Millennial women are the real heroes of women’s health.

A little over a decade ago, I began my career as a health journalist. It was the moment of normalizing conversations around miscarriage and pregnancy loss, which bled into the moment of discussing the realities of pregnancy, postpartum, and perinatal mental health conditions.

Along the way, we talked about endometriosis and PCOS and egg freezing and IVF and everything in between. We began to get real about periods and sexual health, diet culture and mental health, health misinformation and medical gaslighting…and so much more. Eventually, as millennial women aged into perimenopause and menopause, we opened doors to unfiltered conversations about those issues too. It is thanks to millennial women that perimenopause and menopause are finally getting mainstream attention.

With attention comes resources, conversation, and, perhaps most important of it, information. The medical community became compelled to learn more, real women began to share their stories, and suddenly normalization of women’s health issues and conditions seemed within reach.

And we won’t stop talking about it. All of it. The realities of women’s bodies. The taboo stuff. The policies that affect our ability to take control of our health. The things we’ve been told are “TMI”...because when it comes to information about our bodies, there is no such thing as “too much”.

Tune in Monday-Thursday for “BodyTalk”,  my column on demystifying the ins and outs of women’s health, highlighting the people who are committed to talking about the real stuff, and giving women more information about their bodies. Because when we know about what’s really going on on the inside, we get to rescript our own stories.

So come on, ladies, let’s get information.