What role does Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) play in conception?
Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) is an extract of the Evening Primrose flower. Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) contains Gamma Linolenic acid (GLA), an essential fatty acid that gets converted into a hormone-like substance called prostaglandin E1. This substance helps to reduce the Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS). Evening Primrose Oil or EPO also helps women to produce more fertile quality vaginal mucus also known as egg white vaginal mucus. Somewhere around the 13th or 15th day of your menstrual cycle your cervix should produce this type of vaginal mucus. It corresponds to the time of your menstrual cycle when you ovulate. This is the release of an egg from the ovary that is further fertilized by a sperm. This type of vaginal mucus is fertile, thin, watery, clear and can be easily stretched between two fingers. It easily aids the sperm to swim its way into the uterus through the cervix till it reaches the egg and fertilizes it. This vaginal mucus also helps in nourishing the sperms for two to three
