Tune-up your overworked ovaries
Imagine, your job is to coordinate and put up a big corporate event every month, 12 months in a row. No breaks, no holidays, no sick days, no vacation days. Even worse, you have no assistance, no team to rely on, and you have been doing it for at least 30-long years. Talk about burnout!
This is what your ovaries do their entire lives. Every single month, your ovaries orchestrate a big event no matter what new challenges and variable situations they face on a daily basis, and that big event is ovulation. It’s inevitable that by perimenopause, the ovaries are tiring out.
They are still active, but more prone to hiccups and mistakes. Their egg-release schedule may be less predictable, and their production of estrogen and progesterone may be less precise and unsynchronized. The overworked ovaries are the reasons for irregular cycles, spotting, cyst formations, heavy bleeding, migraines, hotflashes, etc.
The lifetime of ovaries can be extended
Given our busy and high-strung lifestyle, if not tended to, the overworked ovaries could senesce quickly and retire early, resulting in early menopause. Unsupported overworked ovaries equate to silent aging. For a premenopausal and perimenopausal woman, the health of her ovaries is the determinant of her health and vitality.
If we are able to support to the ovaries and nourish its environment (the body), we would be able to slow down aging, not just on the internal level, but also the superficial level because we know that a perfectly choreographed waltz between estrogen and progesterone, which are largely made by the ovaries, is the reason for skin-elasticity, mental sharpness, stress-resilience, easily manageable weight, and lower chance of hormone-sensitive pathologies and cancers.
Initial signs of overworked ovaries in premenopausal and perimenopausal women
Changes in menstrual bleeding
If you notice that the amount of your menstrual bleeding alternates between light and heavy from one month to the next, chances are that your ovaries are not producing progesterone consistently.
Progesterone is required to mitigate the growth of the endometrium (the tissue that later sheds when you get your period), making sure that it doesn’t overgrow. When there’s not enough progesterone in a cycle or that the progesterone was produced too late, your endometrium ends up growing thicker than it should be, giving you a picture of estrogen dominance.
Then, when you get your period at the end of that cycle, it would be heavier because there’s more endometrium tissue to be shed. The cause of progesterone deficiency is attributable to overworked ovaries.
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