I don’t even need the full study, I’m already convinced
Lost-Klaus on
With a globally shrinking population (which you can decide if it is good or bad) stuff like this will become more frequent for sure.
hlloyge on
Extend to what, her 60’s?
IanAlvord on
So many people have to wait to have children for the sake of finances. Many women feel that they have to choose between a career and being a mother.
This could help solve these problems.
PurifiedUnity on
I’d also want to fund it
ThatsSoWitty on
I support this as a man just watching my wife go through having her period and knowing my daughters will inevitably be going through this in a few years. This is less pain and less overall discomfort. Why would you not support this? Hell, I’ll donate personally
ParkingCan5397 on
The chances of a child having genetic disorders are already pretty worrying at age 35+. Extending fertility doesnt really make sense
Daimoth on
As long as it doesn’t like… compress the effects of several periods into one. That’s how you get Carrie.
_fluffy_raptor on
Would this mean that each phase of the cycle lasts three times as long?
Because as someone whose PMS makes it feel like the sky is falling: No thank you.
LaughR01331 on
I’m just worried about the blood loss from a mega period assuming they’re not compressed
potentatewags on
Those eggs are still aging. Yeah, they might stay in the woman longer, but unless you can stop the eggs from aging it does nothing for the spike on genetic defects that crop up in the 30s and really spike in the 40s.
corinini on
Women have 1-2 million eggs at birth. Women generally lose about 1000 eggs a month. The vast majority of those are not lost during menstruation.
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New-Sink8421 on
How tf is this a meme
KeimeiWins on
This isn’t how it works though. When you’re on birth control, you don’t ovulate, so you never “drop” an egg. They still age and are lost over time regardless.
Hephaestus_God on
Until you have 60-70 year olds getting pregnant and dying during childbirth due to extending menstrual persons by so long.
If it works that’s neat science wise, but as a species it’s impractical. Evolution is supreme for various reasons, and being the way we are is one of them.
You also have to consider taking care of the child at later ages. If you do keep the kid, the odds you live to their 18th birthday are already low. Anything past is a blessing.
They won’t be able to take care you in old age given they are a child and elderly care is very hard to go through for adults, let alone children, even more so if you have a disease like Alzheimer’s.
Slumunistmanifisto on
Yeah there was a birth control that reduced your periods….that’s how we didn’t know my kid was on the way until way late.
Haunt_Fox on
Yeah, but then you don’t get the joy of never having the damn things again until you’re too old to enjoy it.
Miss_Mello_Kitty on
Isn’t there already a type of birth control that does this tho, what would the difference be?
VampArcher on
Doesn’t having kids later correlate to more birth defects and complications? As you age, DNA damage accumulates and this won’t stop that, even if it were possible.
Maybe there’s an evolutionary reason 75 year olds can’t get pregnant, because it risks introducing more and more harmful defective genes to the gene pool which can then be passed on. Imagine developing a terminal disease like ALS and passing the defective genes to your baby. Maybe just adopt.
Dense-Experience6033 on
There’s already a medication to do this though so what’s the big deal?
sadpancak on
Big tampon is about to make a scientist disappear
cozidgaf on
Uhh.. the age of the eggs are not determined by when or how often you get your periods. Women are born with all the eggs they ever produce / mature. And the issue with late pregnancy is age and quality of the eggs. Not sure how this addresses that.
Telemere125 on
Ok, so there’s value here that has nothing to do with “extending fertility”. Women are born with 1-2 million eggs and only have about 450-500 menstrual cycles in her entire life and maybe lose 1000 eggs each time. You stop being fertile because of menopause, not because you run out of eggs.
Betruul on
Immagine how nuclear those pms’s might be D:
iKnowRobbie on
This clearly won’t work. The body signals around 40 to stop production and the signaling protiens aren’t related to egg quantity, hell, they don’t even signal from the ovaries! Not sure what this woman thinks, but many birth control types stop ovulation and every 3 months there is a break. This has been done for about 30 years now (depo provera) and those women aren’t missing perimenopause.
EntraptaIvy on
Menopause is not caused by running out of eggs, but due to a resistance to Luteinizing hormone preventing ovulation. Women do not run out of eggs!
mattjouff on
Can’t you sort of do that already by timing the pill intake?
