Pregnancy is one of the most intense biological events a human body can go through. During the ten (yes, ten) months of pregnancy, blood volume rises by nearly half, the heart ramps up its workload, the immune system rewires, and multiple organs remodel in parallel. At the cellular level, pregnancy affects much of the same machinery that drives aging itself: immune activation, oxidative stress, DNA damage and repair, and changes in blood vessels. Seen through that lens, it’s fair to ask how a pregnancy (or several of them) shifts the way a woman’s 50s, 60s, and 80s will play out.…
The Biological Bill of Pregnancy
