My morning began with spillage of hot coffee on myself at about 7:50 am at work. I was literally drenched. I then proceeded later to slip on my kitchen floor holding Boo, burning skin with friction trying to break my fall then falling flat on my back. Later I took Am to her physiotherapy appointment where there was no appointment. I could go on, but what's the point.
My dear friend Helen swears that everything is meant to be and there are great lessons to be learned. No mood to learn any lessons. I would rather sky dive naked and drunk.
John Rock was a catholic doctor that supposedly invented the pill. His take was that the pill was a natural form of birth control because it duplicated the chemical, progestin which is a chemical in women that prevents ovulation. Strassmann a female scientist was in a way also trying to analyze what was "natural" in the female biology. She went to Africa and stayed with a native tribe there for 2 and a half years. She concluded that most women in the tribe menstruate 100 times in their lifetime compared to about 350 to 400 times in western women.
Apparently, whenever a woman ovulates the egg literally bursts through the walls of the ovaries. To heal this puncture, the cells of the ovary wall have to divide and reproduce. This cell division holds a risk for something to go wrong. Cancer occurs when cells divide and reproduce, they can make "mistakes" that cripple the cell's defenses against runaway growth. Thus, putting women more at risk for cancer and such. Thus, when women get pregnant and breast feed, this gives the body a break and saves her ovarian walls from months of cell division.
The question of natural has changed. Women now have evolved. We generally have children later, and sometimes not at all. This apparently stresses our system. Thus, compared to our counterparts even a century prior, as our choices and options widen, it has it seems taken a toll on the "natural" aspects of our biology. Our biology in reproduction still seems to be at it's prime in our late teens and twenties, however, most of us aren't have children and breast feeding and providing the "natural flow"...
So much of progress sometimes contributes to our demise, and in our day today, it seems that taking the pill and such aids in our health and prevents ovarian and endometrial cancer, just as it seems the statistics that show that pregnancy and breast feeding lowers breast cancer risk.
What seems to be natural then may not be today as we evolve and "progress".
