{"id":563242,"date":"2026-07-22T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:00:20","slug":"rumer-willis-hormone-tracking-helped-me-better-understand-my-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563242\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumer Willis: Hormone Tracking Helped Me Better Understand My Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RumerShare on Pinterest<\/a>Rumer Willis is sharing how hormone tracking helped her better understand her cycle, and why she\u2019s encouraging other women to better understand their reproductive health. Photo by Victoria Wall HarrisRumer Willis says hormone tracking helped her better understand her cycle.Experts say at-home hormone tests may help confirm ovulation and guide fertility planning.Willis hopes more women feel empowered to advocate for their reproductive health.<\/p>\n

When actress Rumer Willis gave birth to her daughter in 2023, the experience amplified her desire to better understand her body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never quite understood what was going on with my cycle,\u201d Willis told Healthline.<\/p>\n

Watching infertility<\/a> affect women around her fueled her desire to learn more about her reproductive health.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always had this fear, what if that happens to me? And so I wanted to be overly prepared. I wanted to understand what was going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She turned to the at-home fertility monitor Mira<\/a> for guidance. The system measures hormone concentrations in urine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized through using Mira that when I was ovulating, according to the algorithms, that I was actually much later, and that if I had been actively trying to conceive, I would have been missing it every month,\u201d said Willis.<\/p>\n

Kecia Gaither,<\/a>MD, who is double board certified in OB\/GYN and maternal fetal medicine, said at-home hormone tests, such as urine LH ovulation strips and progesterone<\/a> metabolite tests, can provide pattern data that may prompt earlier evaluation and confirm whether a woman is ovulating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is helpful if intercourse timing is needed when trying to conceive,\u201d Gaither told Healthline. \u201cIf used, pair with a simple cycles log [that tracks] start date, flow patterns, symptoms, and share the results with your health provider.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avoid rapid weight changes and get adequate caloric intake.Engage in moderate rather than excessive exercise.Practice stress reduction.<\/p>\n

For women who are trying to conceive, she recommends having intercourse every 2 to 3 days throughout their cycle if their periods are irregular.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther options your health provider may discuss include ovulation<\/a> induction, treatment of any thyroid issues<\/a>, and lifestyle alterations\/interventions that restore ovulation,\u201d said Gaither.<\/p>\n

While Willis wasn\u2019t actively trying to conceive when she became pregnant with her daughter, she said the Mira system played an unexpected role. <\/p>\n

She decided to use it to evaluate her hormone levels, and the results gave her a clue that she was pregnant before she took a pregnancy test.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy progesterone was through the roof, and I was supposed to be getting my period in a couple days,\u201d Willis said.<\/p>\n

Willis has always been interested in speaking up about women\u2019s and reproductive health, but becoming a mom pushed her advocacy to a new level.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I got pregnant and felt like I was kind of shoved headfirst into this world\u2026 there was so much more\u2026that I hadn\u2019t even scratched the surface,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She is grateful to have access to care and providers and wants to help other women get the answers they need. She wants women to \u201cfeel empowered to make choices based on real informed consent, not based on outsourcing validation to doctors, to our friends, to the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

She hopes the narrative around sex education and hormone literacy improves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe framework is, if you have sex, you\u2019re going to get pregnant. If you have sex, you\u2019re going to get an STD. It\u2019s all fear-based, but that doesn\u2019t really give you hormone or reproductive health literacy,\u201d Willis said.<\/p>\n

Gaps in medical research are another issue she wants addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost medication that all of us take every day is only tested on male bodies,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s just so much that I feel like we are in the dark about with women\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n

What keeps her motivated is the idea that data can become a form of self-advocacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding tools, especially tools that you can have at home, that you have the power in your own hands to be able to then say [to a doctor], \u2018Hey, here\u2019s my data\u2026I need you to listen to me because I have this wealth of knowledge that you can\u2019t dispute,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Willis hopes to have several more children, maybe as many as eight, so protecting her fertility and understanding her reproductive health remain a vital part of her life.<\/p>\n

She hopes her daughter and future children will have better information and data about their own health.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want my daughter growing up in a world where she doesn\u2019t have access to proper health care and understanding of her body,\u201d said Willis.<\/p>\n

As a 37-year-old woman, she is also thinking ahead to the next stage of her reproductive health.<\/p>\n

\u201c[As] one day I transition towards perimenopause<\/a>, I want to have an understanding of what\u2019s happening,\u201d said Willis. \u201cI think that all women deserve access to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share on PinterestRumer Willis is sharing how hormone tracking helped her better understand her cycle, and why she\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-563242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}