We all heard the rumors, the giggly innuendos, the secret anticipation. "Chile, when you hit 30, the light bulb comes on...everything you were confused about in your 20's is clear as day when you hit 30... when you turn 30, you put up with less BS, etc., etc." This is all true, and thank you to the numerous friends and family members who spoke such wisdom unto me.
Whatsonevah..... um, no one prepared me for the days when I would be secretly screaming on the inside, reaching out for stuff that wasn't there, deleting numbers out of my phone and/or just handing my phone to my homegirls to avoid calling someone I shouldn't....all because of the Lute !!!
One of The Girls is a doctor. Over several glasses of wine, sitting in our sweats, sorority tee shirts, hair all over our heads, soap operas in the background and other random noise in the house we call the community center, one of our resident doctors explained why we all of sudden, at the age of 30 become horny little beasts. It's that Lucifer "Luteinizing Hormone" that peaks during ovulation making it hard to stand next to any man with a job and who smells good. Wooooooooooo !!!!
According to Wikipedia: (waa..waa..waaaaaa....waa...waa..waa)
In females, at the time of menstruation, FSH initiates follicular growth, specifically affecting granulosa cells.[5] With the rise in estrogens, LH receptors are also expressed on the maturing follicle that produces an increasing amount of estradiol. Eventually at the time of the maturation of the follicle, the estrogen rise leads via the hypothalamic interface to the “positive feed-back” effect, a release of LH over a 24-48 hour period. This 'LH surge' triggers ovulation hereby not only releasing the egg, but also initiating the conversion of the residual follicle into a corpus luteum that, in turn, produces progesterone to prepare the endometrium for a possible implantation. LH is necessary to maintain luteal function for the first two weeks. In case of a pregnancy luteal function will be further maintained by the action of hCG (a hormone very similar to LH) from the newly established pregnancy. LH supports thecal cells in the ovary that provide androgens and hormonal precursors for estradiol production.
In girlfriends terms, it is this hormone and nothing that comes out that man's mouth (i.e. - game) that causes you to get into some trouble when you swore that man off.... last month, and the month before that... and two weeks before that as well.
Real talk, I had to put myself on birth control pills at 30 years of age. I no longer trusted myself to make educated and responsible decisions because of the havoc that Lucifer Lute was inflicting on my life. One vodka fueled night, drunk dialing and Lucifer Lute in play and yeah...just bad news for everyone ... and we want to avoid all of that. I seriously was sitting in my office one day, at 1:00pm and screamed out loud.."woooooooo...what is going on ???"
Lucifer Lute... you have no room in my life...not right now...but please come back when I finally get a husband. Amen and Amen....
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