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From period scooping to menstrual masking: the strange science of viral period hacks

By Katie Edwards, Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol

From scooping to skincare, online trends are reshaping how we talk about periods. But menstruation is complex, varied and still under researched.

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