For too long, societal expectations have downplayed the immense physical, emotional, and mental toll that pregnancy and childbirth take on a woman’s body. New studies reveal a critical truth: it takes a woman 1-2 years to fully recover from pregnancy, not just six weeks. This timeline challenges conventional wisdom and calls attention to the need for greater support and understanding for new mothers. The idea that women can “bounce back” in just a few weeks ignores the complexity of the postpartum experience and the deep recovery required after childbirth.
The reality of postpartum recovery is multifaceted, involving more than just physical healing. Emotional and mental health are just as important, with many women experiencing challenges such as postpartum depression, anxiety, and the overwhelming demands of new motherhood. The one-to-two-year recovery period underscores the need for holistic care that addresses both the body and mind, recognizing the profound changes that women undergo during this time.
This shift in understanding also calls for a societal change in how we view and support women during this critical period. Recovery from pregnancy is not just a private matter—it is a collective responsibility. From healthcare policies to workplace accommodations, society must be equipped to support women through their recovery, ensuring they receive the care they need to heal physically and emotionally.
As we redefine the recovery process, it is crucial to dismantle the pressures that women face to “return to normal” so quickly after childbirth. Instead, we must recognize and celebrate the immense strength it takes for women to navigate their post-pregnancy journey and prioritize long-term health over short-term expectations.
This new understanding challenges us to create more inclusive and supportive environments for women, not just in the immediate postpartum period, but throughout their entire recovery journey. By acknowledging the reality of postpartum recovery, we pave the way for a more compassionate and equitable approach to women’s health.
What changes can we make to support new mothers in their recovery? How can we shift societal expectations to create a more realistic and compassionate view of postpartum healing? Share your thoughts and experiences with us, and let’s work together to create a more supportive world for women everywhere.
Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
She married into power and believed, for a time, that intelligence and loyalty would protect her.
It did not.
Rosina Bulwer-Lytton was not a quiet woman. She was sharp, articulate, politically aware, and deeply principled. In Victorian England, those qualities were tolerable in private and dangerous in public. They became unforgivable once she attached them to a powerful man.
Her husband, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was one of the most influential figures of his age. A celebrated novelist. A member of Parliament. A man whose reputation was carefully cultivated and fiercely defended. To the public, he was brilliant and respectable. To Rosina, he was controlling, dismissive, and increasingly hostile to her independence.
Their marriage was troubled almost from the start. Rosina spoke her mind. She challenged his politics. She criticized his hypocrisy. And when their relationship collapsed, she refused to disappear quietly.
That refusal sealed her fate.
In Victorian Britain, a husband did not need evidence to destroy a wife. He needed only authority and the right language. Edward Bulwer-Lytton used both. He declared Rosina “hysterical,” invoked the prevailing medical myths about women’s instability, and had her forcibly committed to a private asylum.
There was no trial. No medical examination she could contest. No crime she had to commit.
Her offense was public defiance.
Inside the asylum, Rosina discovered the truth she would later risk everything to expose. She was not surrounded by madness. She was surrounded by women like herself. Women who spoke too freely. Women who embarrassed men of influence. Women who resisted marriages, questioned religion, demanded autonomy, or simply refused obedience.
They were restrained, isolated, drugged, silenced. Not because they were ill, but because they were inconvenient.
Rosina endured confinement and survived it. And when she was released, she committed what Victorian society considered the ultimate betrayal.
She spoke.
She wrote about the asylum in detail. She described sane women treated as lunatics. She documented how psychiatry was used not as healing, but as discipline. She named her husband and made his actions public, exposing how easily the label of insanity could be weaponized against wives who challenged male authority.
The backlash was swift. Her reputation was shredded. Her credibility questioned. She was portrayed as bitter, unstable, vindictive. That, too, was part of the system. A woman who told the truth about power had to be discredited, or her words might force change.
Rosina did not retreat.
She aligned herself with reformers, with early suffragists, with those fighting for women’s legal and bodily autonomy. She turned her personal punishment into political testimony. She made it clear that what happened to her was not an anomaly. It was policy disguised as medicine. Control masquerading as care.
She understood something essential. Silence was the real sentence. The asylum was only the method.
