Beware! These Common Items in Your House Can Harm Egg Quality
Our modern world is filled with conveniences to make our lives easier. Plastic containers to store our food, pans coated with teflon for easy cleaning, and pesticides to keep our…
How to Increase Egg Quality to Get Pregnant
If you’ve been told you have “old eggs” or “poor egg quality”, your fertility doctor may have told you the only way to get pregnant is with donor eggs. Devastated…
What is Primary Ovarian Insufficiency?
The term primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) refers to when the ovaries stop working before the age of 40. It is also called premature ovarian failure (POF) by some doctors. To…
How PCOS and Weight Affect Fertility
A quick recap of part one of this series: Leptin is the hormone produced in your adipose (fat) tissue that tells your body whether you have enough food. It controls…
Leptin’s Surprising Role in Fertility – Part 1
How does leptin, a hormone talked almost exclusively in the context of appetite control affect fertility? Leptin is rarely acknowledged for its importance in fertility despite many studies clearly showing…
Are You at Risk for Premature Ovarian Failure?
Spring’s here! The trees are leafing out, birds are chirping, and cute little lambs are in the pastures. Interestingly, some of those pastures have more lambs than others. This is…
Melatonin’s Effect on Egg Quality and Fertility
Melatonin is well known as a ‘sleep hormone’ and often taken as a supplement to help improve sleep quality. But, less familiar, is melatonin’s role in fertility and protecting egg…
How much DHEA is Safe to Take Daily to Improve Egg Quality and for IVF
If you’ve done IVF, your doctor might have recommended DHEA supplementation before your IVF cycle started. Or you might have come across DHEA as a way to improve egg quality in your research.
How does CoQ10 Improve Egg Health in the Older Woman?
Choosing the right supplements when trying to get pregnant is confusing with all the choices available. However, some become increasingly important…
How to Get Pregnant Into Your 40s
Trying to get pregnant and 1 or more of the following applies to you?
You’re over 37 years old, maybe in your 40s Diagnosed with low AMH…