Now the hypothalamus releases a special type of hormone known as the gonadotropin releasing hormone or GnRH. And what GnRH does is it moves down to the anterior pituitary gland and it stimulates that gland to produce two important hormones the luteinizing hormone and a follicle stimulating hormone. So the more GnRH we have in our bloodstream the more of these two hormones we're going to have in our bloodstream. Now both LH and FSH move down to the ovaries and stimulate the development of the follicle inside the ovaries but they do it in two different ways as we'll see in just a moment. So let's take a look at our developing follicle. The developing follicle actually consists of several important components.