Tired of suffering from "death cramps" for 20 years, Kate Helen Downey has to find her own answers. She interviews top doctors and researchers, and delves into topics from period poops to endometriosis surgery to TikTok wellness scams, all to figure out why menstrual pain is so often dismissed and untreated. What she finds will change how you think about your own body and the medical system. Because having a microphone gets you more answers than having a uterus.
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
33%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for CRAMPED.
Signup to Generate a PitchTired of suffering from "death cramps" for 20 years, Kate Helen Downey has to find her own answers. She interviews top doctors and researchers, and delves into topics from period poops to endometriosis surgery to TikTok wellness scams, all to figure out why menstrual pain is so often dismissed and untreated.
Recent episodes include "Guillotines, Axe Murders, and Menstrual Blood: A CRAMPED Halloween" (27 October 2026, 12 minutes), "You Might Like: Pleasure People (produced by Kate!)" (22 October 2026, 29 minutes), and "Wulf Women: The Endo Surgeon Directory Built by a Patient Who Got Burned" (20 October 2026, 56 minutes).
CRAMPED publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes.
Booking probability for CRAMPED is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. CRAMPED requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. CRAMPED's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for CRAMPED are Health & Wellness Services. CRAMPED has a health audience.
CRAMPED is a health podcast.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Episode #53
Join the Patreon (even at the free tier) to listen to the full episode! https://www.patreon.com/CRAMPED Did Lizzie Borden get away with murdering her father and stepmother in 1892 partly because Victorian investigators...
CRAMPED
This whole year, I've been secretly working on a 6-episode audio series about the Magic Wand Study - and now it's out! I teamed up with DB from Sex Ed with DB, and CRAMPED Season 1's sound designer Kelly, to make this...
Episode #52
Deb's story sounds like a lot of crampers' stories: she was on birth control, started having pain and GI issues, and sought answers from her doctor. Despite doing her research, she ended up getting a surgery that not...
Episode #50
You probably saw the news: the condition formerly known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovary Syndrome (PMOS). So...what does that mean exactly? Why did the name need to be changed...
Episode #49
Join the Patreon (even at the free tier) to listen to the full episode! https://www.patreon.com/CRAMPED Why do so few endometriosis excision surgeons take insurance? In this 2024 interview with leading endo excision...
Episode #48
I talk to co-founder and CEO Ridhi Tariyal about the information in menstrual effluent that's missing from a regular blood draw, and how NextGen Jane is using it to come at endometriosis from both ends: a non-invasive...
Episode #43
One thing I've learned in the last 23 years of severe period pain - it's EXPENSIVE! Between the medications and devices to manage the pain, lost wages from extra sick days, and doctors and procedures that aren't covered...
Episode #42
Join the Patreon (even at the free tier) to listen to the full episode! https://www.patreon.com/CRAMPED Back in 2024, there were a ton of headlines about heavy metals being found in tampons. So...what happened with...
Episode #41
Huge news for anyone with painful periods who's ever thought "I wonder if I have endometriosis??" - now you can either spit in a tube, or stick some electrode pads on your belly, and know within a few minutes or days...
Episode #40
I don't want to freak you out, but between 70-90% of people with uteruses WILL get fibroids at some point in their menstruating years. So what do we need to know?? Dr. Soyini Hawkins, gynecologist, minimally invasive...
CRAMPED
Enjoy this episode of Cristen Conger's excellent podcast Unladylike! The perimenopause boom is old news, but where did it come from, and why does it make some ob-gyns wary? Cristen investigates what we do – and don’t –...
Episode #39
Join the Patreon (even as a free member!) to listen to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/CRAMPED Comedian Jenny Zigrino was posting so many hilarious videos about endo studies on Instagram that I invited her...
Episode #38
Representative Yassamin Ansari has passed out from cramps in a New York bodega and in a hair salon with foils in her hair. She KNOWS period pain. She is also the Arizona congresswoman who just introduced the HER Agenda...
Episode #38
About three months after her endo excision surgery, Kate noticed something unexpected lurking underneath all her ideas about her health: a subconscious belief that once her period pain was fixed, she would automatically...
Episode #37
Writer, podcaster, and comedian Courtney Kocak talks about her period pain history, her Hashimoto's diagnosis, and the longevity drug she's currently taking to try to delay menopause and preserve her ovarian reserve...
Episode #36
PATREON-ONLY EPISODE TEASER Join the CRAMPED Patreon to listen to the full episode: https://patreon.com/cramped I've spent spent years learning to advocate for myself, trust my body, and walk out of rooms where I'm not...
Episode #35
Scale of one to ten, how much does it hurt? If you have ever sat in an ER thinking "eleven" and said "seven," Golda Arthur of the Overlooked podcast understands completely. She did the same thing during a thunderclap...
Episode #34
Content warning: this episode includes a brief discussion of suicide attempts, please listen with care. Melissa, known on TikTok as the Comorbidity Queen, has endometriosis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, pelvic congestive...
Episode #33
PATREON-ONLY EPISODE TEASER Join the CRAMPED Patreon to listen to the full episode: https://patreon.com/cramped Did we need a data science professor to tell us why a study titled " Attractiveness of women with...
Episode #32
There's a very obvious gap in the healthcare market: millions of people in serious pain every month, and almost no companies trying to solve it. In this episode, Kate talks to Sushma Ravindran, founder of Ask Nomi, an...
Recent guests on CRAMPED. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
PitchCentric classifies CRAMPED under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Healthy, Period.
The Cyclist
The Girls Room After Dark
Endo Untangled
The Endo Edit: An Endometriosis Podcast
Pelvic Pain unPacked: Real Talk About Pain, Pleasure, & Wellness
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