pill, it has a fake amount of estrogen and a fake amount of progestin in it so high that it tricks your body into not ovulating. So, when you have so much hormone around, your body says, "Oh, I don't need to make my own cuz there's plenty around." And so, the ovaries shut down. So, your ovaries are no longer making their own hormones because this happens to men, too. When you take high
there's a a follicle in your ovary which has an egg, right? It's going to pop out an egg. Ovulation is when the egg pops out. So, you get this big surge of estrogen and then when the egg pops out of the ovary, right? That's what's going to make a baby if it gets fertilized, there is a shell of the egg, right? The egg has a
She once actually drove out to the Weebies campus and showed up at his office door. 'I'm ovulating right now,' she said. 'Like, now.' Rishi had found them a nap room, disobeying the strict single occupant limit.
And it's a miscommunication between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland and the ovary. And so you don't end up ovulating or menstruating. So I asked her, now what, now, that we know what we do, after we had our doctor's visit?
If I now tell you here, please point to the sugar, please point to the eggs, you can't. When women are in the maximum fertile stage of their menstrual cycle-- when they're ovulating-- they dress more sexily.
After three months of trying and failing, the sex could no longer be casual. She began taking her temperature, tracking her ovulation. Rishi had been on board with this.
So you've known someone who has been-- received a ton of food, a ton of wine, and then in, "China Rich Girlfriend," Rachel gets like basically ransacked into doing a procedure to try and see if she's pregnant or she's ovulating. Did that happen in your life?
You can-- we sign, we send postcards to clinics throughout the year. But I don't. I stop ovulation from happening, preventing fertilization and pregnancy.
not zero. It's about 50, okay? So, when we talk about numbers, if you get your your hormones checked, if they're at their low it's like 50, but when you ovulate, your estrogen may be 150, 200, 300. And then when you're pregnant, your estrogen may be as high as 3,000 or higher, right? It's very many thousands.
kind of a thing. Now, testosterone's not even on this graph that everybody gets taught of estrogen then progesterone, but we do know testosterone is pretty stable through the cycle, although we do believe it peaks during ovulation which makes sense cuz you want to have a baby, right? So, evolution says, "Okay, you need to be horny around the time that you are going to ovulate." And so, your
If I now tell you here, please point to the sugar, please point to the eggs, you can't. And the idea was to look at how women dress as a function of where they are in their ovulatory cycle.
stable through the cycle, although we do believe it peaks during ovulation which makes sense cuz you want to have a baby, right? So, evolution says, "Okay, you need to be horny around the time that you are going to ovulate." And so, your testosterone starts to go up. Now, it's really important cuz you're probably not having a conversation with your nieces about their menstrual cycles, but it's a
If I now tell you here, please point to the sugar, please point to the eggs, you can't. They beautify more. Now that doesn't mean, by the way, that they look at an ovulation chart and say, oh geez, OK, there's ovulation, let me dress with shorter skirt.
And now, going to our reproductive organs-- and this is a follicular genesis, meaning the development of our eggs within our body. Well, we think about it-- oftentimes, we think that when we ovulate per cycle, that's it. It's that one little cycle, maybe a 14-day window depending on your menstrual cycle.
near trying to conceive, being fertility aware, like know about your periods, your menstrual cycles. I mean, a lot of people don't even know when they menstruate, when they ovulate. So check that out.
And I have not done any of that. And to have 60 pounds come off of my body, to have my skin clear up, to be able to be having a period and ovulating normally for over 12 years now, it's really remarkable.