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What are postpartum mood disorders?
What are the baby blues? Postpartum mood disorders 101
Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum
Motherhood is complicated
What does it mean to be a mom? Well, it’s complicated.
Gender Equality
Why are women and people with cycles underrepresented in health research?
The consequences have been dangerous.
Race
The racist and unethical origins of modern gynecology
How the past affects present day obstetrics
COVID-19
How coronavirus impacts pregnancy, breastfeeding, and postpartum
Science is evolving each day on how coronavirus affects pregnancy, lactation, and postpartum. Here’s the latest research on how pregnant...
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Learn more about your body with Clue Plus
When you subscribe to Clue Plus, you don't only get new features: you also fund important research, support data privacy,...
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Menstrual Cycle
Everything you need to know about your cycle and how it works, from A to Z.
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Menstrual Cycle
What is the menstrual cycle?
Understanding the cycle is important for your overall health. We break down the phases and hormones of the menstrual cycle.
Menstrual Cycle
What is an “irregular” menstrual cycle?
Some variability in your cycle length is normal.
by Anna Druet
Menstrual Cycle
Do periods sync?
Lesbian, queer and trans couples respond to our research on menstrual syncing
by Jen Bell
Birth Control
How effective is birth control?: The difference between using a method perfectly and typically
Researchers measure how well a birth control method works in two ways: perfect-use and typical-use.
Birth Control
When is emergency contraception most effective?
There is a lot of confusion around the use and effectiveness of emergency contraception.
Birth Control
Emergency contraception: more than just the morning-after pill
If you had unprotected vaginal sex, you could become pregnant. You have up to five days after unprotected sex to...
Birth Control
Birth control and sex drive
Whether you’re using birth control or not, you can use Clue to track both your sexual frequency and sex drive.
Birth Control
Bleeding on the IUD
IUDs can have different effects on your period quality and quantity.
Birth Control
Birth control and weight gain
Many people believe that hormonal birth control causes weight gain, but the research is not so clear cut. Here's how...
Birth Control
How to track your body's changes when going on or off birth control
If you’ve ever started or stopped taking hormonal birth control, your body may have experienced side effects. Tracking changes in...
Birth Control
My IUD insertion: a kind-of boring story
When it works out just fine, we don't often hear about it.
Birth Control
How do IUDs prevent pregnancy?
What the latest research says about how the hormonal IUD and the copper IUD work.
Birth Control
What it’s like to use the morning-after pill
We reached out seeking your experiences with the emergency contraceptive pill. Here’s what came in.
by Jen Bell
Birth Control
IUD myths and misconceptions
Is it painful to have an IUD inserted? Can an IUD get lost inside of me? Your questions about...
Fertility
Ovulation: What is it, and how do I know when I'm ovulating?
It is helpful to know about ovulation even if you aren't trying to get pregnant.
by Anna Druet
Fertility
Basal Body Temperature (BBT): how is it used to estimate ovulation?
Your reproductive hormones have a measurable impact on your temperature.
Fertility
Can I get pregnant from that?
There are lots of myths and misconceptions about how pregnancy happens.
by Jen Bell
Fertility
What you may not know about ovulation: common questions and misconceptions
The monthly release of an egg from the ovary is a fascinating process.
Fertility
Sperm and eggs: the basics of human sex cells
How many eggs do I have? How many sperm are in an ejaculate? And more answers to your questions
by Clár McWeeney, and Nicole Telfer
Issues & Conditions
Disabled people have periods, too
Women and people with cycles can face barriers to adequate healthcare, and having a disability can add another layer of...
Issues & Conditions
The immune system and the menstrual cycle
During the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, people tend to have higher levels of antibodies.
Issues & Conditions
Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) and menstrual products: a short history
You may have heard about TSS, and know that it has something to do with tampons. Fortunately, it’s rare.
Sex
Sex is an important part of the human experience. It can still be taboo to talk about, but here you'll...
