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Pregnancy can appear smooth when everything, or nearly everything goes according to plan--basically. But if you're part of the group of people for which it has not gone smoothly, in pursuit of what may have gone wrong, you find that this process is actually ridiculously complicated.

One opportunity to appreciate this comes with IVF when doctors efforts to manage more aspects of this process can lead to insights about how it works.

Today's guest talks about a theory that might explain a constellation of infertility, problems from repeated implantation, failure to preeclampsia, and even endometriosis.