My mother who does not know how to distinguish between science and pseudoscience:

It’s clearly your mitochondria creating less energy because your brain tells them to not do anything because you are lazy. You need to try. I saw an instagram reel about it!

(I have a known lifelong immune illness which greatly restricts my energy capacity but my mum says I’m not “being positive”)

Thanks.

While the daily beast is a fun read, it’s hard to make out where they exaggerate and dramatify things

Proud cat lady here

This isn’t even bronze age bruh some primitive societies had women who specialised into certain tasks not have children for various reasons. Or even for paganist (religious) reasons.

Agree with what this article says, but in general particular caution should be used with this source, from wikipedia:

There is no consensus on the reliability of Democracy Now!. Most editors consider Democracy Now! a partisan source whose statements should be attributed. Syndicated content published by Democracy Now! should be evaluated by the reliability of its original publisher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources