Ways to Keep Your Ovaries and Eggs Youthful
Just as the body ages with age, so do the ovaries and eggs. So you should take care to maintain a regular routine in your daily life to keep your ovaries rejuvenated. When do women start to have eggs? Women are born with primordial follicles (cells that produce eggs) that are part of the ovaries, and most of these follicles die before they mature. A woman is born with about 2 million primordial follicles, but by the time she has her first menstrual period, only 200,000 to 300,000 follicles are left. Since then, the number of primordial follicles decreases by a few hundred each month, and by the age of 45, there are only a few thousand left. Only about 500 eggs…
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