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  LAC WOMEN'S HEALTH — BLOG RSS FEED (English)   (T13)
  Path: /rss.xml  — Spanish peer at /es/rss.xml
  Summary feed: each <item> = title + link + excerpt + featured image.
  Feeds Publer auto-drafts downstream (LOAD-BEARING: malformed RSS silently
  breaks the auto-waterfall — always run tools/validate-rss.py after editing).

  ADD A POST (keep newest item FIRST):
    1. Copy one <item> block below.
    2. Fill <title>, <link>, <guid> (= the post URL), <pubDate> (RFC-822,
       e.g. "Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000" — day-of-week must be correct),
       <description> (the excerpt, inside CDATA), and BOTH image lines
       (<enclosure> and <media:content>) with the post's 1200x630 image URL.
    3. Update <lastBuildDate> in the channel to now.
    4. Run:  python3 tools/validate-rss.py   (must print OK for every feed)
    5. Mirror the change in the ES feed (/es/rss.xml) with the ES post.
  Full procedure: docs/blog-publishing.md
  ============================================================
-->
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    <description>Plain-language articles on menopause and women's health as part of primary care in Bakersfield, from LAC Women's Health.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>© 2026 LAC Medical Inc.</copyright>
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    <!-- H1 · Pillar P1 — LIVE 2026-07-14 (T8 Gate C signed; noindex removed; in sitemap).
         Feed is now eligible to connect to Publer as the H1 dry-run step. -->
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      <title>Menopause is a life stage, not a footnote</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Life Stage</category>
      <description><![CDATA[For a stage of life roughly half of all people go through, menopause spends a strange amount of time being treated like a side note. Here's why it belongs in your primary care — not at the bottom of the chart.]]></description>
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