How menstruation works - Emma Bryce
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At this moment, three hundred million women across the planet are experiencing the same thing: a period. The monthly menstrual cycle that gives rise to the period is a reality that most women on Earth will go through in their lives. But why is this cycle so universal? And what makes it a cycle in the first place? Emma Bryce gives a primer on periods.
Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Kozmonot Animation Studio.
I read a comment that perfectly described periods.
"Uterus is preparing for baby and putting up elephant wall paper. Uterus is told that there will be no baby. Uterus flies jnto a rage and rips off elephant wall paper, screaming in pain. Uterus will repeat this cycle next month."
Uterus : REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
omg. my feelings NOW
It's in this video
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my poor uterus is just lonley :'(
@@Akarsh- Yeah...I watched it just before this one.
It's amazing how isolated I feel on my period even though millions of women are dealing with it at the same time...
Delaney Winton 👏
That’s what’s wrong with western society, too individualized.
@@MsHeartIsArt
Not just western society it happens all around the world
How to relieve menstrual cramps.
medifyme.in/relieve-menstrual-cramps/
Same
Uterus wants baby
You don't have baby
Uterus wants revenge
Explained. You're welcome.
good one
hehehehe very funny n real
nice
Which pain is worst though. Period or childbirth?
ohhh indeed childbirth...it's scientifically classified as the second most hurtful pain after getting burned alive... our dear mothers deserve more than our lives ♥
Uterus: you have two options
A.Baby
B.No Baby
You: No baby please
Uterus:Wrong answer
You: oh no
Lauren C 😂😂😂
You: Baby
Uterus: 🆒
You: oh no
Help, I am dying of laugh
🤣
Lol
We get punished for NOT having children, nice one uterus.
Ikr? So rude
@Pixie Dust mmmm I get what you mean. I mean I guess the only way you _could_ see it as a punishment is bc of the pain that comes with it but honestly it’s just a natural thing that occurs that shows that you are going to be able to carry a child
Pixie Dust u probably don’t have painful periods
@Pixie Dust i agree and Infact its for the better as it prevents infections but unfortunately sometimes the pain can be quite unbearable
@@SubliminalQueen368 periods can be very painful and inconvenient, but they do save you from infections, so there’s always a silver lining 💕
I'm a 37 year old guy, and I've had decent sex ed. But this TED-Ed was the best I've had on the menstrual cycle. What a great and simple video that explains such an important process so clearly and quickly.
Totally agree. Very concise and the best I’ve seen so far.
If we get pregnant, we suffer
If we don't get pregnant, we suffer
So we suffer either way :)
I'll deal with period than a child. 😁
But you can get a surgery to stop both. :)
@@thecatarmy3485 I wish it were that easy, a hysterectomy (removing the uterus) has many physical and mental consequences..
@@leeen7755
Well, some people have to get it (like my mum) so they don’t get cancer in the uterus...
I mostly feel bad for being a guy because i have a really low pitched voice and I wish it was a bit more cuter lol and also because I hate keeping my hair short because my school doesn't allow boy's to have bigger hair(I look really beautiful in longer hair and short hair doesn't suit me)but after getting know that girls get periods a few years ago made me feel lucky that I'm a guy lol
I'm here because the public school system failed me
I feel u 😔
Its been 9 months... so how’s the baby?
American? Don't ask how I know
Yeah. 😔
Guessing ur American.. I just know
We all definitely need to learn more about these things.
I heard about this girl (friend of a friend) whose boyfriend got annoyed when she had to deal with her period; he thought she could simply hold it in, like when you need to pee.
It's also a real obstacle to education for girls many places, because they don't have access to sanitary products, so the alternative is to bleed at school. This keeps many at home, also because it's often a taboo subject
Your are so right especially women in third world countries
Bro really thought we can hold period like pee 💀
Me: I don't want a baby I'm not even 18
Uterus: honey, you got a big storm coming.
