Pregnancy sickness and hyperemesis breakthrough with Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS

In this episode I discuss with Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly
all things pregnancy sickness and Hyperemesis. 

Just a few months ago the scientific evidence was published
highlighting what causes pregnancy sickness and hyperemesis. This
breakthrough discovery came from the work of Prof Sir O’Rahilly,
his team and the team from Dr Marlena S. Fejzo in the US.

This ground breaking work gives hope to thousands of women
globally who suffer terribly throughout their pregnancy with
extreme nausea and sickness. 


I discuss what it is that causing this to happen during
pregnancy. 

Why our human bodies could be making this hormone and what
it’s use would possibly be for.  

And what the future holds for a cure, how Prof O’Rahilly and
his team are working collaboratively with the pregnancy sickness
support, a UK charity, women who have and are currently suffering
from hyperemesis,  and a team of obstetric specialists to
find the answer to help stop this condition. 



Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, is Co-Director of the
Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) and Director of the MRC
Metabolic Diseases Unit which is part of the broader University
of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories which he also
directs.  On the wider Cambridge Biomedical Campus, he is
Scientific Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and
Head of the University Department of Clinical Biochemistry.


He was elected FRS in 2003, to the National Academy of Sciences,
USA in 2011, has received five honorary doctorates and numerous
scientific awards. 


In 2013 he was made Knight Bachelor & for services to medical
research.


His main research area is the aetiology and pathophysiology of
human metabolic and endocrine disease and how such information
might be used to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of
these diseases.

LINKS:
Pregnancy Sickness Support UK 
Dr Marlena S. Fejzo HER Foundation
GD15 linked to maternal risk of nausea and vomiting during
pregnancy - Scientific paper


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