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
Looking for Patterns in your Menstrual Cycle as Keys to Overall Health: Conversation with Dr. Gombert-Labedens, Part II
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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 today gets us one step closer to deciphering important elements of this conversation.
In particular, by organizing data according to the rhythm of menstrual cycles, we are looking not only at a level change, for example, is temperature going up or down in different parts of the cycle, but at the daily context in which temperature changes, which allows us to look for patterns in this change over time.
In the future, we may be able to use these patterns to diagnose not only issues with reproductive health (ie, PMDD, endometriosis, etc.), but with health overall.
Identifying Menstrual Metrics as Personal Health Markers: Age Trends and Individual Footprints in Temperature across 5674 cycles: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb1175
Nanotechnology looking at measuring hormones: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01513-0