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
Why the Menstrual Cycle is so important for Fertility and Pregnancy
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We are going to talk about the menstrual cycle, aka the result of the conversation between your brain, pituitary and ovaries that’s going on each months to create the conditions for you to build a human.
How does your body accomplish this amazing feat?
You likely experience your menstrual cycle, and your period in particular, as an inconvenience, but evolution put a lot of hard work into this process and it turns out to be pretty nifty.
We’ll also talk about the why today. Most mammals don’t have a menstrual cycle. Why do we think humans do?
And how are the ways we have figured out to control that cycle operating in this complicated chemical conversation going on in your body?
Are the movers and shakers of the menstrual cycle, the specialized cells that make all these changes happen each month, are they good for anything else?
We’ll walk through these topics today.
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