Me: pls stop I dont wanna have children in my life ever and I wont ever get a boyfriend so what's the point
Uterus: n o
A flood lol
you can stop at five or six stores or just one
Hello
The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
LMFAO
+nymeria63 that fact that you laughed at this made me laugh haha
+Don Williams can somebody explain that joke to me please
+CrazyMarkSRB it's not
+CrazyMarkSRB
It's sort of an in-joke, especially for people who don't like school or heard others say the same. Like learning stuff you most likely wont need; the mitochondria is the power house of the cell.
i am studyin medicine, and i have read, saw and pretty much lived through some very intruguing and brreathtaking experiences, but the most mind baffling, mesmerizing thing that i have came across is most definetly the menstrual cycle, and to think that women go through this approximately 400-450 times in their life is just out of this world!
Ikr.....
"You're unique, just like everybody else" - What's wrong with this phase?
+Person it means that it is fine to be different, because everyone else is a bit different. Though that phrase just gives a bit of a negative mood about it.
Haha
There is actually nothing wrong with it though. If everyone has a different set of traits then everyone can be unique. I don't think "being unique" counts as a trait. If it did, only one person could be unique. If any two people were both unique then they would share the trait of being unique and this not be unique.
***** yep, they always lied to you
it's a paradox. If everyone is unique, then they all have a similarity. But, then again, they can still be unique without being the only unique one.
Trashcan Furry
*activate existential crisis*
while I guess I learned something as a dude. respect girls, I'm happy I don't have to deal with that.
ur lucky
Simp
simp
Simp
Masterpro Masterpro if he’s a simp then why are you on this video in the first place?
I wish they had highlighted how much the pains can really be. It’s redicukous how we are expected to work through that
The one critique I would make of this video (and so many explanations of the menstrual cycle) is there’s never any mention of the work the uterine muscles do.
It’s not as if a timer goes off in your uterus and your period just falls out. Menstrual cramps feel a lot like the onset of labor pains and there’s a reason for that. It’s the same muscles at work, trying to clear the decks so that the cycle can begin again.
And when one considers that historically doctors told generations of women that cramps were all in their head, I think it only fair to make the facts at least as commonly known now, as that “common knowledge” was once upon a time.
Thank you for this! I had no idea that that's what causes the cramps
Thank God I don't get cramps
Also, not all cycles are 28 days long. Cycles can be a wide range of days (21-35) and it's different for every person.
I know that it sucks to have periods, trust me.
But, eventhough we have to deal with this crap every month, if you think about it, the entire complicated process that causes your periods is truly fascinating.
Personally, no matter how fascinating, it just makes me want to rip out my stomach. Even when I'm not having my period, it just makes me uncomfortable.
nope, just painful
yeah. Tell that to my raging uterus right now.
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Miraculous
respect girls. they suffer a lot :)
dheeniyas Ahamed yes
This is a biological process and we don't suffer because WE ARE TOUGH 😎
Nope, they don't! They enjoy fashion more than males (examples: long hair, makeup, jewelry, short clothes, lingerie, wearing heels, body piercings, stripping, threading, waxing, shaving, manicure, pedicure, etc...)!! Their fashion list is just endless, man!!
Girls are taught at an early to care about their appearance and it helps the marketing business sell stuff like expensive jewelry, clothes, make up, etc. They don't pitch stuff like that to boys. Guys could put more effort into the way they look if they were taught to care about it but they aren't. The best you could hope for is a sweet haircut lol
no I will press F for my exams
uterus: I want a baby
me: I'm too young
uterus: so you choose death
I like the term "moon cycle" XD
Random dude: Women are weak
Me: Can you bleed for 8 days straight without dying of bloodloss
Depends.
How much blood are talking about?
And pain equal to kidney stones too
@@SirSadness Hmm.....how much red paint would it take to paint a whole two story house?
@@thepotato4802 more than a bucket... theoretically
@@SirSadness Hmmm around as much to paint the entire house plus some more left.
I don't want kids. I hate periods
+Sonya Sever you stop having periods after you get kids though...
+Kilic The Creator what??? no
+Kilic The Creator
Lmao in another comment thread you made fun of someone for learning something new in the video by asking them if they were in seventh grade and then you say this dumb shit. I guess you mean you don't get them while you are pregnant? You get them again after you have the baby, otherwise how could people have two kids??
