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Doctors are healers, but they are also medical scientists. These medical professionals have an insatiable curiosity when it comes to the human body and how it works – as well as the reasons why it’s not working. This inherent curiosity is the reason modern medicine exists in the first place.
Through careful observation, query and study, we learn more and more about how to support what is working and how to fix what isn’t.
Look Who’s Published in Fertility and Sterility
This curiosity is exemplified by a recent research article written by RRC’s own Dr. William Phipps. The article was published in the December 2015 (104;6) issue of Fertility and Sterility, one of the foremost journals published for OB/GYNs, endocrinologists and fertility specialists. It goes to show that even a very busy endocrinologist and fertility specialist still can’t resist the urge to work a little harder and do research in his “spare time.”
The publication covers a cross-sectional study of 19 young healthy women with ovulatory menstrual cycles in an effort to study factors influencing sex hormone-binding globulin concentrations in normally cycling premenopausal women (Yes, we know, it’s a lot to take in for those of those in the non-medical and/or non-scientific world).
The results, which, “…highlight the link between androgen action, as reflected by bioavailable T, and circulating SHBG concentrations in all premenopausal women and speak to the importance of the relationship between SHBG and adiponectin, which is at least in part independent from androgen action,” help to shed more light on the illusive relationship between hormone levels, hormone relationships and their effect on female fertility.
You can read more about the study at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26385402.