Jaime 39yo – Pregnant After 5 Failed IVFs
This is one I hear a lot, and it’s something you may have found yourself thinking. “Why won’t my body just do what it is supposed to?!” Or, another flavor of that which is, “My ovaries hate me…” or “My uterus hates me…” Nothing could be further from the truth. Here’s what your body does […]
Amy 33yo – Unexplained Infertility
Supplements can be helpful – don’t get me wrong. I routinely use them in clinic, and I’ve seen so many cases where they have been. But I’ve also seen cases where they’ve been a hindrance. Supplements are powerful and they’re extremely safe when used properly. But that doesn’t mean they can’t mess things up with […]
Marie 34yo – 6x More Eggs After Some Simple Changes
It certainly helps to eat healthy but, as you have probably witnessed firsthand, for some reason there’s always that person who drinks two Red Bulls a day and eats like total crap yet still gets pregnant. What this proves to me isn’t that those people are just “lucky” or somehow “breaking the rules”. To me […]
Debbie 38yo & Susan 32yo – PCOS
This is one I love to debunk. The textbook cycle is 28 days. It’s a “textbook” cycle because it’s the number that was written into medical textbooks. And, that’s the ONLY reason. True, the lunar cycle is 28 days and, true, many, many women end up with their cycles synced up to that. But a […]
Sarah – 40yo – Multiple Failed FETs
I love this one because it gets into the concept of optimization, which is an idea near and dear to my heart. Optimization means making small changes and getting big results. I learned about optimization when I was a software engineer between 1995 and 2008. At the company I worked for, we would write these […]
Jenny – 39 – Extremely Low AMH
Here’s what we know about AMH: It is secreted by primordial follicles in the ovaries. These are the tiny little follicles that are in their most early stage of development. I don’t want to get too far off track here but, just in case you didn’t already know this, you were born with about 500,000 […]
Mindy 36yo & Sandra 39yo – Poor Egg Quality
In 2008, Mindy – a 36-year-old with no children and unexplained infertility – came to me 1 week before her 3rd fresh IVF cycle. Neither of her first two cycles – the last of which was the previous month – produced a blastocyst. She was told she had poor egg quality and they would try […]
