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As a woman ages, her ovarian function and egg reserve naturally decline. Every woman is born with a finite number of eggs that decreases over time. Rather than focus on a woman's calendar age, infertility specialists are more concerned with her biological age, as measured by the number of eggs remaining in her ovaries, which is called her ovarian reserve.
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- 2. Usually, ovarian function goes hand in hand with age, and as a woman becomes older, her ovarian response starts declining .
- 3. Every girl is born with a finite number of eggs, and their number progressively declines with age . A measure of the remaining number of eggs in the ovary is called the " ovarian reserve " ; and as the woman ages, her ovarian reserve gets depleted .
- 4. The infertility specialist is really not interested in the woman's calendar ( or chronological age ) , but rather her biological age - or how many eggs are left in her ovaries .