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.
Your menstrual cycle is incredibly important for your overall health and for your best chance at a successful pregnancy.
Creating a high-tech uterine lining each month that you will either continue to develop through a pregnancy or you'll eliminate if pregnancy isn't on the menu, is a biologically intensive and complex process. And there are a select few among all placental mammals who run this process the way humans do. Scientists estimate that less than 2% of placental mammals menstruate the way we do. Something like 84 species out of more than 5,000. All the primate species are relatively closely related, and we menstruate in a similar way, but there's also unexpected attendance at this intimate gathering of placental mammals that menstruate like us, including the spiny mouse, some species of bat, and the elephant shrew.
This week's topic is focused on why we essentially organize so many bodily functions around the way that we have a menstrual cycle, how on God's green earth we do it, and what information we can glean from keeping track of cycle to cycle variation.
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