+Kilic The Creator you stop getting periods during a pregnancy, before and after a child you have your periods
meanwhile Darwin facepalm himself
God, thank that I'm a potato.
Potato
+Yosyp Thank potato that I'm a god.
+DW Rose Thank Godhead Pickle Inspector that I'm a can of Pringles.
+Yosyp Thank you potato
*Mother nature makes everything have a period*
anyone wanna have a gender swap for a sec? i promise we'll change back...
no thank you...😂😂
+Lola Popente
Hard pass :D
+Lola Popente Yes please, being a woman is easy mode.
+Roscoe Horse Being a horse is Easier Mode.
Does it hurt?
Isn't it curious that a woman's average cycle is 28 days similar to moons rotation around the earth? Considering that the mating cycles of many species are based on the position of moon, we women are probably more linked with the moon than we think..
Yes, that is amazing :))
Avatar?
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@@mgA757 malayali illatha sthalam ondo
That's... not true at all. You're about to say tht cancer is being controlled by the position of Jupiter or something
Wow I thought it was just me. As a male, I always wondered why I bled from my penis once every 28 days. This makes so much more sense.
Thefack?
Are u sure ur not just sticking a screwdriver inside it?
So you only have sex once a week, we didn't need to know that :)
+HighlyFabulous69 Cocksounding ? Oh god
+Kamel, K You have a UTI every month?
TED-ED is so good at teaching people and empowering them at the same time!
I love shedding the remains of an unborn child every month
You just made it sound more messed up that what they explained it as.
+Zipper If there was a child you wouldn't have a period.
More like the food and shelter
thanks
Zipper its a pleasure
Basically, periods are your body's way of saying: "screw you for not getting pregnant."
*Sigh* Women just can't catch a break. X'D
@GABRIELLE FOUST And the package won't go away for the next 18-20 years
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@@gayathrisajeev4397 exactly 💯 👏 👌 🙌
Getting pregnant or having a baby isn't everything!! For example, would you like your teenage daughter, to get pregnant while she was still in secondary school
Nobody:
Periods: I'm about to end this whole woman's life
Mad respect to all girls
MAD RESPECT
YALL STRONG AF
I am just happy I don't have to deal with all that
Sometimes my period skips a month or two if I am highly stressed.
Ive had that happen to me before. Where i skipped a month and like u said stress can really throw off a menstrual cycle most definitely.
I feel bad but then again I’m jealous-
Same I’m worried it’ll just pop up out of no where and will be paranoid, it’s very irregular on top of being heavy af
I use to get mine every 3 months now I get it every month
Beautifully sent message about girls studying in STEM at the end of the video. I hope many young girls get to see this informative video and understand their bodies better.
This video is the best I have got so far to understand the concept. Thank you Ted!
Thanks for making this taboo-free. Thank you so much.
This video is extremely empowering. It helps women to know the root of this peculiar process making it look beautiful and a natural thing. Great Job.
I don’t see what empowering about bleeding every month, having hormonal fluctuations and debilitating pain that stops you from doing everyday activities. Having periods is like being in a prison within your own body. I’m so jealous men don’t have them.
I know. I wish someone could make a thing to stop periods
@@NHY6CK I know right doing activities while on it is overwhelming and stressful
This was so well explained! Thank you
They are legit listening to our calls now. I just told someone on a call that I was in pain because of my period and couldn't go somewhere. Literally 5 min ago and when I open this app this is the first suggestion. Looooool
This was very helpful for my biology course, thank you!
Everybody's talking about their periods while I just gawk at how inspring the ending sounded
Beautifully explained.
What a beautiful presentation, this information is so useful to me as a man, I've been on this planet for nearly 30 years and all I needed was less than 5 minutes to understand such an important issue. Really shows how easy it is to have a huge blind spot in important knowledge.
Explained in a very concise and simplistic way
Efforts much appreciated
I was playing this at full volume to annoy my older sister cus she gets super embarrassed if she hears the word "period." But it didn't work because I farted really loudly and realized I should probably make my way to the bathroom.
