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![Want to avoid short cycles, luteal phase deficiency, delayed ovulation, and early miscarriage?
A commonly over-looked piece of the fertility puzzle that I see is women ignoring stress...
In a recent study, women whose saliva had high levels of alpha-amylase, an enzyme that marks stress, took 29% longer to get pregnant compared to those who had less.
What happens when you're a chronic stress ball your body responds in a few ways:
Glucocorticoids such as adrenaline and cortisol are released in response to stress.
As a result, this suppresses Leutenizing Hormone (LH), which in turn causes the corpus luteum to not develop properly.
When this happens, adequate progesterone is not made which may cause short cycles / short luteal phase, early miscarriage, and delayed ovulation.
Remember, we need an adequate luteal phase length for implantation.
Timing is important for implantation. Once embryo is fertilized, it takes 7 days after ovulation to float through the fallopian tube to get to the uterus and implant.
If you have a short luteal phase, you shrink the window where implantation can occur. So you need a long enough luteal phase to support implantation - and to have a long enough luteal phase we need adequate progesterone.
And what is progesterone's enemy? Stress.
So I know that was a mouthful, but bottom line: Stress is KEY 🔑 for fertility.
I'm curious, what's the biggest stressor in your life right now? [As if we all don't have a million of them now...]
PS I'm devoting an entire week on stress, burnout and mindfulness in my upcoming group coaching. DM me your email if you'd like to be added to the waitlist! We start Sep 1!
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