21/08/2026
Being fertile AF is not just about having babies. I know that sounds backwards because the word fertility gets used like its only relevant once youre standing in the pregnancy test aisle deciding if this is the year, but ovulating regularly every month is actually your body running a full systems check on your hormones, your thyroid, your stress load and your metabolic health, all at once, whether you ever want kids or not.
A cycle that shows up on time every month means your brain and your ovaries and your adrenals are all talking to each other properly, and a cycle that goes missing or gets weird for months at a time is usually your body waving a flag about something else going on, not just a reproductive issue sitting off in its own little corner.
And this is not some minor detail either, ovulation is the main way your body makes progesterone, which is doing quiet work on your sleep and your mood, and estrogen from regular ovulation is also protecting your bone density long before you will ever notice it matters, which is why athletes and women who lose their periods from overtraining or undereating can end up with bone loss in their twenties that does not always come back once their cycle does.
So if you have been treating your period as background noise until the day you decide to try for a baby, I would gently suggest flipping that, because by the time youre trying is a strange time to start paying attention to a system that has been talking to you the whole time.
If you want to start to learn about your cycle, start with ovulation, comment PEAK and Iโll send you a free guide on starting to get to know the juicest part of your cycle. Pun intended if you get it.
