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EPISODE · Oct 16, 2025 · 26 MIN

Your Uterine Lining determines if and how a pregnancy progesses: Conversation with Dr. Jan Brosens, Part II

from Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body · host Paulette Kamenecka

 If you wanna know what factors contribute to miscarriages, you need to understand what factors contribute to and detract from making the uterus into a hospitable place for pregnancy, both implantation and development. My guest last week, Dr. Jan Brosens, spoke about some of the key conditions that make implantation and development more and less likely, namely the presence of the just right mix of endometrial cells, some of which are progesterone responsive and progesterone resistant. But a fuller picture of the process suggests that there are other critical dimensions in this process of making the uterus hospitable. It's not just timing, but location that's important. 

If you wanna know what factors contribute to miscarriages, you need to understand what factors contribute to and detract from making the uterus into a hospitable place for pregnancy, both implantation and development. My guest last week, Dr. Jan Brosens, spoke about some of the key conditions that make implantation and development more and less likely, namely the presence of the just right mix of endometrial cells, some of which are progesterone responsive and progesterone resistant. But a f...

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