Hyperprolactinaemia is a major cause of anovulation. Anovulation means no ovulation occurs in a woman’s menstrual cycle. Hyperprolactinaemia is where abnormally high levels of the hormone prolactin are in the blood. Prolactin is a hormone that is found in both men and women, that’s secreted by the pituitary gland and is released at various times during the day. This hormone enlarges a woman’s mammary gland preparing her for breastfeeding.
New research has been discovered, until now not much was known in detail of what increases prolactin in women. All that was known was that an increase of prolactin in women had disturbed one of the most important hormones affecting fertility, GnRH(Gonadotropin releasing hormone), which is responsible for the production of sex hormones, and the stimulation of the luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone (LH and FSH). Read full article.
