{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Hormonal Hotline","title":"The Science of Feeling Like a Different Person","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f5576350\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3372,"description":"\nTW: trauma, abuse, self-blame\n\nIf you've ever felt like a completely different person in the two weeks before your period — spiralling, overwhelmed, unable to get out of bed — this one is for you. Ellisha sits down with Elena Venturelli, a PhD researcher, women's health educator, and PMDD sufferer herself, to break down what PMDD actually is, why it's so chronically misunderstood, and what the future of PMDD research looks like.\n\nThey also go somewhere raw and real: the link between PMDD and trauma, abusive relationships, and the years of self-blame that so many of us carry without ever knowing why.\n\n\nWhat we cover\n\n\nWhat PMDD actually is, and why it's not just 'bad PMS'\nThe symptoms that hit differently: visceral depression, rage, emotional reactivity, and that instant relief the moment your period arrives\nWhy a blood test won't diagnose PMDD and what's actually going on in the brain\nThe hormonal belt Elena is developing to monitor women's hormones 24/7 (yes, really)\nElena's own PMDD story, from symptoms at 14, diagnosis at 17, the youngest ever HRT, and a four-year abusive relationship that took everything\nWhy people with PMDD are more vulnerable to gaslighting and abusive relationships\nThe trauma-PMDD link\nThe heritability rate and why that doesn't have to be a sentence\nThe hormones-gut-brain triad: Elena's framework for managing PMDD holistically\nWhy women's health research is built on a foundation of studying men and what needs to change\nQuick fire: the one symptom you didn't realise was hormonal, what Elena would add to the NHS, and what she wishes someone had validated sooner\n\n\nAbout Elena Venturelli\n\n\nElena is a PhD researcher working to develop better tools for studying women's hormones - because the current ones were designed around male bodies. She's also a women's health educator, PMDD sufferer, and coach for women with hormonal sensitivities. Follow her work and find her content across social media.\n\n\nOur sponsor\n\n\nEvelyn Health is dedicated to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lPk3ICO79wNq0iJHgObQZZOsRpZyoNUh-NOR2XsCUt0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNWIz/MTkzM2IxYTNhY2Ji/MDdiMWYzYzkzNDNi/YjgzNy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}