Episode 065: The Nervous System-Ovary Link

Welcome back to The Brilliant Fertility Podcast! It’s been a minute, and wow—life has been a lot lately. Between finishing our new building, trips, and my kids’ soccer schedule, my nervous system has been flooded. And that’s exactly what inspired this episode: exploring how the nervous system directly affects ovarian health and fertility.

In this episode, I dive into a brand-new study from UCSF published in Science, revealing how the nervous system communicates with the ovaries—and what that means for stress, ovulation, and egg quality. You’ll learn how your emotional and physical wellbeing truly shapes your fertility potential.

5 Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System

Study Summary

Science Study

Journal Prompts:

1. What are 3 things you are grateful for today and why?
2. What is your current relationship to stress? How are you aware of stress in your mind and body?
3. What resources, people, or places feel most supportive to you? What does that support look like and feel like?

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Groundbreaking Study on the Nervous System–Ovary Connection: Discover how researchers identified glial cells and sympathetic nerve endings inside the ovary, showing a direct link between stress and ovarian function.

✨ Why Stress Impacts Ovulation: Learn how chronic stress hormones and “fight-or-flight” responses can suppress ovulation, alter egg maturation, and affect fertility outcomes.

✨ Understanding Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic Balance: I break down how your body shifts between “fight or flight” and “rest, digest, and heal”—and why the latter is where conception thrives.

✨ Real-Life Nervous System Tools for Fertility Support: I share my favorite nervous system regulation practices—like journaling, tapping (EFT), and somatic awareness—to calm your body and support hormonal balance.

✨ Why Emotional Safety Matters in Fertility: We talk about how trauma, perfectionism, and people-pleasing can keep your body stuck in stress mode, and how creating a sense of safety can unlock your fertility flow.

This episode is a beautiful reminder that fertility is not just about hormones—it’s about the whole body, mind, and nervous system working in harmony.

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