Dr. Lucky Sekhon

Endometriosis can get worse in the background.

But in general, the pregnancy rate remains kind of flat, which is incredible because even if someone has their ovaries surgically removed if they needed to for a medical reason or they stop functioning...

I can still get them pregnant if I have something to work with.

If I have frozen eggs or embryos, I can give them hormones to set up the perfect environment and then implant an embryo.

They get pregnant.

We continue to supplement those hormones until the placenta takes over between seven to 10 weeks of pregnancy.

I mean, stop stressing about trying to control everything because so much of this is out of our control.

But at the same time, you don't want to bury your head in the sand and say, oh, it's not in my control, so I don't need a plan.

You know, I'm definitely not one of those fertility doctors that tells everyone, everyone must freeze their eggs.

Everyone must freeze embryos.

But I do think everyone should have an informed conversation about it if they think they could find themselves in a situation where they might be trying to build their family in their mid to late 30s and beyond.

I think if you're in your early 30s and you're nowhere near ready and you think it's realistic that you'll be 35 and older while you're trying to build your family, then it's actually a really smart idea.

And something I'm seeing that I find really uplifting is this trend where Gen Z is talking about fertility a lot more.

And the number of women that have come to me in their late 20s, early 30s, maybe they don't have any intention of freezing their eggs.

but for a fertility checkup, for a counseling conversation, because they as a generation are recognizing that health class is not sufficient.

And relying on- Across the board.

Right, and relying on Instagram or TikTok to just get scraps of information or hoping that you just happen to have a great OBGYN that also has all the time in the world to counsel you and fill in that knowledge gap.

So they're like, let me just go straight to the source.

Let me go to a fertility doctor and I just want to learn my options.

Another really interesting thing that I'm seeing as a changing trend is,