If you are waking up soaked at night, you are not alone. For women, a night sweat triggers thoughts of menopause but hold up! There is more to night sweats than dropping hormones and this affects people of all ages and genders.
What does AMH mean for my fertility? AMH or ‘Anti-Müllerian Hormone’ is tested clinically as part of a fertility work-up. Levels below normal ‘may’ reflect low ovarian reserve and levels above normal reflect polycystic ovaries. AMH levels peak at age 25 and then slowly decline until menopause.
‘Blood Deficiency’, involves so much more than iron deficiency. There is a team of blood building micro and macro nutrients that includes iron, folic acid, vitamin B12, copper, manganese, vitamin D, vitamin A and protein. Common symptoms can be fatigue, poor memory, difficulty falling sleeping, vivid or disruptive dreams, headache, palpitations, blurred vision, dry eyes, dry skin, paleness, depression, anxiety, dizziness, numbness/tingling of limbs, scanty periods, amenorrhea and infertility. This particularly affects women and children.
Hundreds of thousands of women world-wide use menstrual tracking apps to predict fertile days and to prevent pregnancy. These apps are great for tracking the monthly cycle and have provided valuable data for understanding menstrual cycles in real-world women. But they are not great at predicting fertile days.