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If someone's menstrual cycle is irregular, should they be concerned? >> Yes. Yes. Yes.
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>> How irregular? What's like if I'm not getting my menstrual cycle?
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>> Absolutely not good. You should go see a doctor. If your cycle is irregular, if
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the calendar trick, you're putting your finger and it's nowhere near when your
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cycle's coming. Or I have women who say, "Oh, there's no way I could predict it."
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Or, "I know it will come, but it'll come every four to six weeks." Your body's
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meant to work like clockwork when it comes to your your hormones and your menstrual cycle. And yes, you can always
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have one abnormal month, always. But when you consistently are having irregularity, that is a sign that
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something else is going on. It's one of the biggest red flags that we have for
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early hormonal health or systemic problems. But to your earlier point, Stephen, we have a generation of women
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on contraceptive options who are not tracking their cycles. We have women who are not taught how to track their
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cycles. They don't know when ovulation occurs. They don't know how long their
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ludal phase is. If I say the first sign of ovulatory dysfunction or having a problem with your cycle is a short ludal
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phase, well, you only know that if you're tracking when ovulation occurs because otherwise you could still have a
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regular cycle, but you don't know that something's abnormal. >> And that lutial phase again is the last
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the last half of your your cycle. Exactly.