"It is very important to women. I think it's an upgrade that we have in life. The female world, the existence of women is much larger, more comprehensive and complex, much more magical. I always spoke of it, talk openly about menstruation, menopause. Because until some time the woman was the muse of man only .. Now you do not: it is his own muse. ".- Rita Lee, Brazilian singer, Page 12, 22 / 9 / 02 What is menstruation?
Menstruation is the monthly fall in a cycle endometrial variable, which can be completed in about 28 to 36 days. The endometrium itself is a marvel. It is the best thermal blanket, the most comfortable pad you can imagine. And you can not buy: you just get into your útero.Es subtle and fine fabric, softer than silk, warmer than wool, the foam fluffier, lighter than a feather. It is light and fluffy, warm, nutritious, and is formed in the wall of the uterus, waiting for a fertilized egg from implanting in him, becoming an embryo to fetus and from fetus to baby, welcoming, sheltering, feeding, cushioning and protecting movements during lasting nine months pregnant. It's the best cradle that may exist. And would like a sleep in a bed like that.
If pregnancy does not occur, month after month, capillaries that make up the endometrium to break down and their blood spilled falling out through the vagina.
"When you start this process? When the pituitary (a tiny gland lodged in the brain), I ordered the ovaries at any time between 8 and 18. Mature ovarian follicle number (between 10 and 20), one of which releases an egg (the rest is reabsorbed by the ovary), while sending hormones to prepare the uterus to warn that the mattress is the endometrium. The fallopian tubes look the part of the ovary where will the tiny egg, and absorb it like a vacuum. The egg is the largest of human cells similar in size to the point of this letter i. The tubes have such a frenzy to catch the egg that no obstacle to do so. We know of women who become pregnant suffer from endometriosis, women who became pregnant taking one quarter of the ovary, and others who became pregnant by having a single horn on the side opposite his one ovary the other side. The egg travels down the tube on a journey driven by internal tides produciads by millions of cilia that push it as little hands of a stadium rock concert Pelnar push a giant ball. This trip takes about two days. If no fertilization, it is implanted in the uterus and menstruation begins. This cycle repeats endlessly from menarche until menopause (technically, when you go one year without menstruation) occurs between 40 and 60 years.
What thing is the menstrual blood? Somewhere I read that in each menstrual leave your body about 100 milliliters of fresh blood, like the one emerging from a finger prick. That amounts to half a glass of red wine. So if you are repulsed by taking half a glass of red wine, or makes you sick lick an injured finger, much less disgust should give the author Germaine Greer menstruación.Dice [1] that "the disgust of women to their period is measured in the fact that just thinking about licking a drop of menstrual blood is repugnant to all. " However, of all things that expels the body, menstruation is the most clean, odorless and less loathing should give. Your cleaning mechanism is identical to tears, and its purity is similar to these, but these are not disgusting and menstrual blood itself. Urine, faeces, vomit, mucus, pus and debris colds are dirty. Menstrual blood is, however, an invention wonderfully clean, a highly sophisticated system that have been devised to viviparous egg is the same belly of the mother, and not have to be nine months collecting dry twigs and loose feathers to a nest egg hatching the child, who would be the only we needed: no power or move to warm the egg. I can only imagine in the back contracture. The endometrium is as clean as fresh egg inside. If you are repulsed not touch the contents of a hen's egg, much less disgust should give you your own endometrium. So you have two paths: either you are friends of your endometrium or not dare to try a fried egg in your life anymore.
The endometrium is not old or stale or foul. Just falls apart, you go. Therefore, it is fresh blood, more or less dense because of the degree of clotting that occurred while the endometrium is melted. Some women lose blood very liquid, some lose as lint denser egg-red and other important density clots lose all presentations being normal endometrium post-measured one millimeter before forming, but when complete, get to have a thickness of about 7mm, which melt away by broken capillaries, as menstrual blood.
If you are impressionable people who can not see blood, you will probably have the menstruación.Pero thing if it impresses you with meat to make a stew or heal a wound, you should give that disgust ditch towards menstruation is a holdover atavistic imposed from outside. And a modern girl should not be left suggestible by antediluvian macho style messages "hate your own blood." Dice
Karen Houppert in his book "The Curse" ("The Curse"), that if menstruation was something so disgusting as a cold, it is curious that this is not the same way: "people who have colds not walk with handkerchiefs hiding colleagues family ... so why women should hide their feminine napkins? ". Being something that happens to half of humanity, menstruation is treated with suspicious secrecy and shame.