By refusing to stay quiet, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton transformed a private act of cruelty into a public warning. She showed how easily women’s anger, intellect, and dissent could be reframed as pathology. How quickly a husband’s discomfort could become a diagnosis. How dangerous it was to live in a society where obedience was defined as sanity.
Her story does not belong to the past.
It echoes wherever women are told they are “too emotional” instead of being listened to. Wherever power responds to criticism by questioning mental fitness. Wherever dissent is medicalized rather than addressed.
Rosina Bulwer-Lytton paid dearly for telling the truth.
But because she told it, the machinery behind her confinement was exposed. And once exposed, it could never again pretend to be benign.
SARS-CoV-2 Infection, the Spike Protein and GzmA: Yet Another Carcinogenic Mechanism
There is a serine protease that is actively secreted by cytotoxic immune cells like Natural Killer (NK) cells and T cells called GzmA. Levels of this protein are implicated in the development of cancer…
…If we look at SARS-CoV-2 infection, we discover that this protease is markedly elevated compared to healthy controls…
…So, what we have seen is yet another mechanism which shows that SARS-CoV-2 is almost certainly an oncogenic virus. One observation I have made over the years is how the virus and its Spike Protein can tip the balance of so many different biological processes. It seems to always find a way to push the “bad” lever when it affects a process that can be either beneficial or pathological in the body.
For the full story: https://open.substack.com/pub/wmcresearch/p/sars-cov-2-infection-the-spike-protein
The Brains Ha A Lymphatic Network
The discovery of a true lymphatic network surrounding the brain has been called one of the most significant breakthroughs in modern neuroscience, challenging the long-held belief that the brain was an “immune privileged” organ completely isolated from the body’s immune and waste-clearing systems. In 2015, researchers independently identified a network of meningeal lymphatic vessels nestled within the dura mater, the outermost membrane covering the brain.
This “missing link” fundamentally changed the understanding of neuro-immune interactions. The lymphatic system, traditionally known for collecting excess fluid, filtering waste, and transporting immune cells throughout the body, was proven to have a direct channel out of the central nervous system. These meningeal vessels work in conjunction with the glymphatic system, a network that flushes cerebrospinal fluid through the brain tissue to clear neurotoxins, including proteins associated with neurodegenerative disorders.
The discovery has vast implications for the study and treatment of major neurological diseases. Researchers are now intensely investigating how damage or reduced function in this drainage system may contribute to the development and progression of diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Understanding how to reinforce this natural cleaning system opens entirely new avenues for therapeutic interventions.
NEW STUDY: Resveratrol and Copper Trigger System-Level Collapse of Human Glioblastoma Aggressiveness in Just 12 Days
In one of the deadliest human cancers, cheap nutraceuticals produced coordinated suppression of tumor proliferation, cancer hallmarks, immune checkpoints, stemness, and activated intrinsic apoptosis.
Glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the most aggressive and lethal human cancers, with a median survival of roughly 15 months despite surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. In a newly published paper in BJC Reports titled, Attenuation of malignant phenotype of glioblastoma following a short course of the pro-oxidant combination of Resveratrol and Copper, researchers found a short, non-toxic oral intervention that simultaneously suppresses tumor proliferation, cancer hallmarks, immune checkpoints, and stemness — while activating intrinsic tumor cell death.
In a small but carefully controlled pre-surgical “window” study, human glioblastoma patients received resveratrol (5.6 mg) plus copper (560 ng) four times daily for an average of just ~12 days before tumor resection. Tumor tissue was then compared with untreated controls.
The results reveal a system-level attenuation of malignant phenotype: near-eradication of tumor-promoting cell-free chromatin particles (cfChPs)—accompanied by a ~31% reduction in tumor proliferation (Ki-67), suppression of nine cancer hallmarks and cancer stemness, simultaneous down-regulation of six immune checkpoints, and activation of intrinsic apoptosis, all within ~12 days.
This was not a marginal signal. It was a coordinated, system‑level biological shift in one of the deadliest cancers known…
CONCLUSION
After ~12 days of a non-toxic oral intervention (resveratrol plus copper), glioblastoma tumors demonstrated:
- Near-elimination of tumor-promoting chromatin debris (cfChPs)
- A marked reduction in tumor cell proliferation (Ki-67)
- Suppression of nine core hallmarks of cancer
- Simultaneous down-regulation of six immune checkpoints
- Significant loss of cancer stem cell markers
- Large-scale reprogramming of tumor gene expression
- Activation of organized, intrinsic tumor cell death with efficient cleanup
Together, these findings indicate that a short, non-toxic intervention can biologically “de-escalate” one of the most aggressive human cancers across multiple independent axes of malignancy.
