Fertility fact or fertility fiction? Freezing your eggs guarantees you a baby later fiction.

What if your Future husband is 90 years old and has one measly sperm?

That would be a problem. What do you think about these acupuncture treatments and things like that for fertility?

That's not going to get you pregnant, but being calm, cool and collected during the time that you're trying to conceive is important.

Oldest person that you have seen conceive naturally?

I think 48.

Okay. Lucky gal there.

Yeah, she won the lotto.

We always like to play a game, so would you be game?

Sure, let's play. I love games.

All right, perfect. This game is called Fertility fact or fertility fiction.

Okay, Love it.

So I'll give you a statement and you tell me if it's fact or fiction.

All right.

You can't get pregnant naturally after 45.

Fiction. Some people can.

Yeah, some people can. You do hear those stories, you know. Freezing your eggs guarantees you a baby later fiction.

There is no guarantee with freezing your eggs.

Okay. So you could freeze an amazing quality egg and it just doesn't implant or the pregnancy.

What if your Future husband is 90 years old and has one measly sperm?

Yeah, that would be a problem.

Yep.

For pregnancy at least. Sperm quality doesn't decline until after 60.

Fiction. Sperm quality starts to decline around 40.

Oh, okay, this is interesting. So their men and women are on a similar trajectory as far as like the quality of the egg and sperm goes the decline.

For men, it never stops. They continue to make sperm. But some men's sperm starts to decline around 40, but unlike women, it doesn't end. So you may have average sperm and be 60, but still have it.

Okay, so the quantity is still there. The quantity kind of never drops.

They both drop. They both drop. Okay, but it's still usable and you can still make a kid with it.

Yeah, even a 90 year old. Like you're saying one sperm maybe does the trick.

Yep.

That's so interesting. IVF works the first time for most women.

Fact. Okay, so I think it depends on where you go, but I have a lot of patients that it does work the first time. Okay.

Oh, that's 84%, right?

84%. Well, 84% of a transfer led to pregnancy. Sometimes it took two or three tries to get an embryo to go to a transfer. Okay, so there's two parts to ivf. Making of the healthy embryo and then the transfer of the embryo.

Okay. Which part is more harrowing or more difficult?

That's a really good question. I think they both Are. The first part involves a lot of protocols and monitoring and timing. The second part takes a lot of skill with transfer and preparing of the lining and the way the technique you put an embryo. So they're both very, very one mess in either of them. And you have no pregnancy.

So it is like just. I mean, both have to be so exact.

Yes.

Okay. IUIs have a much lower rate of success than IVF.

Fact. Much lower.

Much lower. Is there a percentage?

It depends on your age.

Okay. Is there an upper limit for iui, you think?

Well, our natural conception rates for women and their peak of fertility is about 25% per month.

Okay.

You cannot. An IUI will help you get to that level again at. On its best day ever. And that's very, very rare. Yes.

Stress can ruin your chances of conception.

Trick, because it's complicated. Under the most stressful environments in the world, people have still gotten pregnant. But I believe, and I believe that stress can do anything, including keeping you from getting pregnant as well. So it's a yes and no.

What do you think about these acupuncture treatments and things like that for fertility?

I think that if you're going to a good acupuncturist, that calms you down, makes you feel great, makes you feel reset, you should do it. That's not going to get you pregnant, but being calm, cool, and collected during the time that you're trying to conceive is important.

Okay. So just relax about it for as much as you can. Okay.

Yes.

Okay. You need 20 plus eggs to have a shot at pregnancy.

Statistic fact. So there are studies that have said that when you are 35 to 39 years of age, you should have 20 to 26 eggs to get a live birth.

Really?

So that's just.

You conceive naturally, like if you try to do natural conception?

No, that's. What if you're freezing an egg.

Oh, okay. Okay.

So. So if you're freezing your eggs and you're 35 to 39 and you want to have one child, your goal should be around 20 eggs. Okay.

Should be around 20 eggs. Okay. And what is the oldest person that you have seen conceived naturally?

I think 48.

Okay. Where it just. It just happened for. For them.

They weren't just happened. Wow.

No treatments, nothing, huh?

Yeah.

Well, lucky, lucky gal there.

Yeah, she won the lotto.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming on.

Thank you. I loved being on. This was so much fun. Thank you so much.