#55 PCOS Fertility: Ways to help regulate ovulation and how to identify fertile window with Cory Ruth

<p>Anovulation is common in women with PCOS. This is where an egg does not mature and so is not released from the ovary. Thus ovulation does not occur. This lack of ovulation in turn reduces a woman's ability to conceive because in order to get pregnant you need to ovulate. So in episode 55 of the PCOS Oracle podcast, I had the honour of speaking with Cory Ruth, founder and principal of The Women's Dietitian, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and women's health expert about all things PCOS and fertility. Cory discusses ways to help regulate ovulation and how to identify fertile window.</p> <p>Podcast Sponsors</p> <p>Mira</p> <p>This episode is brought to you by Mira, a company that helps women track their actual hormone levels so they know exactly when their fertile and infertile days are.</p> <p>As a woman with PCOS who has previously suffered from irregular cycles, I know how difficult it can make tracking your cycles.</p> <p>Not only this, some PCOS women have constantly high luteinizing hormone (LH) levels that can be as much three times the normal range. This can in turn lead to false readings when using things like Ovulating Predictor Kits because they might not detect a surge in luteinizing hormone as levels are constantly high. But not with Mira. Mira is an Artificially Intelligent-driven fertility device that has been designed with irregular cycles and PCOS women in mind, so it is able to detect the surge in LH above your high baseline. This is because we are all unique and Mira gathers data about you and tailors it's predictions to you. Whereas OPKs are designed around what is 'average'. Mira will record your actual hormone levels each month and it's complex learning algorithm will predict your fertile days every cycle.</p> <p>The more data Mira gathers about you each month, the smarter it gets and the more accurate it will be at making predictions for your following cycle.</p> <p>So, Mira has successfully taken away the stress and guesswork involved in predicting your fertile and infert