Period pain is a monthly puzzle that’s yet to be solved. Though extremely common and often debilitating, menstrual pain (aka dysmenorrhea) remains under-researched and under-treated. But why?? Cristen and Kate Downey of CRAMPED podcast investigate, from the Middle Ages to midcentury amphetamines to Big Pharma today.

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