5 Signs Your Pelvic Floor Is Weak—and What to Do About It

Unfortunately, we live in a society in which women’s bodies have been all but ignored in modern health . “Historically, women have been excluded from clinical trials and biomedical research because researchers considered the presence of menstruation rendered the biological processes within female bodies too variable to glean reliable results, and/or because of fears of harming the prospects of a future pregnancy,” notes a recent study that looked at sex and gender gaps in medicine and the androcentric history of medical research. “Thus, most research data have been collected from males and generalized to females, intersex people, transgender people, or gender nonconformists.”

Because of this, many of us are wildly unaware of our bodies and the alarm signals it tries to send us. When i