The authors explicitly note that longer trials are urgently needed to determine whether prolonged treatment could push tumors toward a more benign phenotype or improve clinical outcomes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/new-study-resveratrol-and-copper
Castor Oil and Fat Loss
Watch video: https://pages.upwellness.com/uc-ultraliver-vsl03/
SARS-CoV-2 Infection, the Spike Protein and GzmA: Yet Another Carcinogenic Mechanism
There is a serine protease that is actively secreted by cytotoxic immune cells like Natural Killer (NK) cells and T cells called GzmA. Levels of this protein are implicated in the development of cancer.
If we look at SARS-CoV-2 infection, we discover that this protease is markedly elevated compared to healthy controls.
What I find intriguing and important is that GzmA is also found to be expressed significantly in those experiencing Long COVID. This was discovered in a just published study.
So, what we have seen is yet another mechanism which shows that SARS-CoV-2 is almost certainly an oncogenic virus. One observation I have made over the years is how the virus and its Spike Protein can tip the balance of so many different biological processes. It seems to always find a way to push the “bad” lever when it affects a process that can be either beneficial or pathological in the body.
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-infection-the-spike-protein
Prostate Data
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Three weeks ago, a research paper was published in a European medical journal that should have made headline news…
It didn’t.
No major media coverage. No press releases. No doctors discussing it on morning talk shows.
Instead, something disturbing happened.
The paper was quietly removed from two major medical databases within 72 hours of publication. The lead researcher’s university website was “updated” — her faculty page now scrubbed of any mention of her prostate research. Two American physicians who shared the study on professional forums had their posts deleted for “violating community guidelines.” One received a call from his hospital’s legal department the next morning.
Someone powerful doesn’t want you to see this research.
And after reading what it contains, you’ll understand exactly why.
The study examined prostate tissue samples from 847 men between the ages of 50 and 75.
What they found should change everything we know about prostate problems.
And it should terrify the pharmaceutical companies making $3.2 billion annually from your suffering.
Here’s what the researchers discovered:
In 94% of the tissue samples — nearly every single one — they found massive accumulations of a thick, sticky hormonal residue clogging the microscopic blood vessels inside the prostate.
Not minor buildup. Not trace amounts.
Massive accumulations blocking up to 60% of blood flow to prostate cells.
The researchers had a term for what was happening.
“Prostate Suffocation.”
The prostate was slowly choking from the inside.
This is what’s causing the weak stream that takes forever to start.
The constant urgency that never fully goes away.
The 3am bathroom trips. Then 4am. Then 5am. Night after night after night.
The exhaustion that seeps into everything — work, relationships, the ability to feel joy.
The slow, humiliating feeling of becoming an old man trapped in a body that won’t cooperate.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil:
This wasn’t new information.
Buried in the study’s citations were references to internal pharmaceutical research dating back decades — proprietary studies conducted by the same companies that manufacture Flomax, Finasteride, and every other prostate drug on the market.
They’ve known about this mechanism for years.
They’ve known that this hormonal residue is the root cause of prostate problems in aging men.
They’ve known that their medications don’t address it — that the drugs they sell simply relax bladder muscles while the underlying suffocation continues unchecked.
They’ve known that 70% of men on their drugs experience bedroom side effects — trading one nightmare for another.
And they’ve kept it quiet.
Because here’s the business problem:
If they created a drug that actually dissolved this residue and restored blood flow, you’d take it for two or three months. Your prostate would heal. Your symptoms would resolve.
And you’d stop paying them.
No more monthly refills. No more $300 prescriptions. No more lifetime of dependency.
A cured patient is a lost customer.
So instead, they sell you medications designed to manage symptoms indefinitely. Drugs that make you comfortable enough to keep taking them, but never address what’s actually wrong.
You stay sick. They stay profitable.
Year after year. Decade after decade.
Meanwhile, men everywhere are living the same quiet nightmare:
Standing over toilets at 3am, exhausted, waiting for a trickle that used to be a stream.
