http://earthatwork.com/2010/01/01/blue-sky-ahead/ Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://earthatwork.com/2010/01/01/blue-sky-ahead/#comment-82 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:32:09 +0000 http://earthatwork.com/?p=354#comment-82 Apparently about half of us have it. My gynae’s belief is that it’s because we bear children so late in life now and therefore mensturate more often and for much longer than our ancestors did – and probably much more than we ought. Perhaps this is a cost of the our emancipation: we can change our socio-economic patterns in a generation but biology takes time to catch up. It would be interesting to look at endometriosis stats for the developed and developing world, where women have more children and have them much earlier in life.

]]> http://earthatwork.com/2010/01/01/blue-sky-ahead/#comment-81 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:57:45 +0000 http://earthatwork.com/?p=354#comment-81 Shame Viv – hope you are feeling better. You are my third friend to be diagnosed with this

]]>