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28ish Days Later

In this award-winning podcast India Rakusen explores the whole bloody story of the menstrual cycle, discovering facts that could change your life. Periods are just the beginning.

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Episodes

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Welcome to 28ish Days Later
What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? Periods are just the beginning.
15 Mar 2022,1 min
Day One: Power
India Rakusen and guests introduce you to the anatomy of the womb.
16 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Two: The Flood
India Rakusen takes us through the bleeding part of the menstrual cycle.
17 Mar 2022,16 mins
Day Three: Pain And Prejudice
India this week discusses period pain, endometriosis and medical bias.
18 Mar 2022,13 mins
Day Four: Winter
India and author Maisie Hill talk managing the cycle.
19 Mar 2022,13 mins
Day Five: Blood and Bears
India meets a conservationist with a tale of blood and myth.
20 Mar 2022,16 mins,
Day Six: The Stories We're Told
India delves into the world of menstrual advertising and art.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Seven: Oestrogen Rising
It's Day 7, spring has arrived and oestrogen is centre stage.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Eight: Hack it to Win it
India meets those biohacking the female body for sporting success.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Nine: Finding Power
India explores how your first period can shape how you feel about the rest.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Ten: Tracking
India delves into the world of menstrual tracking apps.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Eleven: The Gap
India looks into the data gap and how it impacts women.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twelve: Hysteria
India explores how women in pain have been belittled and ignored through history.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Thirteen: Get It On
Oestrogen has peaked, and ovulation is around the corner.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Fourteen: Ovulation
It's time for the big O - ovulation.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Fifteen: Baby Steps
It's day 15 and for some it's the start of the two week wait.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Sixteen: Oh Progesterone
India meets the Wednesday Adams of the hormones - progesterone.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Seventeen: PMS
India and guests talk PMS and PMDD.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Eighteen: Second Spring
India explores how we can better prepare for the symptoms of the perimenopause.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Nineteen: Kenny
India meets Kenny Ethan Jones, the first trans man to front a period campaign.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty: Chemical Disruption
India and guests investigate Hormone Chemical Disruptors.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty-One: In the Moonlight
India goes for a moon dip to find out if the menstrual cycle and the moon are connected.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty-Two: Love and the Cycle
India and her husband hear from a couple who schedule life around the cycle.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty Three: Exercycle
India chats to Dr Stacy Sims about tailoring exercise and diet to the cycle.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty Four: To Bleed or Not to Bleed
India considers hormonal contraception and asks if there's a physiological need to bleed.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty Five: Why 28 Days?
What's the normal length of a menstrual cycle? India finds out.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty-Six: The Shock
How do you choose your menstrual products? India finds out how the industry is evolving.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty-Seven: The Lessons We Learn
India examines how the cycle has been taught past and present.
21 Mar 2022,14 mins
Day Twenty-Eight: New Power
India discusses how we can improve healthcare for women
21 Mar 2022,14 mins