'Hormones seemingly control everything, and I’d started to envision them as little particles floating around my body, carrying banners that said, 'Have a baby!!!'”
Photo: Andrew Ostrovsky/Getty Images/iStockphoto Every so often I become preoccupied with having a baby. With pregnancy, with motherhood, with all things reproduction. Sometimes it seems to align with ovulation, sometimes not. Sometimes it arrives like a storm and leaves just as suddenly. Lately it’s been lingering, a constant simmer that occasionally tips into boiling.
Hormones are critical for most aspects of human function, including physical growth, puberty, hunger, metabolism, sexual function, and reproduction. Also sleep, menstruation, lactation, stress, and mood, among many others. Some well-known hormones include insulin, adrenaline, oxytocin, estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol. The overall hormone-and-gland system is called the endocrine system, and common disorders of the endocrine system include obesity, diabetes, and thyroid diseases.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised, but I was. Given the popularity of companies like KindBody, which offers anti-Müllerian hormone testing, it seemed to me that hormones must have everything to do with fertility — with the urge to conceive as well as the ability. But there is no reliable fertility test; measuring things like AMH or follicle-stimulating hormone are “essentially ineffective,” as Keefe put it, at predicting a woman’s fertility status.
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