I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication. When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss. Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed. She is alive today. Too many women like her are not. Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens. 84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance. The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men. Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape. For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant. And the biology runs deeper than symptoms. Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram. SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one. And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look: Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters. Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age. Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050. The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger. What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking: "Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it. "Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested. "My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI. And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart." That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it. 80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology. Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health. I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged. The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives. Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: open.substack.com/pub/afshin…

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🚨MUST READ!!! ISRAELI JOURNALIST GIVES FULL ACCOUNT ON WAR! THIS IS WHY OUR GOVT IS CENSORING US: Israeli journalist, Alon Mizrahi: "We are witnessing history. Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, fucking up US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isn’t ready to see it." "In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world. American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. We’re talking a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke. We are seeing radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece being destroyed in an instant. We are seeing entire military bases being abandoned and burned, decimated and destroyed. And I’m telling you from my knowledge, the US has never suffered such devastation in its entire history, except maybe Pearl Harbor but that was one attack. No enemy in a normal war has done to the US military what the Iranians are doing to the US military right now. This defies belief. The military situation is so bad that censorship blocks practically every piece of new information about this war. If you’ve noticed we’re being exposed to less and less every day. Thirty-five years ago during the first Iraq war, we were being shown endless footage from Iraq. The smart bombs and the cameras were a novelty back then, but every night we were being shown night footage. Now we are seeing almost no video. Understand this! This is supposedly the worlds biggest military power having the worlds biggest air capabilities and for 4 days when the US is on the offensive, supposedly and is supposed to be breaking through Iranian defenses we are seeing NO signs of American domination over Iranian skies. Where is all the footage of our planes flying over Tehran or any part of Iran for that matter? American soldiers can not even dream of setting foot in Iran. And to understand how desperate this war is, that on the 4th day you’re already hearing the craziest suggestions and ideas from the Trump administration. They are suggesting to send military escorts for oil carrying vessels coming out of the Persian gulf. What are you even talking about?! You want to send American ships into the range of thousands of Iranian missiles? NO ONE can pass through the strait of Hormuz right now. The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting this idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the FUCK are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran?! It seems like the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how massive it is? What do you mean invade Iran?! You think a 10,000 man militia can invade Iran?! Or even 50,000?! Or 100,000?! Iran will swallow them. The US and Israel have already lost this war. The US and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have huge bombs and can explode buildings, but they will not win this war. Iranians military infrastructure and weaponry is so far underground ALL OVER IRAN. There is no way for the Americans and definitely not the Israelis to reach any of it. They are FUCKED. They have started something they have no chance of bringing to an end. When this is over the US will never come back to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.” -Alon Mizrahi, Israeli journalist and peace activist on Substack

Candace ON FIRE. I just LOVE that woman! FUCK all that liberal bullshit we have been hearing about 'Israel' - THIS is how you're supposed to talk about those bastards!

Birth rates are dangerously low in all western countries because when women are told that all they are good for is having children, but that having children doesn’t make them important, they simply opt out. Women are told that they must reproduce to benefit society, but also that they’re ugly, useless and ready to be discarded by the time they reach 40. Women are told to take on the overwhelming majority of work in the home, to sacrifice the most to care for their family and let their husbands excel in their careers, but if their husbands don’t treat them well enough to keep them, then they are a burden to society and deserve nothing as a result. Women see all of these talking points every time they open social media or scroll a timeline. Even women who sought a more traditional dynamic are being turned off and reconsidering their desire when they see how men talk about them. Men asking for stay at home wives and mothers while also saying that her contribution and sacrifice is so minimal to the point of being worthless is abhorrent. Women know that having and raising children is going to be hard, that they will be living their lives in servitude, and the majority of women are happy to do it, but not for men who tell them that it’s all they’re good for. Not for men who tell them that once they’re done having children they’re ‘used up’, that if the marriage doesn’t work out then everything belongs to him, and that doing all of it still doesn’t make her important. Despite pleas for women to start having children again, women don’t want to have children with men who don’t value them, so they’re not. In a world that doesn’t value mothers while telling women that that’s all they’re good for and reiterating that doing so still doesn’t make women important, women won’t become mothers. If you want to fix the birth rates, you start by treating women and motherhood with the value and respect deserved.

