What if resolving infertility related to a dysfunctional pituitary gland were as simple as aligning the skull bones?

Imagine a butterfly-shaped bone — the Sphenoid — inside your skull behind your eyes that is tethered at its four corners by muscles at the temples and jaw. Imagine that unbalanced jaw muscle tension pulls the Sphenoid down at one corner, tilting that butterfly-shaped bone like a teeter-totter. The Sella turcica forms a bone “pocket” in the Sphenoid. The anterior and posterior lobes of the Pituitary gland dandle inside the Sella turcica. Therefore if the entire Sphenoid tilts, so will the two lobes of the Pituitary gland. If the tilt is significant, the result would be that the anterior or posterior lobe is pressed by gravity against bone rather than dangling freely on its stalk.

I asked myself, “Could pressure on the Pituitary impair the gland’s ability to produce hormones crucial to fertility?”

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