FIRST STUDY: collagen (think cartilage, fascia, tendons, & ligaments) production influenced by female hormones (think estrogen/birth control pills). Missing link vs. epidemic (1:10 women, many with Hypermobility) of Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) & symptoms labeled “Endometritis”...
Certainly, research has adequately demonstrated that mast cells are activated in/by hypermobile tissues (Lyons 2016; Wang et al, 2010). Modern day clinician gynecologists (e.g. Sheckin) have recently disavowed that errant endometrial cells are causal of “Endometriosis”.
And why is “Endometriosis” a female disorder? Well it is obvious, women have wandering uteri. Even Ancient Greek Physicians knew this, & is how they discovered the etiology of a mental disorder they labeled “hysteria” (hysterectomy, womb, uterus; get it?).
Idea that natural selection & evolution of species would generate physiological disorder & inveterate pain in pelvises of 10% of aboriginal wandering-tribe members begs question. Absence of sex partners & other services of women might be expected to cause men to deselect them.
A better explanation for the seeming burgeoning phenomenon of “Endometriosis” might be a pervasive expansion of synthetic hormones making their way into our ecosystem.
Perhaps some gynecologically oriented epidemiologists need to trek into the deepest Amazon jungle and study the phenomenon of “Endometriosis” in aboriginal women as they track about the jungle giving birth in the wild.
Certainly, the diagnosis of “Endometriosis” is a clinical one based on symptoms, so that clip boards & questionnaires are easily transported. Biopsies do not seem to be the mainstay of diagnosis & plenty of women with tissue changes of “Endometriosis” have no symptoms.
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So is this study the missing link between birth control pills and “Endometriosis” (which I inadvertently labeled “Endometritis” early in my discussion)? Who knows?
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