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Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 499. I'm excited to share today's episode with you.

In today's episode, I'm going to be talking all about ovulation predictor strips.

I'm going to be sharing when I think they can be extremely useful, when they may not be that useful,

and the best way really for you to identify your fertile window

when you're trying to conceive.

So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump right in.

So I wanted to start with just the basic question of what are ovulation strips or they're often called ovulation predictor kits or ovulation test strips or LH strips.

So what are they and what do they do?

So ovulation strips, they test for lutinizing hormone, also referred to as LH.

Now that's a hormone that we produce

as we approach ovulation. So in the menstrual cycle, after your period is finished, your follicles

start to develop, and as the eggs in the follicles start to develop, they start to produce

estrogen. And the closer you get to ovulation, the more estrogen you're producing.

And once your estrogen hits a certain threshold,

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