*I don't want to start each of my sentence with 'according to her', so I am just going to omit that, but whatever I am going to say is what Joanna's teacher told.
(According to her) This is a new disease, as in one that has become more prevalent of late. It is because, previously, people did not use contraceptives and tend to get pregnant more often. This means, after puberty, a girl/lady menstruates for a few years, gets married and then goes through a cycle of pregnant-deliver-rest few months-pregnant. This is what the life cycle of the female gender is supposed to be like (I oppose this statement, but, as I said, this is what the teacher said).
Nowadays, ladies do not want to have that many children, and so use contraceptives and as a result, they menstruate more than the ladies of olden times. One of the proposed theory of how endometriosis develops is that, during menstruation, some amount of tissue flows in the opposite direction, which means they flow from the uterus into the Fallopian tubes and exit into the pelvic/abdominal cavity. The tissues then get implanted there and eventually cause problems.
What's the conclusion from this? Ladies should have more kids to prevent endometriosis (which is quite a serious disease, actually). But then, there's a catch. Another disease, adenomyosis, which is the penetration of the superficial layer of the uterus into deeper layers, is mostly found in multiparous women. Adenomyosis is equally as serious a disease as endometriosis.
I guess the conclusion is a little bit changed right now. You have a choice. You can have more children and decrease the risk of endometriosis or have less children and decrease the risk of adenomyosis.
Looks like in the end, this whole post doesn't really have a point, but I just thought it was an interesting piece of information.
In case you are interested to know about these 2 diseases, here are the Wiki links:
Endometriosis
Adenomyosis
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