In humans, the fetal stage begins around the ninth week of gestation (eleventh week since the start of the last menstrual period)....
Specifically, 40.2% of abortions in 2022 occurred within the first six weeks of pregnancy, and another 38.4% occurred between seven and nine weeks. This means that the vast majority of abortions (78%) are performed during the embryonic stage of development
A woman is typically born with around 1-2 million eggs in their ovaries
https://www.cnyfertility.com/how-many-eggs-do-women-have/
Wow 30 to 40 eggs detach a day from the ovary
The number of eggs that leave the “waiting pool” each day is highly dependent upon the age of the woman. During peak reproductive years, roughly 30-40 eggs will leave this waiting pool and start to develop each day (a thousand a month). Of these, only 1/10th will enter a menstrual cycle and typically only one egg is developed fully and ovulated.
So one egg out of a thousand ovulates each month. Fascinating.
The average woman runs out of eggs and starts menopause around the egg of 52.
Do fava beans really smell like semen and that's why they were prohibited by Pythagoras?
The beans they referred to were fava beans.Aristotle provides us with a hodgepodge of explanations as to what the deal was with the Pythagoreans — sorry, the so-called Pythagoreans — and beans. He says:
They resembled genitals, or the gates of Hades, or because it is harmful or because it resembles the nature of the universe, or because it is not oligarchical
Given the Pythagorean prohibition on eating anything associated with origin or growth, it is perhaps not surprising that they would be wary of eating a food that looked like genitals. But it may be that their rationale was even deeper than a superficial resemblance. It seems in the creation of the world they believed that both humans and beans sprouted from the same mud. As proof for the relationship between beans and new life, the author Porphyry says that Pythagoras proposed the following experiment. Partially chew some fava beans and then spit them out into the sun. Leave them there for some time. When you come back, you will find that they smell like semen. A researcher in the 1960s replicated this experiment and verified that, indeed, the result does smell, “something like sperm.” Furthermore, Pythagoras says that if some of those beans were in bloom and had turned black, and then you put it in a pot, seal it, and bury it underground, after ninety days you will find that there will be a child’s head there or the sexual organs of a woman.
Heraclides Ponticus says that to Pythagoras, “eating beans and eating the heads of one’s parents amounts to the same thing.”
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