Regular Ovulation Is Crucial To Women's Health, Even If You Have No Plans Of Getting Pregnant Anytime Soon
Most women couldn't care less whether they ovulate unless they're trying to get pregnant. But 3 experts explain to us why ovulation is actually the "main event" of your hormonal cycle and contributes to your overall health by boosting immunity, improving mental health, developing muscle, sleeping well, and more.
After 10 years of being on hormonal birth control, Victoria and her husband decided to try for a baby. But for the next year of her life, she didn’t have any ovulation symptoms—no discharge or basal body temperature changes, no breast soreness or tenderness. Nothing. As a teenager she was never taught about ovulation and its function in the female body, so everything she learned was from a simple Google search. For many months she was unsure whether she was even ovulating at all. It’s estimated that about 25% of female infertility cases in the United States are caused by anovulation, which is when an egg doesn’t release from your ovary at all during the appropriate part of your cycle.