by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | May 12, 2026 | Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS
If you have spent years trying to get a PCOS diagnosis — or years being told your symptoms were normal, your cycles were just irregular, your weight was the problem — the news that the condition is being renamed may land differently than it does for anyone who...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Feb 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Endometriosis, Guides, Implantation, IUI, IVF, Low AMH, Male Factor Infertility, Microbiome, Miscarriage, Nutrition, Ovulation, PCOS, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
Lifestyle factors affecting egg and sperm quality shape the environment in which eggs mature, sperm develop, implantation occurs, and early pregnancy is supported. Lifestyle factors influence hormonal signalling, oxidative stress, immune load, and how effectively the...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Endometriosis, Guides, IVF, Low AMH, Male Factor Infertility, Miscarriage, Nutrition, Ovulation, PCOS, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
Food serves two biological purposes.It provides fuel — the energy required to keep the body functioning.And it provides nourishment — the physical materials the body uses to build hormones, mature eggs, support ovulation, prepare the uterine lining, and sustain early...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS
Ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) are often presented as a reliable way to identify fertile days. For some people, they work as expected. For many others — particularly those with PCOS — they create more confusion than clarity. If you’ve used OPKs consistently,...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Hormones, Low AMH, PCOS
Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is often presented as a simple fertility marker: higher is better, lower is worse. For many people, being told they have “high AMH” sounds reassuring — even promising.But AMH does not measure fertility in the way it is often assumed to. It...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS, Unexplained Infertility
Many people assume that if a period arrives regularly, ovulation must be happening. It’s a reasonable assumption — and a very common one. But physiologically, bleeding and ovulation are not the same event.An anovulatory cycle is a cycle where bleeding occurs, but...
