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Fertility, Women's Health, Period Health Brittany Schamerhorn 3/26/21 Fertility, Women's Health, Period Health Brittany Schamerhorn 3/26/21

What is the deal with Ovulation?

How to tell you ovulated and why it matters – even if you are not trying to get pregnant.

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You’ve landed in the right place if you’re done feeling dismissed and ready for real answers.

Dr. Brittany Schamerhorn, ND offers evidence-based, whole-person care for women navigating perimenopause, hormone shifts, stress, and metabolism changes — with plans that actually work in real life.

Let’s Make Hormone Health Make Sense.

Perimenopause is often framed as an estrogen deficiency story.

In reality, it usually begins with progesterone instability.

When ovulation becomes inconsistent, progesterone production drops. That alters the ratio between estrogen and progesterone,

Iron deficiency is one of the most under-recognized patterns I see in women. Not dramatic. Not alarming. Just persistent enough to chip away at energy, mood, and resilience.

Too often, “normal” labs close the conversation before it shou

In early perimenopause, ovulation is the first thing to become unreliable.

And when ovulation becomes inconsistent, progesterone drops first.

That shift alone can change everything.
Progesterone helps modulate GABA activity in the brain. It support

Fatigue is one of the most dismissed symptoms in women’s health.

It gets labeled as busy. Aging. Stress. Motherhood.

But exhaustion is rarely random.

When I hear “I’m just so tired,” I don’t think personality.

I thin

Midlife care requires precision.

Yes, both birth control and HRT involve hormones. That’s where the similarity ends.
One is designed to override the ovarian cycle.
The other is designed to support a changing endocrine system.

Those are fundam

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