Considering men default humans and women an “other,” is the exact bias that has held back medical care for half the fucking population.
Everyone’s hormones are always in flux, every day. Eating food can drastically affect your hormones. Aerobic excercise can affect your hormones. Men have hormonal cycles as well.
What you wrote here about costs associated with medical research on women seems paraphrased from some out-of-date medical journal. Unless menstrual cycles are being studied, you do not “have to do all kinds of correction and analyses” to make sure they’re not affecting that study. I have no idea where you heard that, and would go as far as to say you just made it up. I don’t even know where to begin with the pregnancy test thing, unless you’re thinking of only medical trials, specifically.
It’s not only clinical trials where you test on people, chemically. There are a ton of tests for skin care products to compare their effectiveness. These have already gone through trials for safety but long-term research on their effects is important.
One example is the anti-acne medication Accutane which is known to cause birth defects. This drug cannot be given to women who may be pregnant under any circumstances. I believe doctors even require proof that the patient is on birth control before prescribing it.
As for menstrual cycles: they are known to affect skin, hair, joint mobility, pain sensitivity, mood, food preferences, weight, and more. Tons and tons of studies are affected by this. Everything from dieting to mental health care, skin care, hair care, and even sports medicine, exercise, and recovery from injury.
I’ve read plenty of specific papers on the subject of menstrual cycles and effects of hormones and, in short, well, you’re kinda full of shit. I don’t think you know what a menstrual cycle or hormones actually are, and I don’t think you’ve read tons and tons of studies on how hormones affect our bodies. Because you’re just kind of explaining being a person. Those are the things that hormones affect for everyone, every day. And women do not have more of them than men.
Considering men default humans and women an “other,” is the exact bias that has held back medical care for half the fucking population.
Everyone’s hormones are always in flux, every day. Eating food can drastically affect your hormones. Aerobic excercise can affect your hormones. Men have hormonal cycles as well.
What you wrote here about costs associated with medical research on women seems paraphrased from some out-of-date medical journal. Unless menstrual cycles are being studied, you do not “have to do all kinds of correction and analyses” to make sure they’re not affecting that study. I have no idea where you heard that, and would go as far as to say you just made it up. I don’t even know where to begin with the pregnancy test thing, unless you’re thinking of only medical trials, specifically.
It’s not only clinical trials where you test on people, chemically. There are a ton of tests for skin care products to compare their effectiveness. These have already gone through trials for safety but long-term research on their effects is important.
One example is the anti-acne medication Accutane which is known to cause birth defects. This drug cannot be given to women who may be pregnant under any circumstances. I believe doctors even require proof that the patient is on birth control before prescribing it.
As for menstrual cycles: they are known to affect skin, hair, joint mobility, pain sensitivity, mood, food preferences, weight, and more. Tons and tons of studies are affected by this. Everything from dieting to mental health care, skin care, hair care, and even sports medicine, exercise, and recovery from injury.
I’ve read plenty of specific papers on the subject of menstrual cycles and effects of hormones and, in short, well, you’re kinda full of shit. I don’t think you know what a menstrual cycle or hormones actually are, and I don’t think you’ve read tons and tons of studies on how hormones affect our bodies. Because you’re just kind of explaining being a person. Those are the things that hormones affect for everyone, every day. And women do not have more of them than men.