- Tampons, pads, and menstrual cups are the only available technologies in the market for managing “this time of the month”. All are problematic in different ways.
- Pads and menstrual cups were invented more than 100 years ago at the end of the eighteen hundreds and tampons were invented in 1921.
- The invention of pads combined with the need for working hands in WW I, resulted in women officially joining the industrial workforce for the first time.
- Women spend a total of about 6 years of their lives bleeding.
- 20% of perimenopause women experience heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), severely affecting their quality of life.
- The monthly bleeding is effectively a monthly biopsy which is currently simply being discarded