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Episode 13: Low Progesterone? It's Pointing at Something That Happened Months Ago.
You got your labs back and your progesterone is low. Maybe you got a prescription, maybe you got "that happens sometimes," maybe you got a flagged number in a portal with no explanation. In this episode I go upstream.
Progesterone is the result of ovulation, and ovulation is the result of a follicle that was developing for about 90 days before that. I cover why a positive ovulation test doesn't tell you how good the ovulation was, why a day-21 progesterone test can give you a misleading number, and the three things I look at first: blood sugar, a full thyroid panel (not just TSH), and stress…
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