Maternal Health

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.

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.