact of the menstrual cycle, more and more Speaker 3: appreciation and more allowance and also when things do go wrong we're much better these Speaker 3: days at making accommodations for that, also taking symptoms, seriously, investigating appropriately, and then trying Speaker 3: to do something about it. And most of the time we can do a lot Speaker 3: about it. Not always, but most of the time we can. But a lot of Speaker 3: people say that…

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