You told women to close their legs, so they did. You told them to choose better men, so they did. You told them to raise their standards, and they listened. Now you’re angry because you’re not being chosen, and suddenly it’s a “male loneliness epidemic.” It’s not a shortage of women. It’s entitlement meeting standards.

Finally women are being studied and now we are finding out that the women (egg )doesn't really have a biological clock it's the men who do...... Quality of a man's sperm is responsible for most miscarriages. Over time, The egg quality remains the same but quantity drops, but for a man (sperms) quality drops and quantity remains the same!....wheww

Men are finally experiencing what its like to be a woman and they can’t stand it. For Decades, women have been judged on the way they look, what they bring to the table and how they can serve the man. Now that women have access to their own funds ,their own housing,their own jobs it is a different ball game for these men and they don't like it. women are finally asking what do you bring to the table because I already have everything I need….basically we're judging men on their looks, their finances, and what they bring to the table so we're flipping the script and this has brought a resurgence and men whining & being like “I can't find anyone” “male loneliness epidemic”…..so basically women are doing the same thing men have been doing to us since the beginning of time, AND THEY ARE NOT LIKING IT

Men want babies that cost a woman her body, her sanity, her career and her stability but shame women for wanting financial security. SMH

Women get overwhelmed with housework and instantly think, “I need a cook, a cleaner, laundry service. I need to outsource". Men get overwhelmed with housework and instantly think, “I need a wife.” 🤦🏾‍♀️

Men : What essential jobs do women do that men can’t? The real question is - if men can do everything women can, why aren’t they doing it? What could be the reason? They glorify raising children, teaching the foundational years, nursing the sick, caring for the elderly, holding families together, maintaining the social fabric, and doing the invisible, emotional, and domestic labour that keeps every society functional only when they want women to do it without being paid for it. Men enter these fields only when they become high-status or high-paying, but until then they avoid the very work that sustains human life and then belittle the women who do it, more often than not for free. Men may dominate glamorous or loud jobs, but women run the systems without which society collapses in days, not even decades. These are hard facts that men don’t like.

It’s women’s unpaid labour that practically builds families and keeps households functional. Let me talk about medicine and caregiving, mainly. Women make ~80% live organ donors while men make ~80% live organ recipients. Why? Women who require extensive medical treatment are oftentimes abandoned by husbands and/or in-laws. Women are more often than not told they are over exaggerating their real symptoms. If this isn’t gender based discrimination, idk what is. Women are also default care-givers (again unpaid) whether or not they have jobs or their own illnesses. In spite of taking care of the “breadwinners” women are valued below sub-human. In lower income families, men and women both are earning members. But while men come home from work, women begin another shift after coming home from their paid jobs. Only this time, this work is unpaid. And thankless. All the unpaid work in the homes that women are expected to do as wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, etc stop women from having the time to study and work. Women’s ‘time poverty’ is created solely by men and patriarchal women. And then men complain that “all the important jobs are done by men” and refuse to acknowledge that men have kept women out of education and jobs for centuries in the first place. They used to burn fearless women with opinions at the stake as witches. Even sick days for women at home are non-existent. And men have the audacity to say “what do women contribute to”? You are literally living because we birthed you, surviving longer because we are more diligent caregivers than you will ever be (fact), and outliving your failing organs because we give you ours without expecting you to do the same for us. Men are the only gold-diggers.

She and Yaman have more in common than him and Ruya. Ruya loves Ali but she can't understand Yaman. Also, she never apologized for the hurtful words she said to Yaman. I ship Yaman with Leyla.

These 3 American men have invaded 9 countries in 23 years, killed 11 million civilians and no one calls them 'war criminals'

Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it. My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant.

The audacity...so the ones who started 2 World Wars, invaded other countries, attempted regime change, bombed cities were the "most civilized nations" ?!?! People will stop talking about race when they stop judging others based on their skin tone, the color of their eyes or hair

Damilare has been on top of bringing light to what’s happening with Africans trying to leave Ukraine - the videos shared on his page are devastating & an indictment of European border & migration racism. Borders are open for some, if you look the right part.

Unbelievable !!! Even the white kid said afterwards he didn't understand why he wasn't handcuffed. But (W)Right-wingers don't want to talk about race so white kids won't feel uncomfortable. Kids are not stupid and with SM they would know the truth whether you like it or not.

Woww !!!