Canada -based scientist Liisa Galea has made it her mission to advocate for the need for more research into women’s health. Such research can help uncloud the menopause mystery, amongst other things.

We are all familiar with that experiment in which a Mentos is dropped into a bottle of cola - and the bottle rockets. If we imagine our body as the bottle and our hormones as the Mentos – then the chemical reaction can be explosive, emotionally speaking.

Miscarriage. Here is a word we grow up hearing thrown around every now and again. But the severity of what a woman and her partner are going through is only known to those who really experience the dark reality behind the word.