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What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? Periods are just the beginning.

In this award-winning podcast India Rakusen explores the whole bloody story of the menstrual cycle, discovering facts that could change your life. Periods are just the beginning.

What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? In this award-winning podcast India Rakusen explores the whole bloody story, discovering facts that could change your life. Periods are just the beginning.

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28ish Days Later: Day Eight: Hack it to Win it

Day Eight: Hack it to Win it

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India meets those biohacking the female body for sporting success.

India meets the people who are biohacking the menstrual cycle to improve female athletic performance.

For years the female body in athletic performance has gone understudied, until recently. 

India meets Richard Burden from the English Institute of Sport who is researching the effect of hormones on female performance whilst also building key technology in the field to do onsite hormone testing. India is also joined by GB pentathlon athlete Jess Varley who is part of this research and who has tailored her training around her menstrual cycle to reap extraordinary results. 

Credits: 
Presented by India Rakusen. 
Producer: Jorja McAndrew. 
Series Producer: Ellie Sans.
Executive Producer: Suzy Grant. 
Original music composed and performed by Rebekah Reid. 
Sound design by Charlie Brandon-King. 

Special thanks to all contributors and audio diarists. 

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