Whales, weekend squats + pep talks

your roundup of hopefully helpful things

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• This orca menopause research is getting very specific: New research out of the University of Exeter found that adult orcas who were accompanied by post-menopause mothers fought less with other males. The protection did not extend to their daughters, probably because they aren’t getting into physical fights but I’m just guessing: I’m not a whale or a whale researcher. Score one more for the Grandmother Hypothesis. We are good for all sorts of things after the periods and babies, amIright? Current Biology

• Great roundup of research: Menopause and the microbiome News Medical Life Sciences

• New research says it doesn’t matter if you exercise all the days or some of the days: "The take-home [message] is that efforts to optimize activity, even if concentrated within just a day or two each week, should be expected to result in improved cardiovascular risk profiles," lead author Shaan Khurshid, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, told theheart…