“Are You Saying The Entire Medical Establishment Knows Nothing About Prolapse?”

Not so very long ago, all the world’s most eminent scientists thought the world was flat. Just because they were eminent didn’t make them correct. I urge all thinking women to read Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions so you will understand that such mass misperceptions are not only probable, they are inevitable. And in every generation many scientists go to their graves firmly espousing theories that have been completely demolished by their colleagues.

A revolution on a grand scale is taking place in the area of female pelvic health, but unfortunately medical science is the last to know about it. This is hardly surprising given obstetrics and gynecology’s very dark history – a history that lives on in the present moment in hospitals and doctor’s offices throughout the developed world.

At the beginning of women's healthcare we have obstetricians educated by "distinguished" researchers, like M.M Abitbol, who have passed off the utterly ridiculous as “science” to convince generations of doctors that women are inadequate and defective:

“As a practicing obstetrician, I can definitely state that the relationship between the narrow human pelvis and the enlarged fetal head is disproportional or at least a tight fit…Human intervention can either ‘ease’ obstetric demands on the pelvis or completely bypass them (c-section), and this can make obstetric demands less imposing from an evolutionary point of view.”

Beyond obstetrics we have an entire field of medicine devoted to “repairing” injuries sustained during high tech childbirth, as well as the surgical treatment of women with postural and lifestyle-induced prolapse and incontinence. Doctor-sponsored websites continue to warn that childbirth is “dangerous” while also espousing the “success” of surgeries for prolapse and incontinence. All the while ignoring the tidal wave of information confirming that every one of these operations is fraught with failure.

These facts are very disturbing to many women who have grown up deeply trusting gynecology, and also to the doctors themselves who understand “There is no money to be made from preventative measures” (Magnus Murphy, MD.) In reality, doctors cannot afford to stop the very procedures that are robbing women of their health. However, the world can no longer afford to subject half its population to a blind and ignorant system of medicine that chooses (did someone say ‘conspiracy’?) to ignore basic anatomical realities that will make prolapse a thing of the past as soon as they are generally accepted by humanity.

At Whole Woman™, we’ve already discovered what we need to know to prevent and reverse the symptoms of prolapse and incontinence – something that may take established medical science another generation to acknowledge.

At the center of our understanding of human anatomy is the truth that our pelvis is in the exact same anatomical position as those of quadrupeds. This means that our pelvis is already tilted forward like that of a cat Figure 1 so that the oft quoted concept of “anterior tilt” becomes meaningless. No matter how much you curve your lumbar spine, it is very difficult to move your iliac blades (hipbones) further “forward” from their already forward-oriented position.

To clarify this point, look at these three views of the mammalian pelvis Figure 2. The top is a drawing of a chimpanzee pelvis, the middle a proto-human pelvis, and the bottom a human pelvis. All are in the correct anatomic position for both quadrupedal and bipedal walking. Notice that the iliac blades have greatly expanded in the proto-human and human, providing lateral support for the gluteal muscles. The gluteals are some of our most important “core” muscles.

Now look at side views of these same three examplesFigure 3. See how the iliac blades are in the same relationship to other structures, but have shortened, widened and become much more massive in front (best visualized in the previous illustration.) Here is another view of the mammalian pelvis, which is always tilted forward Figure 4.

And where do the cat and chimpanzee carry their pelvic organs? Directly behind their lower abdominal wall and over their pelvic floor, which are the pubic bones that come together underneath them like straps of a saddle. The challenge of the human female was to keep her pelvic organs positioned in just the same way while standing upright. This only became possible by way of a very pronounced lumbar-sacral curvature, which allowed the bottom half of the human body to remain horizontal while the top half became vertical. The rounded lower belly of Avalokitesvara Figure 5 reveals the subtle, vital importance of our relaxed true core.

It is a profound truth that we do not know our most basic nature. And into that evolutionary gap have rushed pelvic reconstructive surgeons with their profoundly ignorant views of both female anatomy and pelvic organ prolapse Figure 6.

Scientific medicine has positioned itself as having all the answers. Yet, just because the system has positioned itself that way doesn’t mean it actually has the right answers. Slowly, but surely, the world will come to realize that the system is wrong. Until that time the support and information we need can only be provided by other women who, by discovering their own true nature, have come to the same conclusions.