New Friends and Old, Part 5
Jul13
on July 13, 2018
at 12:01 am
Requiem: Silence
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A minimum of 1 million eggs, at let’s say 25 eggs per year (some periods can release multiple), would still last for 40,000 years. We’re only supposed to be at the 6000-something mark, right?
Wrong. Women are born with 1–2 million potential eggs (in the form of ovarian follicles), but that’s all the eggs they’ll ever have. By puberty, a woman’s egg count might be 1 million; at 25, maybe 300,000. Then, around 35, the decline starts to get a bit steeper, meaning she could lose an even higher number of eggs per month until menopause. Scientists peg the amount of lost eggs at approximately a thousand per month. By the 50’s they are pretty much gone.