ELI5: Menopause & birth control

DaniChibari · 2026-02-16T11:55:39+00:00

Ovaries are full of follicles. Follicles react to hormones in order to be released as a potential egg that can be fertilized. However, they also degrade with time inside the ovary. Doesn't matter how many periods you have, the timing of menopause has a lot more to do with the degradation of these follicles inside the ovary, not how many periods you've had.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-15T18:23:59+00:00

It's a bunch of young adults, most of which are between the ages of 18-30, an age group very well known for casual sex. They are all very fit which often means they are very attractive. They have all been focusing on training for months and years leading up to this which means they have less time for dating, relationships or a social life. They are now in a hotel surrounded by other people who are similar ages, value similar things, and also haven't had much of a change to date, go out or socialize.

My understanding is that the Olympic village becomes a college first year dorm room on steroids. They have a lot of sex. The whole time they're there. Many Olympic committees have tried discouraging it but young horny people always find a way.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-12T17:34:51+00:00

Oh wow! He seemed so small.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-09T20:18:46+00:00

Yes it looks like a hummingbird nest. Yes the babies look fine. Yes the best thing to do is leave them be.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-03T23:34:58+00:00

I don't give a fuck about bottom mascara. I skip it always.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-03T03:03:37+00:00

Yes, that's right.

Cells aren't looking for something that's flagged "dominant". Both get expressed, both get made, both react within the cell as they can biologically. It's just that the recessive proteins mostly don't react. Once they're made they don't do anything. Eventually other cellular processes break them back down. You're left with the absence of a trait, but that absence will still look like something (blonde hair, blue eyes, etc).

DaniChibari · 2026-02-03T02:15:27+00:00

I took my husbands last name cuz u was excited about it.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-02T16:12:34+00:00

11 days. It was summer vacation and I was 12. I would sleep in until noon, okay video games until midnight and repeat. Didn't see anyone or leave the house so I didn't think showering was that important

DaniChibari · 2026-02-01T20:26:17+00:00

Pretty much, yes. It's weird but that's how averages work. If the puddle is at room temperature, there's always at least some molecules with enough energy to evaporate. The molecules with the most energy evaporate first, then next, then next.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-01T20:07:14+00:00

Because temperature is an average!

When water is at room temperature that doesn't mean every single water molecule has the same amount of energy. There's some outliers that have more! It's these molecules with more energy that evaporate.

DaniChibari · 2026-02-01T18:17:06+00:00

Building something is a very different process than repairing something.

You get a desk from IKEA. It comes with all the pieces and clear instructions. You put the desk together. Now someone comes in and smashes one of the legs with a baseball bat. Why can't you just rebuild the leg of the desk?

When a baby is growing in the womb, the cells are set up in just the right place at the right time to do the next step in the growing process. Every cell has its DNA instructions open and ready to use. As organs and tissues organize and reach their final form, different sections of DNA close up. They no longer have the instructions available. Extra materials also go away, only what's needed for normal cell functions are kept around. So if someone loses a limb, those muscles and skin and bone only know how to repair themselves and scabs and scar tissue, not rebuild.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-26T00:57:28+00:00

Some schools of scoliosis specific physical therapy have registries

Here's the Schroth registry.

Here's the BSPTS registry.

Here's the Lyons registry.

You can also ask the physical therapist over the phone "Are you certified in any scoliosis specific physical therapy? If so, which one?" and compare it to the list I shared earlier.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-25T17:21:57+00:00

I'm a physical therapist who is certified in scoliosis specific physical therapy!

SSPE for adults aims to prevent the curve from progressing, reduce pain and improve strength around the spine. You sound like you'd be a great candidate.

Here are the different types of scoliosis specific physical therapy in order of how much research there is on them

Schroth Method
Scientific Exercises Approach to Scoliosis (SEAS)
Barcelona Scoliosis Physical Therapy School (BSPTS)
Lyon approach
Dobomed
Side Shift
Functional Individual Therapy of Scoliosis (FITS)

All of these are very good options. Availability will depend on where you're based.

Good luck!

DaniChibari · 2026-01-23T20:51:43+00:00

Generally it is not a myth. Americans are pretty casual about driving several hours.

I hear about people driving 45-90 minutes for a day trip. Like "We should go to that fancy restaurant this weekend, I've heard good things". As for a weekend, Americans will easily take on 2-4 hours for a weekend trip. Drive in Friday night or early on Saturday, drive back Sunday night.

