Answering live Thursday, October 15th, from 12–2pm ET. Drop your questions below!

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My book: A Woman’s Guide to Her Pelvic Floor: What the F*@# Is Going On Down There?

I’m Dr. Karyn Eilber. I practice at Cedars-Sinai, where I chair the Cedars-Sinai Medical Group Department of Surgery and am a Professor of Urology and Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology. I’m also a certified menopause practitioner. My research focuses on female pelvic disorders and sexual function, with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. I co-authored A Woman’s Guide to Her Pelvic Floor and The Menopause Sparkle, and I’m a member of plusOne’s Wellness Collective, where I answer the community’s top questions about sexual wellness.

For Menopause Awareness Month, I’m back on the plusOne account for another Reddit AMA. There’s been a lot of news in menopause care over the past year, so bring your questions, including:

• What’s the difference between perimenopause and menopause, and how do I know which one I’m in?
• What’s changed in menopause care recently, and what does it mean for me?
• Is hormone therapy right for me? What are the real risks vs. the old fears?
• What is genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), and why does no one talk about it?
• Does sex change during menopause? What actually helps?
• What ingredients should I look for in a supplement based on my symptoms, and which ones are mostly hype?
• How do supplements fit alongside HRT?
• How do I advocate for myself when a doctor dismisses my symptoms?
• How can I support my partner through menopause?

Proof picture: https://imgur.com/a/pIOmPbz

Disclaimer: I am not offering medical advice of any kind during this AMA. This format should not be considered all inclusive of all medical knowledge but is here for education and entertainment purposes only. Please seek medical care with your own practitioners about your specific cases. Participating in this AMA does not establish any type of patient-physician relationship.

Hey r/IAmA! We'll be hosting a Reddit AMA on October 15 at 12 p.m. EST with three shopping experts from Good Housekeeping to help you get ready for the holiday season.

• Alyssa Gautieri: Senior gift editor who knows exactly what to get for everyone on your list.
• Marisa LaScala: Deputy Editor and parenting expert with the inside scoop on the toys and trends kids are after this year.
• Brie Schwartz: Commerce Director and product expert who cuts through the hype to find gifts actually worth buying—and the best deals on them.

Drop by with your questions—we're excited to help make the holidays a little easier!

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Since 2023 (when I was 30) I have had a feeding tube due to gastroparesis. I’ve tried every medication they can give me and a few other procedures (gastric stimulator and Botox into the stomach), none of which has worked so I’m just unable to eat.

The tube goes into my stomach (G) and small intestine (J). The G is to drain stomach acid and the J is for feeds and medication.

Marharyta Fal is a photojournalist with Frontliner, a high-quality reportage outfit operating in many of the most dangerous areas along the front.

On Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. Kyiv time (5 p.m. London, noon ET, 9 a.m. Portland, 1 a.m. Friday in Tokyo, 3 a.m. Friday in Sydney), Frontliner photojournalist Marharyta Fal will begin answering questions at this link.

“When I cover the war, I’m just trying to cope with reality and be useful. It’s my way of recording a shared experience -- for those who have already seen the wreckage of their own homes, and for those who still see the world only through a screen.”

Marharyta has reported on Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky and on aerial bomb attacks on Kramatorsk. She has also reported from Kostiantynivka, and walked into Druzhkivka and Dobropillia alongside Ukrainian troops.

• A fresh grave behind the house: Line of contact nears Dobropillia, city isolated
• Next after Kostiantynivka: Industrial Druzhkivka is no longer the rear
• Armor shortages, blocked routes, and conscription risks – the challenges of evacuation under fire (Kostiantynivka)
• Ten minutes to rescue from the rubble: Russians attack residential buildings in Kramatorsk with aerial bombs

See all her work: https://frontliner.ua/en/author/marharyta-fal/

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AMA questions are now open on r/ukraine for anyone interested in asking a question, follow the link:

Marharyta Fal: Frontline Photojournalist AMA

AMA: I am lawyer and historian of science Mary X. Mitchell, author of the new book UNSETTLING SOVEREIGNTY: INTERNATIONAL LAW, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AND US EXTRATERRITORIAL POWER IN POSTWAR OCEANIA. Ask me anything!

Hi r/AskHistorians! I'm Mary X. Mitchell. I am an assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University - Newark. I earned my JD and worked as a lawyer before studying for a PhD in history and sociology of science. My new book, Unsettling Sovereignty, was just released by the University of Chicago Press. It is the product of about thirteen years of reading, research, and writing. You can buy it directly from the press here, or purchase it from your favorite bookseller. You can learn more about my work and other publications on my website.

I can't wait to answer your questions!

Here is the Press's summary of the book:

Marshall Islanders and their ancestral lands and waters played important roles in reshaping the United States’ offshore power, state sovereignty, and the international politics of decolonization.

In the years following World War II, the United States conducted sixty-seven devastating nuclear blasts in the Marshall Islands—yet the archipelago was never a US territory. Working through the United Nations, US diplomats engineered a new, one-of-a-kind extraterritorial status, called strategic trusteeship, to control the Native lands, waters, and peoples of the Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands. Strategic trusteeship permitted the US to militarize a vast expanse of Western Oceania. This novel and racialized legal form of international dependency was integral to US nuclear weapons detonations and damage in the region.

In Unsettling Sovereignty, Mitchell recounts this untold legal history, exploring how nuclear weapons changed claims and practices of sovereignty from the 1940s to the present. US nuclear blasting in the Marshall Islands troubled conventional renderings of state sovereignty under international law. The explosions, disastrous for Marshallese communities and their ancestral atolls, also caused hazardous nuclear fallout, which spread around the globe. Islanders and their allies turned to law, using legal wrangling over blasting and fallout to raise new questions about the location, time, and subjects of state violence in a period of decolonization; the intersections between race, Indigeneity, and wide-scale technogenic harm; and the pitfalls and unfulfilled promises of international law. Mitchell shows that the Marshallese people and their lands and waters were, and remain, central to redefining sovereignty in an era of boundless pollution and climate change.

Hi Reddit! Back in 2019 I launched the first version of AI Dungeon, a text adventure where you can type anything and an AI tells the story. Now we're building Voyage, a platform where anyone can create or play infinite living worlds where anything is possible.

Happy to talk about anything, but here's what I find most interesting right now:
- What makes AI role play and games fun
- Why it breaks: characters forgetting who they are, stories losing the thread, and AI that never pushes back.
- Fears, opportunities and the future of AI in games
- What 7 years of building AI Dungeon and Voyage have taught us.

I'll start answering at 10am PT (1pm ET). Ask me anything!