We know that women can suffer in silence when it comes to their health and that their chronic pain is often ignored or underplayed by the health system. Women are more likely to wait 10 or more months for a diagnosis than men, and visit a health professional multiple times before their pain is taken seriously.

It’s called the ‘health gap’, or the idea that the medical system is geared towards solving the problems of men rather than women.

Take, for example, the fact that even though 70% of chronic pain sufferers are female, 80% of the studies are conducted on men (mice and humans). Or that women having heart attacks are more likely to be misdiagnosed and even discharged from hospital – seven times more likely, in fact – because clinical understandings of heart attacks are based on the male symptoms of them and not the female ones.

Jameela Jamil just reminded us why being open about health issues is so important