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Female reproductive function
is dependent upon highly specific but changing differentiation
states in the tissues of the reproductive tract. A precise
system including the hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal
axis regulates the cyclic patterns of tissue differentiation
essential to fertility and pregnancy.
It is important
to note that the female body is evolutionarily engineered to
reproduce the species, with pregnancy and lactation
being the normal states. It is biologically selected neither
for continuous non-pregnant cycles, nor for old age. Thus it
is easy to understand how the extremely dynamic states of the
tissues which encourage pregnancy could readily become dysregulated
or transformed in these non-natural states which have not been
subjected to generations of selection pressure. The results
represent the major female pathologies of breast, ovarian,
uterine and cervical cancers, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian
syndrome (PCOS), infertility and all of the ailments associated
with age and
the attainment
of post-menopausal status. |
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