Dr. Lucky Sekhon

But in reality, there's this process that's kind of magical when you think about it that's happening in our ovaries all the time, even before we start ovulating and getting periods.

And once we hit puberty, you're all you are born with all the eggs that you're ever going to have.

That's about one to two million.

And throughout the course of your life, you lose a bunch of eggs along the way.

That's part of our natural biology.

And by the time we get into menopause, our early 50s, we have less than 1,000 eggs, right?

So at any given time point, if I was to do an ultrasound on someone with ovaries, I'm not seeing millions of eggs or hundreds of thousands of eggs.

I'm seeing a small subset, an easy to count number.

And that's because every month, every cycle, there are waves of recruitment of a very limited subset of the total number of eggs that you have.

They trickle to the surface.

And people don't even know this is happening.

And then their brain sends a signal to the ovary.

And like a lottery, one of those eggs is chosen, not based on merit.

And that's the one that gets to ovulate.

What that means is it matures.

And then it gets released into the fallopian tube on one side or the other.

Wow.

And it doesn't alternate.

It's so random.

You could ovulate on the right for five months in a row, and then it could switch.