Breaking News: Vacations Discovered as New Fertility Drug

I’m pushing for a long term study and I bet the results would mimic the following. If we go on vacations about 3% of our lives (2 weeks out of a 52 week year), I would bet that much more than 3% of all pregnancies occur on vacation. 

Did you ever get back from vacation and you say something like, “I’m so relaxed. I don’t even want to go back to work.” Makes sense because that’s what vacations are for. We go on vacation to get away from the daily rituals of life and to re-charge our batteries. In other words, to de-stress.

Stress affects the hypothalamus, a specific area in the brain which secretes hormones that travel through the blood to the pituitary gland. These hormones cause the pituitary gland to release FSH and LH hormones. The LH hormones then stimulate the ovaries to produce estrogen. As one famous fertility expert once said, “Reproduction is the world’s greatest miracle because so many things have to be right and so many hormones have to be balanced. It’s just a miracle that it ever happens.”

So if you want to increase the chances of getting pregnant and experiencing the miracle, go on vacation.