GynoFiles

Women who have heavy bleeding are told to consider eliminating the uterine lining. The uterine lining is medically called the endometrium, and it is designed to be the lush baby bed. Originally, or as scientists like to say "ontogenetically" shedding the lining in the way of menstrual blood is to keep it fresh and ready for the next pregnancy. But I like to think of those menstrual periods as the first' blue stick' tests we had. We just needed that firm signal once our roles changed from ready to have a baby to baby present. So the lining is shed monthly, it's not destroyed permanently in the 'natural' premenopausal state. Of course we go back far enough in time women didn't actually have many of those shedding episodes at all. Women in cave times had about 20 menstrual cycles in their life, and now we have about 400. They were pregnant, they were breast feeding, they were malnourished, and no periods. Then physicians came up with a thought. Gyneco...