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Dr. Maria Uloko (@mariaulokomd) was a guest speaker at the most recent Girl Boss Happy Hour in Paris, France 🇫🇷🥂 and she did not hold back.

Most women, and most doctors, don’t know what to look for because many of us have never looked at our own vulva, and too often women’s symptoms get ignored. That’s why she created VULVAi (@vulvai.co), a digital health platform with education, symptom tracking, and self-advocacy tools to help you understand your body and feel confident asking for care.

You can’t advocate for your body if no one ever taught you what’s normal. 🤍

Watch the full speech, then send it to a friend who needs to hear it.

#womenshealthmatters #knowyourbody #healthcareadvocacy #selfadvocacy #womensempowerment

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kinda chic to do things your own way

#filmscreening #indiefilmmaker #womeninfilm #changetheconversation #kindachic

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PSA for anyone who has been treated for the same infection more than twice.

Recurrent thrush, recurrent BV and recurrent UTIs are extremely common, and on this week’s episode @mariaulokomd , urologist and sexual medicine specialist, explains why she puts all three in the same bucket.

The part that is not in the slides is what causes it, and it is not only menopause. Oral birth control changes how your body uses testosterone. So do common acne medications and hair loss medications. If your infections started after one of those, that is not a coincidence, and it does not mean you have to stop taking it. It means the tissue needs the hormones given back to it directly.

💌Comment WORKUP and I’ll send you the full episode.

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Did you know your recurrent UTIs may not be coming from your bladder at all?

I senior authored a new study that @npr just covered nationally. Of 253 women diagnosed with recurrent UTIs, only 15% had a problem limited to the urinary tract. In the vast majority, the root cause was hormonal changes to the vulvar tissue and microbiome, plus pelvic floor dysfunction. The infections were a symptom. The diagnosis stopped one level too early.

If you’ve been on antibiotic after antibiotic and the symptoms keep coming back, you are not crazy. You may simply never have been evaluated for the actual cause.

You cannot diagnose what you were never taught to examine. That is exactly why I built @vulvai.co

Thank you @meghanrabbitt for telling this story. Full NPR piece at the link in bio.

#uti #vulvodynia

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The thing I hear most from listeners: you got put on a medication for vulvodynia, nobody explained why, it didn't work, and you walked away thinking that was the end of the road. (And yes, this was also the case for me).

@mariaulokomd puts it like this. Chest pain could be acid reflux, or it could be a heart attack. Those are not remotely the same problem and they do not get the same treatment, so no doctor on earth would hand you an ibuprofen and tell you to call back in six weeks. They'd find out which one it was first. That's called building a differential diagnosis, and most clinicians are never taught to do it for vulvar pain.

So it feels like trial and error because it is. 🥲 This is a foundational episode I've wanted to make for a long time - a whistle stop tour of the medications and interventions available for different types of vulvar pain, and how anyone should actually be choosing between them. ❤️‍🩹

💌Comment WORKUP and I'll send you the full episode.

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Ever gone to a doctor and been told:
It’s all in your head
Drink some wine
The pain can’t be that bad
Or it’s Just part of being a woman

You are not alone. You go to doctors as the experts, but they are not being trained on women’s bodies. The research we have been basing women’s health on has been predominantly on male bodies.

This is not a one off instance, this is a systemic issue.

We’re building an ecosystem around Vulva La Revolution to draw attention to the systemic inequities around women’s health and provide a pipeline from information into action so you are equipped once the credits roll.

Every revolution needs a cavalry and we are assembling. Join us. Collaborate with us.

This message is coming to the masses and we are ready to ride.
🫡🐎🎥

#Documentaryfilm #movement #joinus #changethenarrative #womenshealth

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More UTI conversations! Check out the latest study (link in bio) and drop any uti questions you may have in the comments! Check back in daily- your question might be the one discussed! #urinarytractinfection #vulvodynia

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Questions about finances come up all the time at MELD. Saving, investing, negotiating, building. What does it all mean and how does it work?

MELD Advisor Naseem Sayani is putting MBA highlights in your earbuds. @thecapitalflexpodcast is the podcast we wish existed when we were first figuring out building MELD. Hosted by a VC who says the quiet part out loud, it follows female founders raising money inside systems not built for them.

Here are 6 lessons from the show (swipe for the full breakdown):

Qualify, don’t convince.
Structural friction is not imposter syndrome.
Audit who you take advice from.
Not all access is worth the cost.
Creativity in strategy is discipline, not desperation.
Write your non-negotiables before you walk in the room.

We’re building MELD because these lessons shouldn’t take a decade to learn. They should be waiting for you at 22.

Go follow @thecapitalflexpodcast . And then come find us.

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Just a casual 10 years, writing, self producing, and self financing this comedy film based on my own true story all for the opportunity for these conditions to be shown on screen!

📺 Check it out at the link in our bio or go to www.ladypartsfilm.com

#ladypartsfilm #indiefilmmaking #vaginismus #vulvodynia #endometriosis

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I can’t teach you how to Dougie… but I can teach you how to care for vulvas. 💁🏾‍♀️

So grab your 🖊️ and take 📝.

Because the truth is — vulvar health is still wildly under-taught in medicine. Too many providers were never properly trained on how to examine the vulva, recognize vulvar disease, or confidently manage these conditions.

And our patients deserve better.

That’s exactly why @mariaulokomd and I, in partnership with @vulvai.co and @heather.hirsch.academy - created an entire Vulvovaginal Masterclass designed for clinicians who want to actually learn how to do this well.

Inside the masterclass we cover:
• How to perform a proper vulvar exam
• How to recognize and diagnose vulvar conditions
• Evidence-based treatment strategies
• When and how to perform a vulvar biopsy

If you take care of humans with vulvas, this is training you should have gotten in residency — but probably didn’t.

So we built it.
LINK IN BIO ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

#vulvahealth #womenshealth

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“An emoji deck raised $500,000.”

And a board-certified urologist pitching a trillion-dollar women’s health problem got told she’d make a good Gwyneth Paltrow.
In the next episode of The Capital Flex, I’m with Dr. Maria Uloko, one of only seven urologists worldwide with this level of sexual health specialization, is the founder of VULVAi.

We talk about funding bias, pattern recognition, why women’s health cannot be built on broken systems, and why impact investors and non-dilutive capital may be the real unlock.

This one is candid, sharp, and necessary. And it’s dropping soon.

#TheCapitalFlex #WomenFounders #FundBlackWomen #Fundraising #VentureCapital ImpactInvesting DigitalHealth WomensHealth FemTech HealthEquity

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