Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Have you been surprised by what we do and don't know about pregnancy and birth today? If you are pregnant, or have been in the past, this show helps you understand what's happening (or has happened) to our bodies--both the short term and long term effects of this transformation. We explore the boundaries of our scientific grasp on the wildly complex processes of pregnancy and birth.
After my complicated pregnancies, I went looking for answers and have interviewed hundreds of experts about women's health in this transition.
Every Tuesday you'll hear:
- Scientists at the cutting edge who are trying to uncover how pregnancy and birth work and what happens when they don't work
- Information you could use to better understand your own body in pregnancy
- .A better sense of the limits of your responsibility for what's happening inside your body
- Listen to hear what you won't find on a blogpost or a book off the shelf.
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
What triggers Spontaneous Labor? A research based theory: conversation with Dr. Todd Rosen (Encore)
Today I'm gonna share an episode that was originally aired about a year and a half ago about what might be the trigger for starting spontaneous labor. It's kind of amazing that this fundamental experience that all of us have starts with a...
Looking for Patterns in your Menstrual Cycle as Keys to Overall Health: Conversation with Dr. Gombert-Labedens, Part II
We are at the cusp of understanding more about the complicated conversation going on between your brain, ovaries, and pituitary. Your menstrual cycle contains within it information about your overall health, and the work we'll talk about ...
What Can we learn about overall health by examining features of the menstrual cycle?: Conversation with Dr. Gombert-Labedens, Part I
Your menstrual cycle is the engine of reproduction and a window into your overall health. It's critical both for a successful pregnancy, and can tell us things about your endocrine, metabolic, immune, and cardiac systems. <...
What can an organoid teach us about the human menstrual cycle: Conversation with Dr. Margherita Turco, Part II
This is a glimpse of our future through the lens of the menstrual cycle. Women, on average, experience about 400 cycles in their lives, and the process is integrally connected to many other features of your overall health and, of course, ...
Inside the Black Box of your Menstrual Cycle: Conversation with Dr. Margherita Turco, Part I
For all recorded time, the human menstrual cycle has been kind of a mystery. Is your period too long? Is your period too short? Are you bleeding too much? Is there too much pain? It's hard to answer these questions because I'm...