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Five supplements which will improve your egg health fast-track

2017-10-13T12:01:40+01:00June 20th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Image credit: alex_ugalek at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Egg maturation and growth depend on woman's age and general health, as well as on flow of nutrients to the ovaries. This means that your diet, your exercise, even the way you manage stress will have impact on the egg maturation processes. In addition to good nutrition (here you can read about why eating Mediterranean diet helps) and a healthy, fertility-supporting lifestyle, there are supplements that can give [...]

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What REALLY happens when egg fuses with sperm cell

2017-10-13T12:01:40+01:00May 29th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Honestly, I never really wondered what exactly happens in a moment when egg and sperm unite. I assumed, science would know all about it; for such an important event one would expect tons of literature describing every millisecond of it, right? Or at least a handful of studies demonstrating what happens in the moment of creation, a moment that each and every one of us went through? A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, an artist, [...]

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Five over-35-fertility-news items I thought you may like to hear about

2017-10-13T12:01:41+01:00May 9th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Image credit: marin at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Sometimes I love to tell long stories and take a lot of time to research one single topic. Some other times I come across smaller news items related to getting pregnant after 35 which are not big or interesting enough to develop into articles, but could potentially be important for some of you. So today I will list five fertility-related news items from the past weeks that I [...]

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Alcohol and making babies – too many false alarms?

2017-10-13T12:01:41+01:00April 29th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

How much wine is safe when trying to conceive? Alcohol exposure in pregnancy carries risks, sure. It has been known for decades that alcohol use while trying to conceive and later in pregnancy can lead to a variety of effects on physical, mental and behavioral development of babies. However, how much alcohol at what time of pregnancy causes which defects in babies is currently still mostly unknown. Even less evidence is available on [...]

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Fertility bloodwork: 7 hormones which are most important for fertility

2017-10-13T12:01:41+01:00March 28th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Image credit: Tuomas Lehtinen at FreeDigitalPhotos.net What hormones are tested for fertility? This happens to me often: a woman writes to me and tells me all about her fertility journey and asks a ton of questions. Then I say: all right, but could you please send me your recent bloodwork? Then the woman sends me a ton of data: all the stimulation protocols she's been through, her husband's sperm values, all kinds of [...]

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Is it possible to increase AMH levels?

2017-10-13T12:01:41+01:00March 14th, 2016|Tags: , , |

Image credit: hadkhanong at FreeDigitalPhotos.net AMH (Anti-Müllerian Hormone) is a hormone secreted in the granulosa cells (satellite cells which surround eggs) and its robustness and stability throughout the cycle makes it the most important parameter in terms of predicting ovarian reserve. A simple blood test taken on any day of the cycle will give you this important information (best is at day 3 because you can measure several more hormones at this point). [...]

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Diagnosed with low ovarian reserve? A little story about how this blog started.

2017-10-13T12:01:41+01:00March 7th, 2016|Tags: , , |

Image courtesy: jscreationzs at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Getting pregnant always looked like something that happens easily, so I've spent decades believing that (and doing everything possible to make it not happen). When I only think of all the sex I did not enjoy because I was subconsciously busy calculating my fertile days and obsessing about condoms not being safe enough... The moment I started trying to get pregnant, everything went wrong. I will never forget [...]

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Do you know your AMH and FSH levels?

2017-10-13T12:01:43+01:00February 12th, 2016|Tags: , , , , |

My best friend is thirty-nine and is still postponing having a baby. We have discussed all kinds of fertility topics for years - from egg freezing, to low ovarian reserve, tracking ovulation etc., and still she would not even go to a doctor to find out about her AMH or FSH. “What if it's bad?” she says. “Then I will just start panicking and will feel bad for not having frozen any eggs before.” So [...]

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PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline quinone) for egg health? Don’t make the lab out of your body!

2017-10-13T12:01:43+01:00January 18th, 2016|Tags: , , , , |

Image courtesy: jk1991at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Some months ago I was asked for the first time about using PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline quinone) to improve egg quality. I was not too surprised, as women often come to me long lists of supplements which they take in hope of improving egg quality and often my consulting work boils down to reducing long lists to include only the supplements which work, in the dosages which were proven in the [...]

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What is the value of a human egg? How much would you pay to your egg donor?

2017-10-13T12:01:43+01:00January 4th, 2016|Tags: , , |

Image credit: phaitoon at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Tips on choosing an egg donor Thousands of babies are being born each year as a result of egg donation. In 2013, over 9,500 babies were born thanks to donated eggs. Fifteen years ago (something like middle age of reproductive medicine), egg donation was more a method then a business. At that time, ASRM (American Society for Reproductive Medicine), the primary organization for physicians and researchers in reproductive [...]

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