Dark_Galaxyy on
isn’t that just birth control?
Corgibutz77 on
The issue isn’t that we “run out of eggs” the issue is that they get old. This would raise the rate of birth defects since old eggs are more prone to being defective. Also, who tf wants to have kids when they are over 45?
burn3edoutburn3r on
How about you find a way to let me dump all my eggs at once and be done with this shit??
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I don’t even need the full study, I’m already convinced
With a globally shrinking population (which you can decide if it is good or bad) stuff like this will become more frequent for sure.
Extend to what, her 60’s?
So many people have to wait to have children for the sake of finances. Many women feel that they have to choose between a career and being a mother.
This could help solve these problems.
I’d also want to fund it
I support this as a man just watching my wife go through having her period and knowing my daughters will inevitably be going through this in a few years. This is less pain and less overall discomfort. Why would you not support this? Hell, I’ll donate personally
The chances of a child having genetic disorders are already pretty worrying at age 35+. Extending fertility doesnt really make sense
As long as it doesn’t like… compress the effects of several periods into one. That’s how you get Carrie.
Would this mean that each phase of the cycle lasts three times as long?
Because as someone whose PMS makes it feel like the sky is falling: No thank you.
I’m just worried about the blood loss from a mega period assuming they’re not compressed
Those eggs are still aging. Yeah, they might stay in the woman longer, but unless you can stop the eggs from aging it does nothing for the spike on genetic defects that crop up in the 30s and really spike in the 40s.
Women have 1-2 million eggs at birth. Women generally lose about 1000 eggs a month. The vast majority of those are not lost during menstruation.
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How tf is this a meme
This isn’t how it works though. When you’re on birth control, you don’t ovulate, so you never “drop” an egg. They still age and are lost over time regardless.
Until you have 60-70 year olds getting pregnant and dying during childbirth due to extending menstrual persons by so long.
If it works that’s neat science wise, but as a species it’s impractical. Evolution is supreme for various reasons, and being the way we are is one of them.
You also have to consider taking care of the child at later ages. If you do keep the kid, the odds you live to their 18th birthday are already low. Anything past is a blessing.
They won’t be able to take care you in old age given they are a child and elderly care is very hard to go through for adults, let alone children, even more so if you have a disease like Alzheimer’s.
Yeah there was a birth control that reduced your periods….that’s how we didn’t know my kid was on the way until way late.
Yeah, but then you don’t get the joy of never having the damn things again until you’re too old to enjoy it.
Isn’t there already a type of birth control that does this tho, what would the difference be?
Doesn’t having kids later correlate to more birth defects and complications? As you age, DNA damage accumulates and this won’t stop that, even if it were possible.
Maybe there’s an evolutionary reason 75 year olds can’t get pregnant, because it risks introducing more and more harmful defective genes to the gene pool which can then be passed on. Imagine developing a terminal disease like ALS and passing the defective genes to your baby. Maybe just adopt.
There’s already a medication to do this though so what’s the big deal?
Big tampon is about to make a scientist disappear
Uhh.. the age of the eggs are not determined by when or how often you get your periods. Women are born with all the eggs they ever produce / mature. And the issue with late pregnancy is age and quality of the eggs. Not sure how this addresses that.
Ok, so there’s value here that has nothing to do with “extending fertility”. Women are born with 1-2 million eggs and only have about 450-500 menstrual cycles in her entire life and maybe lose 1000 eggs each time. You stop being fertile because of menopause, not because you run out of eggs.
Immagine how nuclear those pms’s might be D:
This clearly won’t work. The body signals around 40 to stop production and the signaling protiens aren’t related to egg quantity, hell, they don’t even signal from the ovaries! Not sure what this woman thinks, but many birth control types stop ovulation and every 3 months there is a break. This has been done for about 30 years now (depo provera) and those women aren’t missing perimenopause.
Menopause is not caused by running out of eggs, but due to a resistance to Luteinizing hormone preventing ovulation. Women do not run out of eggs!
Can’t you sort of do that already by timing the pill intake?
isn’t that just birth control?
The issue isn’t that we “run out of eggs” the issue is that they get old. This would raise the rate of birth defects since old eggs are more prone to being defective. Also, who tf wants to have kids when they are over 45?
How about you find a way to let me dump all my eggs at once and be done with this shit??