@HarmoniaAtLast There are several mistakes in this thread. I barely know where to start.
First, males don't ovulate. They don't have ovaries, so cannot.
The hypothalamus/pituitary axis you describe is incomplete. Regarding the menstrual cycle, it is a HP*G* axis, where G is short for "gonad", in this case, the ovary.
There is feedback between all three components to produce a menstrual cycle. That is, you need ovaries, and they release important signals to the hypothalamus and pituitary that are necessary for the cycle to exist.
One of those signals is estrogen which, contrary to your confident assertion that it is made in the pituitary, is made (along with progesterone) in the ovary.
The surge of estrgoen experienced shortly before ovulation is derived from the ovary. It signals to the pituitary to produce a surge of luteinising hormone that triggers ovulation, where ovulation is the release of an egg from an ovary.
So while you may have a pituitary, it doesn't produce estrogen around ovulation, because that happens in the ovary. Which you don't have.
The ovary is not just a bag of eggs waiting to be told to throw one out. It is an interactive and crucial part of the physical and hormone changes that comprise the female menstrual cycle.
The source of progesterone in the female cycle is not the ovarian tissue proper, but the remains of the egg follicle itself (after it has popped one out). That is, the cyclical nature of progesterone is dependent on the process of ovulation.
Slowly??? 😂
Steroid hormone effects are elicited in seconds to minutes. 🤦♀️
From elsewhere. Just inventing cycles from nowhere.
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