Mapping rest stops before every car trip. Skipping golf outings and poker nights because they can’t sit for three hours without multiple bathroom breaks.
Watching their wives move to the guest room — not out of anger, but exhaustion from being woken up five times a night.
Feeling the pity in her eyes. And knowing that hurts worse than any physical symptom.
Missing grandchildren’s recitals and graduations because they’re trapped in stadium bathrooms, wondering how the hell they became this person.
Turning down the retirement they worked 40 years for — the travel, the fishing trips, the freedom — because their bladder has become their prison warden.
The pharmaceutical industry knows this is happening. They know their drugs don’t fix it.
They don’t care.
But the European researchers didn’t just document the problem.
They documented solutions that actually work.
The second half of their paper examined natural compounds that could dissolve hormonal residue and restore blood flow to prostate tissue.
Compounds used in European medicine for decades — but that American doctors are never trained on. Because drug companies fund medical education. And they don’t teach solutions that would put them out of business.
Here’s what the research showed:
The first compound — Quercetin — reduced prostate inflammation by 46% and dissolved hormonal buildup in tissue samples within just 21 days.
The second — French Maritime Pine Bark Extract — increased blood flow to prostate tissue by 46% and reduced symptoms by 51% over 60 days.
The third — Curcumin with enhanced bioavailability — improved blood vessel function by 37% and slashed inflammatory markers by 44%.
Then Beta-Sitosterol: improved urinary flow rates by 34% and reduced residual urine volume by 24%. Men actually emptying their bladders completely again.
Saw Palmetto Extract reduced DHT levels — the hormone most responsible for residue production — by 30% and decreased nighttime bathroom trips by 25%.
The researchers also documented powerful synergistic effects when these compounds were combined with Pygeum bark, Pumpkin seed extract, Grape seed extract, Lycopene, and Rye pollen extract.
The conclusion was clear: natural compounds that attack the root cause outperformed drugs that just mask symptoms.
This should have been front-page news.
Instead, the study started disappearing.
First from PubMed. Then from Google Scholar search results. Then from the professional forums where physicians share research.
Someone is spending a lot of money to make sure American men never see this.
One person refused to let that happen.
Dr. Michael Thompson had spent 20 years as a board-certified urologist in Austin, Texas. Over 15,000 patients. Countless prescriptions written. Hundreds of surgical referrals.
He believed he was helping people.
Then his own prostate started failing him.
The same nightmare he’d watched thousands of men describe — he was living it. The sleepless nights. The weak stream. The exhaustion that never lifted. The feeling of his body betraying him.
He tried Flomax. The drug he’d prescribed to thousands of desperate men.
Within weeks, he couldn’t perform with his wife.
The “rare” side effect his pharmaceutical training had glossed over? He discovered 70% of men experience it. Seventy percent.
He’d never told his patients that. Because he’d never been told.
His colleagues recommended surgery.
But Dr. Thompson had seen the other side of that equation. The men in diapers. The destroyed marriages. The 40% who needed a second procedure within a decade.
He refused.
Instead, he started digging into research that wasn’t funded by drug companies. Studies from European institutions with no financial ties to American pharmaceutical giants.
That’s when he found the suppressed research.
And everything he thought he knew collapsed.
Twenty years. Fifteen thousand men.
He’d been treating symptoms while the real cause — prostate suffocation — got worse underneath.
The guilt was crushing.
He thought about every man he’d failed. Every prescription that masked a problem instead of solving it. Every patient now living with “rare” side effects that weren’t rare at all.
Dr. Thompson couldn’t unknow what he now knew.
So he walked away.
Left his practice. His $400,000 salary. His reputation. Everything he’d spent two decades building.
And he got to work.
For 18 months, he consulted with European researchers. Analyzed every study on prostate suffocation he could find. Worked with biochemists to develop a formula that addressed the root cause — not just the symptoms.
Based on the research, he created what he called the “Triple-Action Prostate Detox”:
Step 1: Dissolve years of built-up hormonal residue
Step 2: Restore oxygen-rich blood flow to suffocating cells
Step 3: Rebalance hormones to prevent future accumulation
He formulated it with all 10 clinically proven compounds at the exact therapeutic dosages shown to be effective in the European research.