Wtf lmao?
I love this video somehow I understand things better when it's animated thanks
The way this is explained and animated makes me wish I had seen this while learning about menstruation in school.🥰❤👌
this should be taught to everyone
This is beautiful and very helpful thank you very much for this explanation
At the end of the video, the girl turns into what appears to be a chemist. It would have been better if she had instead turned into a physicist.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky why?
+BeRsErKeR16 cause fuck you that's why
I thought she turned pregnant lol
me too!
+Magnhild Riise Oh yeah, it does look like that.
0:57 ohhhh here it comes
warning for people with trypophobia
+Mikorin Megane I just thought it looked like a doughnut with pink blueberries.
+Mikorin Megane What is trypophobia?
zekky1000
Phobia of holes.
+RocketPawnch lots of small holes
+Mikorin Megane I looked up what trypophobia is and got some very... VERY disturbing pictures.
Periods are really hurting but sometimes I love this pain 😊
are u ok? 😭
@@sienh yes sister 😊
The girls in this vid looked too happy, they don’t know what they’re gonna go through so sad :’(
Thanks for giving us this very very very helpful and important information...
BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION MENSTRUAL CYCLE TOPIC COVERED THANK YOU TED-Ed AND TEAM
This is well explained and excellent documentation.
Me: 1st day of menstruation this month, bad cramps and everything
CZcams:
Me: *hit 11 years old*
Uterus: where baby?
No baby pls
When I'm 24 😂
INCREDIBLE NARRATION OMG CONGRATS TED ED
This is just the video I was looking to show my daughter during our talk this weekend
Went though a period of ovulation a while ago. It hurt. Passed out while going to the bathroom to get Tylenol
Well you should have started with the hypothalamus and GnRH witch stimulates the anterior pituitary to release FSH and LH :) otherwise a good video.
Oooohhh that brings memories back from my Last year of high school!!
Amazingly explained and animated 👏👏 Thanks for this video
perfect manner of telling
Not specifically every 28 days
Karol Co
Yes, sometimes ladies can skip the month...
i kept seeing FSH as FISH lmao
"Yep we're releasing the FISH from the brain"
brilliant explanation
Oh my gosh!!! This helped me sooo much Thank youuuu
Please make a video about why women have PMS or are moody when their period is about to arrive. It will help a ton of confused boyfriends and husbands and will make relationships better.
The 28 day thing is only true for some. Cycles can last up to 42 days.,
Not true. I have had in the past where I didn't get a period for 4 almost 5 months.
@@stephaniejane306 Actually, not having it for more than two months it's medically considered amenorrhea, I suffered that condition, and I'm sure many other women have experienced as well :)
Before I started birth control I only got a period every other month.
🤚
I've had before went without a period and or skipped a month. But my periods so far now have come by come so crazy. Im waiting for my period now to start because its due
I love this video..Thanks TED-Ed!
I was so grateful to learn that healthy diet and nutrition, among other things, reduced the intense comfort I experienced each month.
Few days before period comes, it is Normal to be moody or having a mood swing like a high and low extreme emotions? I totally experience having hormonal mood swing. I don't know if other women experience the same way like me.
It's been my experience that almost every problem has an upside. For instance, I have always felt that my creativity was enhanced during
my period. Wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar.
I agree. I used to hold onto the victim mindset that "women can't catch a break" but then I realized that was exhausting and getting me nowhere. I've found that sometimes I'm super confident on my period which allows me to do things that normally take forever. That doesn't happen every period but more often than not which is nice.
@@morgandodson9838👍
at year 7, i studied this subject in science and i didn't barely understand it! But thanks that i watched this vid because it helped me more on what is happening in the 'vagaga' much more clearly!
+Kilic The Creator nope
+Kilic The Creator i am in year 9
as you call it
'9th grade'
+Kilic The Creator
*you're
are you in 7th grade?
I swear, uploaded at the perfect time 😂😂
Ok body, Thanks for noticing me I'm not pregnant, but why do you betray me like this?
