The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So, you actually don't make any progesterone really in that first half of your cycle. And then after ovulation, we call the second half the ludial phase, which just means, you know, sort of that's when progesterone is around. And so you get this surge of progesterone when there is no fertilization that that shell of the egg sort of evaporates and then you lose your progesterone and it is that withdrawal of progesterone that causes the uterine lining to shed.
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The second you take it off, it's the withdrawal of progesterone that causes the lining to shed. Right. And then we call that day one.