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Posted @withregram • @modernfertility Racial dis

Posted @withregram • @modernfertility Racial disparities in reproductive healthcare ➡️⁠⠀⁣
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When you read through each of these statistics and really let them sink in, the numbers are harrowing. These are just a few examples of the glaring disparities in reproductive healthcare the Black community has experienced for too long. ⁠⠀⁣
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It’s way past time to put an end to these injustices. ⁠⠀⁣

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Listening and learning. I never heard about this connection between acupuncture and the black community, but its so cool to hear. Thanks @daolabs for sharing!

What you won’t read about is on November 10, 1970, The New York Lincoln Detox Center: The People’s Drug Program was born. Not only was it the first drug rehabilitation treatment center to incorporate acupuncture in the USA, but it was also the first mass use of acupuncture by a private institution in the USA.

A group of the Young Lords, Black Panthers, and members of the Health Revolutionary Unity Movement (a mass organization of health workers), with the support of the Lincoln Collective, literally walked in and took over the Nurses’ Residence building of Lincoln Hospital and refused to leave. Dissatisfied with methadone maintenance as just swapping one drug pusher for another the health care providers wanted anything else to help people take back their lives. And guess what they found something - acupuncture.

The Lincoln Detox Program was recognized as the largest and most effective of its kind by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the National Acupuncture Research Society, and the World Academic Society of Acupuncture. This was in spite of the fact that the Lincoln Hospital was a little shop of horrors for patients before the takeover. So much so that we now have a Patients' Bill of Rights.

Where does Dr. Shakur come in? I’ll give you the short version but you can read more here. Brother Mutulu Shakur (as in Tupac's step-father) is a Doctor of Acupuncture. As an acupuncturist and health care worker, Brother Shakur worked for and lead the Lincoln Hospital Detoxification Program in the Bronx in New York from 1971 to 1978. Then, from 1978 to 1982, Dr. Shakur was the co-founder and co-director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America, also known as BAAANA and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture. Hundreds of acupuncturists were trained thanks to the work by Dr. Shakur.

He didn’t just treat addicts. He made regular, quality, low-cost health care available to everyone in the area.

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Posted @withregram • @thewomensdietitian DO YOU

Posted @withregram • @thewomensdietitian DO YOU NEED MELATONIN?! 🤔⁣
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Melatonin is a hormone mainly known for helping us sleep. It is produced in both the brain AND the gut which is why gut health relates to sleep quality! 😴⁣
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But did you know melatonin plays a huge role in your ovaries when you’re trying to conceive? Melatonin is considered an ovarian antioxidant and there is growing evidence of its direct role in oocyte (your immature egg cells) AND embryo development! 🤰⁣
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There are also studies examining the positive effect melatonin has on progesterone levels and egg health.⁣ ⁣
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🍒Foods that contain melatonin:⁣
•almonds⁣
•walnuts⁣
•tart cherries⁣
•raspberries⁣
•bananas⁣
•pineapple⁣
•oranges⁣
•oats⁣
•ginger⁣
•tomatoes⁣
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What questions do you have about melatonin? 👇🏼⁣
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