0:29 2-7 days! My first couple periods later around 1-2 days and my recent periods have lasted 9-10 days!
شكرااااا كتير توضحت الفكرة مع الفيديو !✓
Women are so beautiful. As a 21yo guy, I'm ashamed to say I don't think about Mentration nearly enough and all that it does in a woman's body. Truly amazing.
But why do period sync up when females live in close proximity within each other for a long time?
+boy638 lol many reasons, it could be due to coincidences, environmental factors, they may have the same diet ect...but i believe it's mostly coincidences
+boy638 Apparently it could have something to do with the hormones released which affect other women, but no one is actually sure.
It's pretty common 'though.
+sadia ali it may be because to be the same as everyone else and not to be the odd one out. i forgot the name of the effect but its like when everyone is clapping for a person, your subconcious is telling you to stand up and clap so ur not different
+FluteGeek09 I think it must be non coincidental. Nothing to back that up really except I went to an all girl's school, and eeeeveryone was in sync. Which, for the record, makes for a magical 3-7 days of wonder and merriment : )
ellensarah It's really interesting actually.
Buuuuuuut, I prefer to be rid of it. Goodbye, uterus. I never liked you anyway.
This is a great knowledge 👍👍👍
Thanks, I've never really have quite understood it until know, since I used to get mixed up
I kind of understand now. (Btw congrats on 12 million subs)
All this animation and they didn't show us a girl screaming "I'm dying" after getting her first period. If you have little sisters, daughters or you're a girl yourself, you know what I mean.
I have my period and it doesnt hurt I just feel like I'm seeing myself 😂
The first time I got a period, I can't move or else I'll feel the pain.
@@xXRusky_SevmorXx the first time I got it I didn't move either.
Uterus -" u having baby?"
Me - " no way !"
Uterus- "k, time to kill."
Me -" NOOO"!!!!!
amazing video .. please do more videos on medical topics
This is completely radical!
Weird that they talk about variations but very clearly say that the menstrual cycle is 28 days long, and the pictures of different peoples' menstrual cycles also show 28 days for all of them. The variation between different people can actually be quite big, it's usually seen as a normal length cycle if it's anything between 20 and 40 days.
Also, average is actually 29.3 days, recent studies have shown. Why people think 28 days is average is because when studies were done on menstrual cycles back in the day they purposefully only used women whose cycle was 28 days long, because if they used people with the same cycle length it was easier to compare the results between individuals, and they didn't actually know the average cycle length, they picked people with a 28 days cycle because they thought that was average.
Job should allows us to have at least one day off during our period, for me at least the second day is the worst there’s been time where i couldn’t even get out of the house for how bad my cramps are. and to top it off the nausea,vomiting and diarrhea doesn’t help at all. Its horrible!
You read my mind they should give us one day off while on it I feel really weak and dizzy
good explanation
You go girl YOU GO!!!
I still don't understand why I have to go through this every month! I don't want to have a baby uterus leave me alone!
@Subscribe1 Stop it’s not funny
I haven’t had a period before and I’m scared like I’m not gonna have kids I don’t wanna have a period
I just wanna know how people be having 2-4 days and I get a full 7 😡
Me too 💔.
I get a whole week too, my womb needs to chill, stop making so much padding, and hurry tf up
@@fwoop4848 HELP ME FWOOP
@@fwoop4848 IKR
@@fwoop4848 same here it should slow down and I use up to 15 pads
Ted ed is my school 😎. Awesome explanation with good animation👍
thank you...
Awesome video! Hopefully this is used in some health classes for all genders to understand! (Edit: from "both genders" to "all genders", this comment was little dated :) )
I hope so
*cries in nonbinary* guess I'll never understand
make a video on how to know when do you have ovulation
its different for everyone, the ovulation process, like the period, is unique to each individual. But with a little research you can find the common signs that often come with ovulation. I know mine by heart now.
it comes at the end of the time when your cervical mucus is fluid.
Lovro Musić idk how but I can just tell when I'm in my ovulation time.
Thanks 👍
Thank you😊 it is very useful