[1] In "The Female Eunuch"
menses much, little or nothing?
gynecology textbooks say that a woman can normal menstruating four tablespoons to a cup of menstrual blood. I do not know what gynecologist has written that, but certainly his wife was very sad locked in the bathroom with Peaches and a cup between her legs as the Dr. Mengele outside shouted: "And what have you been filling cuacharads How many?" for four days. If lake that measures the flow is the amount of towels and tampons you use, not spoonfuls you use. Unless the chocolate ice cream cucharads you swallow in the gutter as a measure menstrual mensrruacion. There are women who are menstruating brag a lot, when the truth is that they fail to spot a single buffer on the first day. How to know if you a light menstruating or brave? How do you know if your friend really needs cotton, or you just want to empty your package to decorate your Christmas tree? Three mad scientists devoted their lives to measure the volume of menstrual flow, so in honor of that effort, we will appoint. They call Mansfield-Voda-Jorgensen and prepared for life on a scale of 1 to 6, equal to that of the earthquake, only this describes the tsunami at home women menstrual variables. Measurement scale
menstrual
Cataract
red blood Tsunami whale or menstruation: A menstruation that does not stop with sandbags to stop INSUD was called menorrhagia. But her friends with menorrhagia not named, for fear of being soiled car seat. The recipe? Staying at home sitting on a bucket and a transfusion of blood of any group and factor ... Urgent!
heavy bleeding or earthquake. It is typical of the girl you're talking about and goes three times an hour to change the pad. His sentence faboritas: "Where is the bathroom?". You realize that you are of this type because everyone says you have the pants manchado.Para make much blood loss, researchers say you should eat with iron-rich foods such as blood, nails, screws and horseshoes crushed and sprinkled in soups, salads and yogurt. Te conviene comprar sabánas y toallas rojas.
Sangrado moderado o chubascos menstruales: No precisas ir al baño con tanta frecuencia: solo cuando todas las mujeres de la mesa se levantan para chismorrear juntas en el baño. Si nadie se levanta, tu toallita alcanza para que solo te manches con sangre los bordecitos de la bombacha. Si no fuera porque para ahorrar le pides tampones a medio mundo, nadie sabría que estás con la regla.
Sangrado leve o lloviznas. Te cambias la toallita una sola vez por dia , cuando regresas a casa . A veces olvidas por completo que estás con la regla y te preguntas cómo hiciste para mancharte con ketchup la parte interior de la bombacha…”¿Tan borracha estaba yo en this event?. "
very slight bleeding or spotting: I get a drop of blood, nothing more, as you can say you're a woman. Not worth it to spend on feminine wipes, put a dressing as you use for a cut on his finger and with that you reach and it goes for a whole week. favor: Never complain of the rule. Cons: never understand why others complain.
The perfect little clock hormonal cocktail
all starts with a well-guarded gland deep in the brain, which is the hypothalamus, which sends chemical signals throughout the body sa controlling physiological cycles such as hunger, sleep and menstruation. The hypothalamus is sensitive to changes in schedules, to daylight, the shocks and stress, which are things that can change your appetite, sleep and menstrual cycle. The hypothalamic hormone levels recorded with the blood. The first day of your menstrual cycle, your levels of estrogen (female hormone par excellence) are very low. The hypothalamus records this and tells the pituitary gland (which is also in the brain) to send two hormones into the bloodstream: the luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). When these hormones reach the ovarios, estimulan a uno de ellos a madurar de 10 a 20 folículos, que son grupos de células que contienen un óvulo inmaduro. Cuando una niña nace tiene 40.000 óvulos inmaduros, suficientes para más de una vida, que le dan una 360 posibilidades de concebir un hijo. Mientras los folículos maduran, comienzan a secretar estrógenos, que ordena al útero a hacer crecer el endometrio nuevamente. O sea que en el exacto momento en que comienza la menstruación tu útero ya recibe la orden de comenzar a armar nuevamente el endometrio. Luego de 14 días después del primer día de la menstruación, uno de los folículos que estaban madurando es más grande que los otros, y contiene el óvulo que se soltará - Mature - this month. The estrogen level is very high right now, so the pituitary gland responds by lowering the follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and increasing luteinizing hormone (LH). This jump makes a giant in the ovarian follicle, which suddenly called Graafian follicle, progress towards the ovarian surface and explode like a volcano, releasing the egg free. This is what is known as ovulation. Sensitive funnels called fallopian tubes have their fingers full of rolling entry called fimbria, which push the egg into the fallopian tube is a tube through which the egg passes from 12 to 26 hours shooting toward the uterus. If during this time the egg meets a sperm healthy and vital, fertilization occurs. This task is so difficult for the ovaries, which usually take turns to make the process every other month. If both ovaries are stimulated at the same time and released two eggs that are fertilized, this results in non-identical twins, because they are fertilized with two eggs and two sperm. The twins are identical or identical triplets are the result of an ovum and a sperm to form two embryos divided identical genetic makeup, creating two identical babies. The hair that broke releasing the egg still has homework to do: it becomes a gland called the "corpus luteum" because to yellow. Is dedicated to producing estrogen, but more importantly because it was said pumping the hormone progesterone, the protagonist of pregnancy, which gives the order of forming the endometrium, the uterine mattress rich in nutrients, destined to be the place where the nest embryo. Progesterone tells the pituitary gland in the brain to stop issuing the luteinizing hormone or LH, which is what makes it work by sending the corpus luteum progesterone. Thus, the corpus luteum works about 12 days in total, unless the egg is fertilized. The corpus luteum then collapses, stops sending progesterone and estrogen, and sending prostaglandin that causes the capillaries of the endometrium collapse and dispose all the mattress and fall. In truth falls not all, but only two thirds of the endometrium. The base is preserved and sustained enough to regenerate again. Tba curious is this process that scientists worldwide are studying it, amazed. Scientists at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan, say the base layer of the endometrium that never melts under the influence of the hormone estradiol "grow back and restart a unique way in the nature of angiogenesis, and regenerates on its surface a new functional layer of endometrium. The molecular and cellular mechanisms by which reduce this recovery remain elusive to the scientific world, mainly due to the inability to reproduce the formation, breakdown and disintegration of the endometrium, and subsequent regeneration in vitro " [1] words, the same process that gives humanity repulsion from ... always to have stunned the scientists still do not understand how it occurs!
