Could Your Menstrual Cup Diagnose Endometriosis? Scientists Are Working On It
CRAMPED4 Nov 2025

Could Your Menstrual Cup Diagnose Endometriosis? Scientists Are Working On It

You know how many diseases are diagnosed or monitored by drawing blood from a vein in your arm and running tests on it? Would those tests still work if you ran them on menstrual blood? It's not THAT crazy, right? So why did the first research into this only start TWELVE YEARS AGO??

In this subscriber-only episode, Kate covers the (brief) history of how western medicine has thought of menstrual blood, and introduces you to three organizations currently developing diagnostic tests to be done on period blood. What if you could dip a test strip in your menstrual cup and find out if you have endometriosis?? Or diabetes, or cervical cancer, or an STI? What if a natural bodily fluid that's been thought of as "stinky and useless" throughout the course of modern medicine could...actually be the key to solving the mysteries of these diseases?

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Check out the ROSE Study here: https://www.northwell.edu/news/insights/outsmarting-endometriosis

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