Following on from the interview with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack in Episode 34 last week on using the Fertility Awareness Method, this episode goes into more detail into the importance of cervical mucus (CM). This is a huge component of fertility that is often overlooked and yet is something that can be improved. It is an area that research is still developing in relation to Endometriosis and its relationship to the vaginal microbiome.
In this episode I talk about:
- What CM is
- How CM is created
- What CM looks like and its changes
- Changes to mucus with age
- How endometriosis affects CM
- How to support and improve cervical mucus
- How to use cervical mucus to conceive
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References:
Katz DF, Morales P, Samuels SJ, Overstreet JW. Mechanisms of filtration of morphologically abnormal human sperm by cervical mucus. Fertil Steril. 1990 Sep;54(3):513-6. PMID: 2397794. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2397794/
Grande, G., Vincenzoni, F., Milardi, D. et al. Cervical mucus proteome in endometriosis. Clin Proteom 14, 7 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12014-017-9142-4.
Shahpar Najmabadi, Karen C Schliep, Sara E Simonsen, Christina A Porucznik, Marlene J Egger, Joseph B Stanford, Cervical mucus patterns and the fertile window in women without known subfertility: a pooled analysis of three cohorts, Human Reproduction, Volume 36, Issue 7, July 2021, Pages 1784–1795, https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deab049
Kanoko Akiyama, Keisuke Nishioka, Khaleque N. Khan, Yukiko Tanaka, Taisuke Mori, Takaaki Nakaya, Jo Kitawaki (2019). Molecular detection of microbial colonization in cervical mucus of women with and without endometriosis. American Journal of Reproduction Immunology, Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 13147 https://doi.org/10.1111/aji.13147
Chertoff, J. (2019). What is cervical mucus. Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/cervical-mucus#stages
Villines, Z. (2020). What to know about cervical mucus and fertile discharge. Medical News Today. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323503
The Dietologist (2020). 6 Foods to Improve Your Cervical Mucus https://thedietologist.com.au/foods-to-improve-cervical-mucus/
Gaskins, A. J., & Chavarro, J. E. (2018). Diet and fertility: a review. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 218(4), 379–389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2017.08.010
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- Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Optimistic Future
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