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Women health problems and Work going on in a Boston laboratory with rodents could hold the key to ending the menopause for ever, and making Chapter Four irrelevant, Just think, no more menopausal symptoms and moist skin, and a moist vagina, for life. No need to squeeze having children into the most pressured time of your life as you thrust your way up the career ladder. You’ll be able to have them at your leisure as a fit forty (or fifty or sixty) something. Think of how much pressure that will relieve, not having to have your biological clock ticking ever louder in your ears! Dr Jonathan Tilly at Harvard Medical School was deluged by telephone calls from desperate women when it was reported that he may have found a way to make menopause a thing of the past. He like a good research scientist, was appalled, and stressed that his research is still in its early stages and that it’s a long way from laboratory experiments with mice and test tubes to working with real women in a clinical setting. But it’s hard not to get excited by the possible implications of his work for fertility and longevity in the Women health problems.
He has discovered how to stop the death of egg cells in female mice. My work shows that the female eggs were actively taking part in their suicide, he explained. So if we could block even one of the three signals that set off this process we could block virtually all the deaths. His work has shown that cells die from a process called apoptosis. One of the cell death triggers is ceramide, a fat molecule which he has been able to inhibit with another naturally occurring compound in the body if you must know it goes by the name of sphingosine – 1 – phosphate in the Women health problems. It should have no unpleasant side effects on healthy women, he says. We’ve flooded mouse eggs with sphingosine – 1 – phosphate and found that if it is present, ceramide can’t activate the death machine. His work at the moment is aimed towards trying to preserve fertility in female cancer patients, whose apoptosis is set in train by the powerful anti tumour drugs used in treating them. But it could also be used eventually to stop or at least postpone menopause in healthy women. He agreed that being able to delay or prevent the menopause, not necessarily to provide fertility into great age but to prevent health problems from lack of functioning ovaries such as bone density loss and a greater tendency towards heart disease could be a valuable application of his work.
In the meantime, women who want to be fertile in later must rely on donated eggs from younger women, as it is still at the time of writing impossible to successfully freeze a woman’s ova like a man’s sperm can be. This many change rapidly. Eventually, however, there should be ‘ova banks’ as there are sperm banks, where a woman can store her own eggs when she’s at her peak of fertility in her twenties until she meets the man, or chooses the sperm, she wants to fertilize it. She needn’t even worry about interrupting her career or running her figure with pregnancy, as she will surely be able to find a surrogate to carry the baby to term, or perhaps, by then, it will all be done in a laboratory. Then women will no longer, as they do today, have to spend half their reproductive lives trying not to have babies and the other half worrying that they will be too late. One British hormone and fertility expert has boasted that even at the moment he could ‘prep Cleopatra’s mummy’s womb for childbirth’ by giving the fertility hormones which have made it possible for women in their late fifties and, now, even over sixty, like Elizabeth Buttle, to give birth Health , beauty therapies, weight loss packages, skin care and hair loss preventive treatments – all under One roof – Shed extra flab and get the perfect fitness and start looking fantastic – why to struggle for years ? |
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