Women Lose 90-percent Of Their Eggs By Age 30

Here's a 30toMidnight public service message from The Washington Post: A study from the University of St. Andrews and Edinburgh University, published last month by PLoS ONE, tracked the human ovarian reserve -- or a woman's potential number of eggs -- from conception through menopause. Using a mathematical model and data from 325 women, the researchers found that the average woman is born with around 300,000 eggs and steadily loses them as she ages, with just 12 percent of those eggs remaining at the age of 30, and only 3 percent left by 40.

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Comments

[karina]

awesome.
thanks. feeling excellent about the aging process now ...

[Sara Pepitone]

people need to talk about these things! this is the best line of the article: "If you're going to be on the cover of People, you need to be honest and say you're using donor eggs, because other women look at that and say, 'I can wait till I'm 50, 51,' and they are sadly mistaken."

[karina]

i know, i know. you're totally right. i guess it would help if i at least had the prospect of a date in my future ...

next time we're on bar safari, i think i gotta work it ...