Скачать или смотреть Scientist Solved the Mystery of Morning Sickness, but NIH Refuses to Fund It

This woman’s scientific breakthrough could solve morning sickness, but the NIH refuses to fund it even though they funded a similar sized study on erectile dysfunction. Shocker.

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We’ve known the real cause of morning sickness since 2016, but it took a scientist with a feeding tube and zero funding to prove doctors wrong about the ‘vomiting hormone’

Geneticist Dr. Marlena Fejzo was literally bedridden with hyperemesis gravidarum - a severe form of pregnancy morning sickness - that she required a feeding tube. When she asked her physician for help he told her she was attention seeking & acting “infantile”. I wish I was making this up.

So Dr. Fejzo rolled up her sleeves and figured out the root cause of morning sickness on her own in the most bootstrapped way possible, like a total baddie.

Her discovery earned her many awards & prizes including TIME’s Woman of the Year Honoree & Women’s Health Prize

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