The Three Best Friends: Reviewing the Relationship Between the Ovarian Theca, Granulosa and Lutein Cells

Course overview

If asked, most practitioners understand the basics regarding sex hormone production or report hormones are made in the ovaries. However, this only scratches the surface. Understanding female sex hormones requires a deep understanding of the dynamic dance between the brain, theca, granulosa, and lutein cells of the ovary. The female body, when of cycling age, centers just about everything around her potential to become pregnant whether she wants to or not. Women are born with about 2 million follicles on her ovaries and by puberty, have 300,000-400,000 that she will use to create the hormones testosterone, DHEA, androstenedione, estrone, estradiol and progesterone. While signaling starts in the brain, the health and careful orchestration of communication between the follicular cells will influence or determine her health outcomes as it relates to gynecological health, mood health, heart health, immune health, musculoskeletal health, nervous system health, cancer risk and more. This webinar will serve to provide practitioners with the more complex anatomy and physiology of the ovaries and sex hormone production so that they can truly address female complaints from the teenage years through menopause.