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@NeonsStyleHD
March 25, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Flooding my Subscription feed us a fast way to lose subscribers. I’m one day away from unsubbing due to you flooding my feed with My Big Idea! 😡
@1life686
March 26, 2025 at 1:24 am
There are bigger problems in life. Maybe focus on those and it might make you less salty.
@BonnieShadow33
March 26, 2025 at 1:26 pm
You are one person who doesn’t appreciate it. Many of us do appreciate it. Personally, I’m thrilled by this! It’s ok if you feel the need to unsubscribe or just take a break from TED. It’ll still be here if you decide to come back. 🙃
@jamesclarke8224
March 26, 2025 at 6:14 am
I think this is a great idea TED. I tried to anonymously email you my idea over 8 years ago. But sadly it just sat there collecting dust. But anyways, c’est la vie, & now I’m more resilient and wiser for that setback. Enough about me. I love the work that you do, & you’ve really helped me on my journey to self-fulfillment. So thank you TED 🙏 I really hope this new idea goes well. And that you discover some real gems of unsung heroes. People are amazing, and not all heroes wear capes!! ✌️💚
@BonnieShadow33
March 26, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Good for you, growing *because* of your setback! 🎉 I hope your idea comes to fruition one of these days, too.
@jamesclarke8224
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 am
@ thank you! 🙏 I hope my idea comes to fruition too 😊
@DominionAnako-bb7ry
March 26, 2025 at 7:37 am
Beautiful message ❤️ 💖 💕 ♥️ 💗
@shivangee_yadav_27_
March 27, 2025 at 7:04 am
Hlw
@nevarran
March 27, 2025 at 7:50 am
Cool.
@ZiggZagg11
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 am
I have often said that we are flushing away important health information down the tolit… Should make tolits take samples and do tests samples then gather and wifi send it to track trends and maybe catch diabetes or heart health or who knows early with data being flushed away… Expensive tolits indeed, but early health detection worth it… ❓
@ZiggZagg11
March 27, 2025 at 8:08 am
Maybe for the rich at first,… But could become cheaper the more that are made and I can see a day where everyone had one installed… Might have to “log on” before you log out… 👀
@ZiggZagg11
March 27, 2025 at 8:12 am
I am sure it has been thought of before… Just to expensive… 👀
@brentmunro5026
March 27, 2025 at 8:45 am
The idea to research menstrual blood, is a very good one. It is not your idea but a good one to promote. What disturbs me is your preamble victim narrative that poor woman have not been studied. Completely false! The reason research on drugs was mostly restricted was because of a thing called Thalidomide! Remember that, you don’t experiment on woman who have babies before its safety is determined by using men first, to protect woman. You completely distort the truth.
Far more money is put into woman’s health than men’s health because you have babies and so whole divisions of medicine are dedicated to woman’s health. Far more money is spent on breast cancer research than prostate cancer research, what’s up with that.
Researching menstrual blood is a good idea, no need to surround it with this false, poor victimized woman narrative.
@suvoribudni
March 27, 2025 at 6:14 pm
“Between 1956 and 1962, an estimated 8,000 and 12,000 children were born in several countries around the world with birth defects caused by mothers taking thalidomide during pregnancy. About 40% of newborns exposed to the drug during fetal development died before their first birthday.” – that is what you call “don’t experiment on woman who have babies before its safety is determined by using men first, to protect woman”?
@reedofwater
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 pm
@@suvoribudni Eh, you’re both right. There’s probably protectionism in play. Mistakes were made with thalidomide. Enormous amounts of funding go towards female medicine and has been for the last 40 years, easily.
@Sisi-Nohaha
March 27, 2025 at 8:46 am
The clipping strategy this video involved made me quite uncomfortable at first, but it was still an inspiring documentary, 👍
@Zoomo2697
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 am
What a wonderful brave soul, excellent inspiration and careful worded insight…🙏❤️
@arofibook
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 am
Menstrual blood study is excellent. Too bad 12 minutes of the video was spent on the old chestnut of how terrible it is that too many studies focus on men. Getting straight to the point is always best.
@reedofwater
March 28, 2025 at 3:49 pm
Absolutely, what an utter waste of time. I almost quit on the video.
@user-rz5ke5ct1k
March 27, 2025 at 10:02 am
👍
@AlanMGross
March 27, 2025 at 10:57 am
This is the third “Big Idea” I’ve watched. Overall, I’m underwhelmed … not by the ideas, but by the mostly irrelevant presentation. In this example, it took 12 of the 17 minutes to get to the actual idea. Chris Anderson, while usually brilliant, wasted 2 or 3 minutes of my (and everyone else’s) time promoting TED. I don’t need to see Karli rehearsing the talk or taking care of her kids. This could have been an impactful 5-minute presentation. Instead, I’m not sure I’m going to watch any more of these. 3 strikes and you’re out.
