How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Hungry Uterus
Hippocrates believed that uterus needed to be pregnant, needed to carry children in order to be healthful. So he endowed it with an s animate impulse, you know, an almost kind of sentient ability to go forth and get what it wanted. He believed that when it wasn't performing this, you kno ordained, sacred duty of being involved in the processes of reproduction, that it would shrivel.
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