Dr. Lucky Sekhon

We all know that that's not as effective as using birth control because we don't always get it right when we're tracking our cycle.

And anyone who's had a period knows that you can have a period that's thrown off here or there.

They can be.

What you're basically doing is you're peeing on a stick.

And it's picking up LH in the urine.

LH is one of the signals I was talking about from the brain.

You have follicle-stimulating hormone, which starts sending signals to the ovary to mature and ovulate an egg.

And LH is the actual ovulation signal.

So as it detects that you have a mature egg that's ready to ovulate, it will send out a stronger signal.

And that will very quickly end up in your urine.

So when you start seeing that, if you start approaching mid-cycle, you're like, okay, I normally have a 28-day cycle.

So maybe on day nine or day 10, I start peeing on these sticks.

I want to see when that signal lights up.

And there's many different ways that that shows up depending on the brand you're using.

But that gives you about a one to two-day window to say this is the key time to be trying.

Absolutely.

And I think it's societal conditioning.

It's how we were raised.

For me, you know, looking at my mom and all the women in my household, it's like that's what you see, and it's learned behavior.

I think also it's kind of implied because we're carrying the pregnancy most of the time, right?