Doctors Silence The Biological Clock As Test Reveals When Every Individual Woman Will Lose Fertility

The problem with biological clocks is that for all their tick-tick-ticking, you never know when they will go off.

That dilemma is a thing of the past as doctors can now reveal when a women will become infertile, and when they will go through menopause.

This discovery will change the world, just wait and see.

A blood test has been invented to measure the levels of a certain hormone produced by the ovaries, which doctors say can allow them to pin-point when a woman can no longer have children.

“Our results suggest that the novel marker anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) [produced by the ovaries] could precisely forecast the age at menopause, even in young women,” said Dr Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, a senior researcher at the Endocrine Research Centre in Tehran.

The research will have to go through large-scale trials before it can be available to the general public.

But if she is right, this discovery could potentially do more for women than The Pill.

For women who want children, or who might want children, the tick of the biological clock is constantly heralding the end of their fertility. The problem is that we never know when the clock will go off, suddenly and irrevocably ending all chances of becoming biological mothers.

And of course the decision about when and whether to have a family shapes important decisions in a woman’s life.

Want to become a surgeon? Might not have time, better become a GP just to be on the safe side.

Want to make partner? Better decide not to have kids at all, because by the time you get there they just won’t be an option.

Want to dump him? Dunno, you’re already 32 and there just might not be time to find another husband. Perhaps you need to learn to compromise.

Although the average age of menopause is 51, it varies wildly among women. About one in six women get it under the age of 45, and some for some it even comes in their thirties. There is a hereditary component but there is no guarantee that you will get it at the same time your mom did.

Women are constantly bombarded with information, warning us about our warning fertility. Our eggs begin to age the moment we are born, our bodies are designed to have babies at 16 and a pregnancy after 35 is high risk (cue worries about deformed babies and dying in the delivery room).

Nothing can save us, we are warned that career-girls shouldn’t rely on IVF to have babies later in life, and that surrogacy is morally suspect.

Men manage to escape these attacks of concern, despite the fact their fertility also declines with age.

This knowledge gives us power and control of our bodies which unheard of in human history. It will also silence the voices that whisper in our ears, warning us that if we want it all, we might end up with nothing.