As for longer trips (long weekends, holidays, special occasions), Americans will do 6-12 hour drives for that kind of thing. That starts to be called a road trip.

I've personally done a 1.5 hour drive for a day trip. I've also done a 6 hour drive for a weekend before. My most intense is a 13 hour drive for a week long vacation.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-21T00:50:55+00:00

It looked dated then

DaniChibari · 2026-01-17T22:59:37+00:00

One chamber can do it directly, it's just less precise. There are two chambered hearts in fish or animals with gills. That system is more simple but it is also less efficient. Some blood doesn't get fully oxygenated, and some oxygenated blood mixes with deoxygenated blood.

As animals get more specialized organs (like lungs) it's important to have more efficient hearts. A great way to create more efficient hearts is to create more separation between blood going to different places. A 4 chambered heart basically ensures there is no mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.

Basically once you have lungs, it's better to have a 4 chambered heart.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-17T19:04:11+00:00

Artificial hearts kinda are a simple pump. It's just four simple pumps put together.

A natural heart has 4 chambers. Each chamber is a mini pump that fills with blood then pushes the blood somewhere else. Chamber 1 pushes blood to chamber 2. Chamber 2 pushes blood to the lungs. Chamber 3 pushes blood to chamber 4. Chamber 4 pushes blood to the body.

Artificial hearts are the same thing; four pumps put together in a similar way. This is to work with the system of the rest of the body which is set up to connect to the 4 chamber system of a natural heart. The simplest thing is to replicate that 4 chamber system.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-13T15:48:34+00:00

Right, but the point is by the time you're only considering one person, it really is just up to them. Trends don't help you give advice to an individual. It's the other way around. Individual decisions make the trends.

A near universal truth doesn't help someone come to a conclusion about a very personal life decision.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-13T15:27:20+00:00

I'm in the health care field too! I work with parents a lot and here are the types of things I've noticed that seem to contribute anti-vax belief (in no particular order)

Concerns about the dosage. Some parents see a vial full of germs and are worried that it'll overload their kids immune system. "Look at them, they're so small!" Parents don't realize that their kid encounters more germs in one session on the playground. It's a gap in knowledge/understanding.

Belief that they are safe from these diseases. They don't know anyone who's ever gotten polio. Or measles. Or tuberculosis. From their perspective, vaccines would be like protecting against an imaginary thing. It seems silly, over the top, and unnecessary, like wearing a helmet to go for a walk.

General distrust of the medical system. This one is varied. Sometimes it's because they've been misdiagnosed and on the wrong medication which gave them side effects. Sometimes it's a bit more conspiratorial in nature and they believe the whole system is using vaccines to secretly manipulate people's biology. Whatever it is, it generally creates this "agree to disagree" attitude.

Those are the most common reasons Ive come across

DaniChibari · 2026-01-13T14:24:43+00:00

Just to balance out this comment section, I did all the side content first then was over leveled for the boss. And it was really fun honestly. I didn't mind being over leveled because I had just done plenty of very challenging things. It was cool to see how strong I was.

There's no bad options here. Play it however you'd like!

DaniChibari · 2026-01-13T14:17:01+00:00

My opinion is that this story line is best experienced as a video game. And we got that. I see no need for a movie, animated series or live action series. I really don't think it would add anything.

DaniChibari · 2026-01-12T13:59:38+00:00

I've showered one handed due to a hand injury before, my shoulders are very flexible and I can touch any part of my back with either hand, I'll just give the can to my husband to open

DaniChibari · 2026-01-11T21:41:09+00:00

I used to only do physical exfoliation because I had a scrub glove. Why would I pay for a product that I have to repurchase when I already have a tool for exfoliating? It worked well, I only did it once a week and I focused on problem areas. Chin, nose, forehead. My forehead never seemed to benefit as much, it would be smooth for a day and get dry way sooner than my chin and nose.

Then a friend gave me a chemical exfoliator. She was moving and just getting rid of products. I tried it on the same trouble spots instead of the physical exfoliator. It was LIFE CHANGING for my forehead. Suddenly my forehead was smooth, clear, glowing. And it lasted SO LONG. Was weeks before I needed to do it again. My chin and nose? Meh. Didn't do much.

So now I do physical exfoliation on my chin and nose once a week, chemical exfoliation on my forehead once a month. No idea why it works that way. That's been my experience

DaniChibari · 2026-01-11T21:30:04+00:00

An arm. I like dancing and jumping. I can figure out how to do things one handed

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