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
