Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
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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 workInformation 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 bodyListen to hear what you won't find on a blogpost or a book off the shelf.
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The podcast focuses on a wide range of topics such as the complexities of the endometrium's role in fertility, immune system interactions during pregnancy, the efficacy of aspirin in preventing preterm birth, and the significance of placental examination in maternal health. Specific episodes discuss groundbreaking research on uterine contractions, maternal health data, and the psychological impacts of childbirth like PTSD, aiming to demystify the pregnancy process while providing listeners actionable insights.
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.
Historically, one of the reasons for excluding women from clinical trials has been the idea that women's menstrual cycles have made their data too variable to study.
Wearable tech can and is having an impact on this specific issue, as researchers use data from watches and rings to not only track a cycle, but beyond that, to track many other aspects of physiology at the same time.
In fact researchers are now moving beyond that simple goal to try to make sense of these physiological changes in the context of our cycles. Today, I finish my conversation with Dr. Sarah Johnson, who's looking at data from wearables to understand both normal cycles and those impacted by various forms of birth control.
The menstrual cycle through the lens of a wearable device: insights into physiology, sleep and cycle variability : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02799-9
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