Dr. Stacy Sims

high peak estrogen and then some women are really sensitive to these hormonal changes and they feel that drop so that ovulation day may not always be your very best feeling day which makes women feel like it should be and like something's wrong with them on a side note we did um

Middle schmertz.

Yes, exactly.

Middle schmertz.

Middle schmertz.

We had, so you can feel the follicle rupturing and that's called middle schmertz.

So it's German for in the middle because it tends to happen in the middle of your cycle when you ovulate.

It's a pain.

It's just a pain.

It's like a cyst bursting inside your body.

I think learning to listen to your body and the signals that it's giving you across the stages of your life, that's really key to so many of the questions that we're talking about because you want to understand your own response.

And where many women are falling short is that

They've been suppressing their cycles.

They don't know about it.

And they were not taught all of these different changes that are perfectly normal.

And so it's very hard to then hear a social media post that says, only do this in the follicular phase and don't ever do cardio in the luteal phase.

And you get a lot of mixed messages when, in fact, there's no absolutes.

No.

Assuming you have a regular menstrual cycle.

Right.