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How Light Exposure Affects Egg Quality and Fertility
If you've been trying to improve your egg quality, you've probably heard me talk about sleep. Sleep is one of the foundations I come back to again and again because it affects blood sugar, inflammation, mitochondrial health, hormone signaling, nervous system regulation, and the environment your eggs are developing in. But there's another piece of sleep and fertility that gets far less attention: light and darkness.
Your ovaries have a circadian clock, and that clock is heavily influenced by light exposure. Bright lights at night, screens in bed, and light coming through your bedroom window…
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