The Egg Whisperer Show

Today on The Egg Whisperer Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Banafsheh Kashani, a fertility doctor from Eden Centers for Advanced Fertility. If you're looking for answers to your fibroid questions, this is the podcast episode for you. As a fibroid and fertility expert, Dr. Bana is sharing all of her knowledge with us about the impact of fibroids on fertility and pregnancy. Tune in and share widely as you will be extremely impressed by her wealth of knowledge on this topic. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

On today’s podcast episode, I'm going to be sharing how you can prevent infertility. No one gets married (not that you need to be married to have a baby) and says, “I can’t wait to see Dr. Aimee and have fertility issues." And that's why I'm doing tonight's episode. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Today on the Egg Whisperer Show, I’m answering one of the most common questions I get from all of you: How can I improve embryo quality? And, I also very often get the questions of how could I improve egg and sperm quality too? I’m really excited to talk about this with you today!! The thing is this, there are three factors that influence egg, sperm and embryo quality that I want you to know about. Once you know about it, then you can do something about how these three things come into play in your life. And the three factors that I want you to know about are age, genetics, and environment. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

In a recent Ask The Egg Whisperer, Barbara from Cyprus sent in a question as she weights the options of IVF. Here's what she asked, "I am 37 years old and I have a 5 year old boy. For the last 1 year we have been trying to get pregnant for a second child. I tried to follow your TUSHY Method and I think I got most of it done. I had polyps removed, AMH is 1.92, FSH 10.2, thyroid is normal, sperm is very good, tubes are open.  My doctor is suggesting to do IVF without trying IUI first because of my low AMH and my age. However, I am very reluctant and scared to try IVF as I feel that maybe there is something I can "fix" and conceive naturally. Am I being unreasonable?  Should I just bite the bullet and do it or do you suggest anything else I could do or test before IVF?" This is such a great question, and I totally get it. If I could help every single person get pregnant without IVF, I would do it. My guess is that your doctors don't want you to waste your precious time. They don't want to take your fertility for granted and they want to move forward with the healthy exit you have at the age of 37, it's harder to get pregnant with a healthy egg. However, given your history, you probably still have a really good chance of having a healthy pregnancy and could IUI work with you. But, it might be more efficient to go right to IVF first. And that's something that I recommend to everyone who is 37 and above. However, if your gut is telling you to consider IUI first, just do one or two rounds of it. If it doesn't work, then you can go to IVF. Make sure that you share your priorities with your doctor and that they also understand those priorities. Tune in for my full answer, and the answer to other listener questions. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School

I’m honored to be joined by Dr. Carol Burton, who is a reproductive biologist practicing clinical embryology. Her active research interests span reproductive biology, from basic embryology to cutting edge artificial intelligence applications for IVF. She is the founder of ARTCompass, which is a free open source image based embryology survey tool, and she is the recent author of The Thin Pink Line: Regulating Reproduction.  Her book is truly all about empowering people by educating them about  present-day drivers of access, structural inequality, and quality of care issues in reproduction. I am glad that Dr. Burton is bringing them to  light so we can address them and change things. No discussion of infertility would be complete without this discussion.

Today, I have one of my dearest friends and one of the most famous fertility doctors in the world here for an interview, Dr. Julie Lamb. She’s here to talk about her recent publication, The Fertility Experts’ Guide to Egg Freezing: Everything You Need to Know About Putting Your Fertility on Ice. Basically, every single person out there who is thinking about freezing their eggs needs to get this book from the very start.  I'm so excited to get to have her on the show to talk about egg freezing, fertility preservation, finding the right clinic for your journey, and the step by step process of egg freezing. Click here to get the full show notes and transcript Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

One of the most common questions I get is, "Dr. Aimee, how can I improve egg, sperm and embryo quality?” We know that age, genetics and environment influence egg, sperm, and embryo quality. I've been searching for a diagnostic tool that monitors environmental exposures for my patients, and I'm so excited to have found that one exists.⁠ ⁠Dr. Jenna Hua of Million Marker joins me to talk all about the impacts of the environment on fertility. We will be talking about how plastics, BPA, and phthalates impact your fertility and reproductive health.⁠ Click here to get the full show notes and transcript Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

I love getting your questions for Ask The Egg Whisperer. In this episode, Shereen from the Middle East sent in a great question. Here's what she want's to know, "What is your advice for women over 40 who are undergoing hormone induction and probably will do IUI/IVF vs COVID vaccine?  Is it advisable to get the vaccine if a woman has future plans to have kids? Thanks, and God bless." My recommendation is get the vaccine. I want all my patients to be fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated means is that they have had their second shot. If they're doing the two shot Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, you will want to have that second shot two weeks before their embryo transfer, and it's the same thing with doing an IUI. That's what I recommend.  Tune in to hear my answer, and 9 other questions from listeners and followers. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School

In this episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, Lisa from Florida sent in a great question. Here's what she want's to know, "I am currently TTC and taking a prenatal vitamin that includes choline (One A Day prenatal advanced). I have listened to your show and you often recommend CoQ10. Would it be beneficial for me to add C0Q10? Is it safe to take with prenatal vitamins?" The short answer to this question is that it's safe, and I recommend that all of my patients take CoQ10 until they are done having babies. You can listen to the rest of my answer in today's episode.  Tune in to hear my answer to Lisa's question, and 9 other questions from listeners and followers. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School

In this episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, Alexandria from Greece sent in a question. Here's what she asked, "I'm 45 years old, and I'm about to start my first IVF cycle. I want to give it one try only. My doctor prescribed Gonal F 450 for the first four days. It sounds like a very high dose to me. I know that in some countries the maximum dose they give is 300. I've read that older eggs tend not to like such high doses of gonadotropin. Is this true? I would love to hear your opinion." Tune in to hear my answer to Alexandria's question, and 9 other questions from listeners and followers. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School