Updated 1/2023. In part 2, we talk about how endometriosis is different from the endometrium in terms of its estrogen and progesterone receptors. These directly affect the biological processes of the endometriotic tissue, causing it to act differently than the endometrium does in response to estrogen and progesterone, ultimately leading to… you guessed it! Pain…

Updated 1/2023. We talk about some of the roles that estrogen can play in endometriosis and how it can make it’s own localized estrogen. We dispel the myth of retrograde menstruation and discuss why mouse endometriosis models are problematic. We also discuss the myths that everyone with endometriosis is estrogen dominant (not true!) or that…