What if We've Gotten the Story of Overies Wrong?

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Where did the story about overies and their dwindling eggs even come from? rachel says, if wewe're going to give it likea a birthday or a birth decade, she would pick the 19 fifties. On to day's show, what if we've gotten the story of overi's wrong? And what would a new story look like?

There's an old story scientists tell about human ovaries: that they are ticking clocks that only lose eggs, never gain them. Now that story might be changing, opening the door to new treatments for infertility and menopause.

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