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Sex
Condom use from a female perspective: Clue’s study with KI-CURT
Clue polled 95,000 people from 200 countries on condom use and menstruation
Life & Culture
How to talk about menstruation
Ever wanted to talk to someone about your period but didn't know how? Now's the time.
Life & Culture
Internationally inclusive: keeping Clue gender-neutral in 15 languages
Gender-inclusivity is an important part of what we do at Clue. We asked our translators: “What does it mean to...
by Jen Bell
Life & Culture
How to advocate for yourself at the doctor
Here’s what to do before, during and after your visit, to get the best healthcare possible.
by Jen Bell
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Clue is a menstrual tracking app, an encyclopedia, a resource for your health, and more. Here are all the posts...
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How Clue is beating stress at work
Clue supports over 12 million people with their menstrual health — including Clue employees. To keep Clue employees healthy and...
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Learn more about your body with Clue Plus
When you subscribe to Clue Plus, you don't only get new features: you also fund important research, support data privacy,...
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5 unexpected benefits of period tracking
Clue co-founder Ida Tin shares her top 5 reasons to track your period.
by Ida Tin
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Bringing awareness to infertility: how tracking your period can help
In recognition of #NIAW2021, and the people with periods and their partners who experience infertility, we hosted a webinar with...
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The journey of a single data point, Part III: About the selling of health data
We never have and we never will.
by Ida Tin
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Here's why you can use period trackers for getting pregnant, but not for preventing it
While you can use Clue and other apps to help you understand your body and become pregnant faster, you can’t...
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Introducing Clue’s first-ever Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lynae Brayboy
Clue's new Chief Medical Officer will help Clue evolve into the go-to source for women and people with cycles at...
by Aubrey Bryan
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Clue Birth Control, our FDA-cleared digital contraceptive is (almost) here
We’ve got some exciting news: Clue Birth Control is now available to an initial group of people in the USA....
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Scientific research at Clue
When you track in Clue, you contribute to an unprecedented data set that is forwarding the understanding of female health.
by Anna Druet
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The journey of a single data point
It's our job to keep everything you track in Clue safe.
by Ida Tin
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Clue’s Editorial Policy
At Clue, we prize openness and transparency—that’s why we’re publishing information about how and why we publish content.
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Choosing to challenge: New leadership–same powerful vision
I am proud to announce that Carrie Walter, formerly Clue’s General Counsel, and Audrey Tsang, formerly Clue’s Chief Product Officer,...
by Ida Tin
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What's this? Bayer Sponsored Content
Information about content produced by Clue and sponsored by Bayer.
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“Alternative” approaches to health: How we think about health information at Clue
We sometimes get emails asking why we collaborate with naturopaths for our online content. It's a fair question.
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Why we’re proud to work at Clue
For this Pride month, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on why some of our employees are proud...
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A global call for action on the International Day of Action for Women’s Health
We’re joining the UN’s Generation Equality initiative to contribute to the global effort for gender equality.
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The rise of a new category: Femtech
In 2009, I sat with an old phone in my hand — the kind with a small screen and actual buttons
by Ida Tin
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10 health facts Clue learned in 2018
Impress your friends and family with these menstrual and reproductive health facts.
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Diversity, equity and inclusion at the heart of Clue
Diversity, equity and inclusion are not end states. Like all real values, they are living concepts to which we must...
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Why does it cost so much to build an app, and who pays?
We don't make money from selling your personal health data—we choose the alternative. You can help support us by subscribing...
by Ida Tin
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The ways apps make money and spend money
Getting an app like Clue up and running is no small feat. Clue's CEO Ida Tin explains what's going on...
by Ida Tin
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Why we made a website
People deserve a different kind of online resource: a place where menstrual and reproductive health is taken seriously and with...
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Accessibility guide to the Clue office
Everything you need to know if you’re visiting us in Berlin.
by Jen Bell
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Clue and UNFPA Brazil sign partnership on reproductive and sexual health
Clue is the only period tracker and menstrual calendar app signatory of the Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and...