On the first day of menstruation, estrogen levels are so low that the hypothalamus signals the pituitary start sending LH and FSH ... and so the cycle begins again from scratch, again and again to over six to ten years of every woman's life. Throughout the process, do not rest your pituitary gland or hypothalamus, or ovaries, or tubes or the uterus or endometrial base layer that plays alone at a staggering speed, for four days after self-immolation. From your brain to your genitals, your whole body is engaged in the cycle is repeated if you pause. It is a wonderful precision mechanism that works like a clock that does all that while you look at a magazine, totally unconcerned about it.
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
: The normal cycle hormones
The cycle is divided into three stages:
Ovarian Follicular phase lasting 10 to 14 days from the first day of menstruation. Is the time where there is the maturation of follicles to end with the formation of Graafian follicle or mature, which will fulfill the process of ovulation. This stage is mainly promoted by the pituitary follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). The ovarian follicle secretes estrogen and progesterone, among other substances.
stage is followed by ovulation, when the mature follicle ruptures and leaves the ovary into the fallopian tubes. It is triggered by the peak of luteinizing hormone (LH), lower estrogen and progesterone increases, starting luteinization of the follicle with consequent formation of the corpus luteum.
The last stage is the Ovarian progestational phase lasts 14 days after ovulation, with a progressive decrease in plasma concentration of estrogen and progesterone increased, qye causes the endometrium to mature and disarmament and menstruation. If during the cycle there was no fertilization, the corpus luteum degenerates subsequently causing the corpus albicans (scar) and causing the drop in estrogen and progesterone, which is when menstruation occurs then.
What happens if there is fertilization? Sperm live up to five days in the uterus waiting for the egg and the fastest climb up the trunks to anarle the rest and come before the egg, a feat that sometimes manage only five minutes after ejaculation. Do not know how sperm find the egg in the vast darkness of the uterus and fallopian tubes, and assumes that what attracts them is a scent secreted by the egg, the "Eau d'egg." Fertilization occurs when one sperm manages to break the membrane around the egg, usually the strongest and most persistent (that is how women choose men). Apone the egg opens the door to this male persevering inemediantamente close all doors and windows to keep out not one but (the egg knows that a male is useful, but both are a nightmare and great expense). In fact, although not known by only one sperm can enter and others perish in the attempt. At this moment both forget who they were and are united in a single embryo, losing the essence of their indivuidualidades desthio towards a common: a child. Of course, the egg is always a woman and sperm that decides if the embryo is XX (female) or XY (boy): the baby's sex is defined by the parent, not the mother. The fertilized egg multiplies hour after hour and reaches the uterus in the form of a default, by appearance of cells stuck together, so called morula: The morula lands in the uterine wall sinks into the warm and hearty endometrium and once implanted there and is called an embryo. And pregnancy is ongoing. Once implanted the embryo produces a hormone called chorionic gonadotropin. This is the ovary and does continue to produce estrogen and progesterone cause the endometrium to be sustained and not disarm all throughout the pregnancy. After this task is made by the placenta, a sort of primitive lung that is formed from the same embryo, and remains attached to the baby through the umbilical cord, which goes through glasses attached to the walls of the uterus, which function is to feed the baby in the later stages of development.
You see, menstruation is the result of internal orders that are made inside your body without you even knowing about. Who
best explained this process was a Walt Disney animated film in black and white made in 1946 on behalf of the company Kotex feminine wipes. This film, called "The Menstruation Cycle" ("The Menstrual Cycle") - which can be viewed on the website YouTube, with illustrative drawings and female voice explains in clear terms that the endometrium is a "velvety surface, which cycle "is a perfectly normal routine repeating, that there is nothing strange or mysterious about "and that" one more than the eternal nature plans to spend the gift of life. " And menstruating women should "not to dramatize the discomforts, exercise, keep smiling and" not feel pity, because you are living a natural process. " The only anachronism that emerges is that the white girl's house before getting pregnant. The rest could be issued today without changing a word. What good it would have been if Disney had engaged in further explaining these things instead of so dumb movie Winnie the Pooh and Donald Duck!.
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