Baubo: The Podcast
Baubo: The Podcast
Podcast Description
Baubo: The Podcast is hosted by Mathilde. The podcast sheds light on vulvodynia and vaginismus, two conditions that affect many women but remain shrouded in taboo, under-researched and under-funded. Mathilde invites top experts across multiple fields to deliver up to date and relevant information to help people experiencing these conditions, whilst sharing her own experience with vulvodynia.
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The podcast focuses on women's health issues, specifically vulvodynia and vaginismus, with episodes featuring expert insights into the neuroscience of pelvic pain, the anatomy and importance of pelvic floor health, and the common medical misconceptions surrounding these conditions, such as the episode with Dr. Tania Adib discussing the root causes of vulvar pain.
Chronic pelvic pain doesn’t have great PR. Vulvodynia, vaginismus, painful sex, pelvic floor dysfunction – conditions that affect 1 in 4 women and still get treated like a secret. This podcast is trying to change that.
The World’s Tightest Community is a weekly podcast hosted by Mathilde – a patient-turned-advocate who built this space out of her own experience with vulvodynia and vaginismus. Each episode goes deep into the conditions that millions of women live with but few feel safe naming: vulvodynia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, pudendal neuralgia, and the wider landscape of chronic pelvic pain and painful sex.
Mathilde speaks with gynecologists, pelvic floor physiotherapists, sex therapists, psychologists, and researchers working at the front edge of women’s sexual health – translating clinical knowledge into something actually usable, alongside honest conversations about diagnostic delays, medical gaslighting, and what it really costs to navigate these conditions.
You’ll leave each episode with more language for your experience, clearer questions to bring to your next appointment, and the specific relief of knowing someone has thought carefully about this.
New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen, and find the community on Instagram. <3
Is women’s health actually underfunded – and compared with what?
For episode 50, I’m going solo to dig into women’s health research and funding. Drawing on my background in finance, I separate two questions that usually get blended together: are the conditions affecting women getting enough research attention, and when research does happen, does it give women the answers they need?
We look at what the McKinsey 5% figure really measures, NIH funding for women’s vs men’s health, male-biased animal and cell research, sex as a biological variable, women in clinical trials, disease burden, private investment, and what I’d like to see change.
If you’ve heard the statistics a hundred times and want to get more precise about where the gaps really are, this one is for you. :)
Sponsors:
The Pelvic People, makers of the Ohnut and the Kiwi. 15% off with code TWTC15 at thepelvicpeople.com/twtc
Origin, in-network pelvic floor PT. Get your first month of On Track free with code TWTC at theoriginway.com/twtc
Episode sources: https://www.theworldstightestcommunity.com/episode/episode-50-womens-health-research-funding
Connect with Mathilde:
Instagram: @theworldstightestcommunity
Website: theworldstightestcommunity.com
Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4h4snzzd
Support the podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mtxnzhsd
Chapters:
00:00:00 Episode 50 Solo, Research and Funding
00:01:22 PubMed, Erectile Dysfunction, Vulvodynia
00:02:25 If Men Had Periods, Reductionism
00:03:41 Getting Precise, Finance Background
00:04:56 Quantifying Underfunding, Data Limits
00:05:29 Two Questions: Attention, Useful Answers
00:07:21 McKinsey 5% Figure, Pipeline vs Funding
00:08:21 Defining Women’s Health, Three Groups
00:09:52 Cardiovascular Disease, Sex Differences
00:10:45 Heart Attack Symptoms, Risk Calculators
00:13:16 What Counts as Women’s Health Research
00:14:24 McKinsey Revisited, Oncology, 1%
00:15:05 Drug Pipeline vs Total Research Funding
00:16:49 NIH Funding, Women’s vs Men’s Health
00:17:56 NIH Classification, What It Means
00:19:27 Three Questions on Underfunding
00:21:11 Whose Biology, Male Animals and Cells
00:22:17 2014 Study, 80% Male Animals
00:23:59 Invisible Women, Male as Default
00:24:46 1993 Inclusion Legislation, NIH
00:25:54 Sex as a Biological Variable, 2016
00:26:59 2026 Study: 61% Both Sexes, 44% Analyzed
00:28:11 Averages Hiding Sex Differences
00:29:19 Trial Representation, Cardio, Psychiatry
00:30:45 Representation vs Meaningful Analysis
00:31:51 Zolpidem, Ambien, 2013 FDA Dose Change
00:33:51 Missed Benefits, Male-Only Research
00:34:51 Maternal Health Gaps, Intersectionality
00:36:45 Disease Burden, DALYs, Vulvodynia
00:38:35 NIH Funding vs Disease Burden, 2021
00:40:11 Breast Cancer, Funding Outlier
00:41:32 Private Investment, WEF, BCG Report
00:43:27 Commercial Opportunity, Investor Logic
00:45:01 Pelvic Pain, Underdiagnosis, Investment
00:46:16 What Needs to Change, Long-Term Research
00:47:13 Analyzing Sex Differences
00:47:57 Women in Research Leadership, Authorship
00:49:33 Tool: Questions for Funding News
00:50:05 Takeaways, Nuance in Women’s Health
00:51:41 Call for Researchers, Thank You
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