He called it FlowRevive.
Then he tested it on himself.
Day 10: Woke up and realized he’d only gotten up twice. Not five times. Twice.
Week 3: His stream felt different. Stronger. Fuller. He wasn’t standing there for minutes waiting anymore.
Month 1: Slept six straight hours for the first time in years. Woke up confused — then realized he simply didn’t need to pee.
Month 3: Took his wife on a trip they’d been postponing for years. Five-hour flight. Entire vacation without bathroom anxiety. She held his hand on the beach and cried.
“I have my husband back,” she told him.
Word spread quietly. Former patients. Colleagues who trusted him. Desperate men who’d heard whispers about a urologist who’d found something different.
A 62-year-old from Phoenix canceled his surgery after his symptoms virtually disappeared.
A 67-year-old slept 8 hours straight for the first time in a decade. His wife moved back into their bedroom.
A 70-year-old told his wife he felt like the man she’d married 45 years ago. They booked a cruise — something he’d refused to consider for years because of bathroom anxiety.
One man put it simply: “I got my life back. I didn’t realize how much I’d lost until I got it back.”
The pharmaceutical companies will keep trying to bury this research.
They’ll keep paying for studies that support their drugs.
They’ll keep funding the medical education that trains doctors to prescribe their products. They’ll keep pressuring journals to remove anything that threatens their profits.
But they can’t stop you from trying FlowRevive.
They can’t stop you from experiencing what happens when you finally address the root cause instead of masking symptoms.
And they can’t take back your results once you’re sleeping through the night, urinating with a powerful stream, and living without the constant urgency that’s been controlling your life for years.
FlowRevive comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee.
If you don’t experience significant improvement — if you’re not sleeping better, urinating stronger, and feeling like yourself again — you get every penny back.
No questions. No hassles. No risk.
The pharmaceutical industry has been hiding this research for years.
Exposed men have suffered in silence — exhausted, embarrassed, watching their lives shrink around a bathroom schedule — while drug companies counted their billions.
Now you know the truth.
Don’t let them profit from your suffering one more day.
https://try.rootedvitalsmd.com/NewResearch
P.S. — They’ve known for decades that prostate problems are caused by suffocation, not “just aging” — and that natural compounds can fix the root cause in ways their drugs never will. They buried this research because it threatens their profits. But they can’t bury your results. FlowRevive contains all 10 compounds identified in the European research, at therapeutic dosages. The 90-day guarantee means you risk nothing. They’ve been profiting from your suffering long enough. It’s time to take your life back.
BREAKING STUDY: Pfizer mRNA Found in Over 88% of Human Placentas, Sperm, and Blood — and in 50% of Unvaccinated Pregnant Women by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Human biodistribution study shows Pfizer mRNA penetrates fetal and reproductive tissues, persists long-term in the body, and presents clear evidence of shedding.
For years, the public was told a simple story: the mRNA “stays in the arm,” degrades within hours, never enters the bloodstream, never crosses the placenta, never reaches the reproductive system, and certainly cannot be shed or transferred to others. These claims were repeated endlessly by agencies, fact-checkers, news outlets, and medical institutions, despite the fact that no long-term human biodistribution studies had ever been performed.
A new peer-reviewed study published in Annals of Case Reports titled, Detection of Pfizer BioNTech Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Human Blood, Placenta and Semen, ends that narrative.
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University and several Israeli medical centers used nested PCR combined with Sanger sequencing—a far more sensitive and specific method than the standard qPCR used in earlier studies—to test for Pfizer mRNA in human tissues from 34 participants, including 22 pregnant women, 4 male sperm donors (8 samples), and 8 additional adults.
Their findings are deeply worrisome: 88% of pregnant women vaccinated within the last 100 days showed detectable Pfizer mRNA in both blood and placental tissue. Among male sperm donors, 100% of those who produced sperm had vaccine mRNA in their sperm cells, and 50% had it detectable in seminal fluid—long after vaccination.
Even more concerning, Pfizer mRNA was detected in 50% of the unvaccinated women tested —two in both placenta and blood, and one in blood alone; a result that forces the scientific community to confront the reality of shedding, something officials categorically deny.
Most striking of all, mRNA was still present in 50% of individuals more than 200 days after injection.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-pfizer-mrna-found