@Mariamarqss
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 pm
Ooh, someone’s bitter
@reedofwater
March 28, 2025 at 3:48 pm
I completely agree. Felt more like a vanity piece with an inconvenient presentation tacked on. I don’t care about this girl’s life any more than my mailman’s.
@photobobo
March 27, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Using the word miracle and scientific in the same sentence is disturbing nonsense. A miracle is a suspension of reality and has no place in science, or everyday life for that matter. We have to get away from the religious infection that has gripped this country. That starts by excluding religious terms and meanings.
@dustinmorrison6315
March 27, 2025 at 2:42 pm
This could have been a good video, but instead it felt like an episode of Shark Tank. TED is supposed to be “here’s how I changed the world” and not “here’s how the world could change”.
@BonnieShadow33
March 28, 2025 at 1:54 pm
Why are you putting TED into a box like that? Isn’t TED supposed to be “ideas worth sharing”? What’s wrong with TED bringing together the people with the ideas and the people who can help make it happen? What’s wrong with TED being part of the process of changing the world?
@U.S.bill2066
March 27, 2025 at 7:32 pm
”TED” MAKES ME VOMIT.
@BonnieShadow33
March 28, 2025 at 1:57 pm
Then ignore it. Don’t watch it. The world is big enough for you to avoid it.
@U.S.bill2066
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 pm
@@BonnieShadow33 Absolutely. I do not Watch it.
@BonnieShadow33
March 28, 2025 at 6:40 pm
@U.S.bill2066 Then why are you bothering to comment on it? 🤣
@U.S.bill2066
March 28, 2025 at 6:50 pm
@@BonnieShadow33 Because Im in Love WITH You
@lujandefelice
March 27, 2025 at 9:14 pm
This is a fantastic idea, and I’m glad it’s becoming more than just a concept. It’s inspiring to see TED evolving from simply sharing ideas to using its vast network to bring them to life. Some comments suggesting it should “get straight to the point” miss the essence of what makes an idea resonate — the power of storytelling. Saying, “Here’s my idea, use my menstrual blood for testing,” isn’t nearly as impactful as, “This is what’s been happening, how I arrived at this idea, and why I believe it matters.”
@TheresaStockdale
March 27, 2025 at 10:22 pm
Absolutely blown away by Karli Büchling’s powerful vision—and her courage to challenge centuries of stigma around women’s health. Her idea of a menstrual blood biobank isn’t just bold—it’s long overdue. Watching her take the TED stage, speak with fire and vulnerability, and immediately spark collaboration that could accelerate research and save lives? That’s the power of the right idea meeting the right moment.
@GravityEchoRise
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 am
Hi TED,
❤Gratitude for your powerful words that inspire courage, resilience, and achievement. The world is richer because of you!❤
@ladolcevitacoach
March 28, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Such a brilliant idea! Look forward to seeing this come to life, I’m ready to donate!🩸🤗
@bernadettecharlin5742
March 28, 2025 at 2:30 pm
Thanks you ❤
@reedofwater
March 28, 2025 at 3:39 pm
11:41 3min Ted Talk starts. The “monthly miracle” is starting routine blood tests by collecting menstrual blood.
They REALLY bury the lead here. Whole video feels like a vanity piece for this Dr. Karli Buchling. She gets in the way of her own success, I nearly quit the video and just started skipping through it looking for substance.
@U.S.bill2066
March 28, 2025 at 6:51 pm
@BonnieShadow33
@U.S.bill2066 Then why are you bothering to comment on it? 🤣
ANS: Because im IN love WITH YOU
@reemahmed7851
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Can you do research on the blood 🩸 of mother who gave birth. Can you resolve many problems or the problems of abnormal baby genetically or to follow Venus the planet cycle?
@suedimmlich2186
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 pm
Brilliant idea and thinking!
@amyhjboys
March 28, 2025 at 11:32 pm
Absolutely amazing!! Can’t wait to see the future!
@samirsarker9920
March 29, 2025 at 11:37 am
Thanks Dr. Karli for your innovation. Really it is amazing😍
@ezgiumut
March 29, 2025 at 7:05 pm
Congrats to doktor. It sounds good idea. After having blood bank , how are the collected samples used? Aim of the blood sample bank not only be to stop women’s fear during the blood collect process from veins but aldo helpful for other people having lökemia or other illnesses? Meanwhile some people told about talidomid’s dangerous results. Today there iş medicine developed from talidomide that iş used for multiple miyeloma cancer treatment.