Dr. Lucky Sekhon

The average age of the woman who's coming in to talk to me about freezing her eggs has dramatically shifted.

And I published a paper on this coming from our clinic.

In 10 years of experience, we looked at the average age of the person who wants to freeze their eggs dramatically shifting from about 38 to 34, 35.

Wow.

Okay.

As a result, we're getting a lot more eggs per cycle frozen and better success rates when people are coming back to use their eggs.

Yes, yes.

So that's confusing, right?

Because I'm always kind of railing against these misinformation things you see online about, okay, you can regenerate your eggs, take the supplement, do this cleanse.

But this is the best way I can explain it.

There's nothing that's going to help you grow more eggs, regenerate more eggs, or repair the ones that have undergone the natural wear and tear of aging.

But every month or every cycle when your brain sends that signal to the ovary and one of those eggs begins to mature, what's actually happening when we talk about maturing eggs is that it's going through stages of genetic reorganization.

So that's when those chromosomes are being moved around and you can do things to try to create a healthier environment around that process.

There are really two points of that genetic reorganization.

when the egg is being matured and being pushed through the different stages of development where it's capable of being fertilized by sperm, and then when it's actually fertilized.

So what are the things you can do?

So insulin resistance is probably one of the biggest things that I look at when someone comes to me and says, you know what, I'm dealing with these problems, whether I'm trying on my own, or often it's like an unexpected outcome.

Someone who is...

young enough that I thought it would be reasonable to get a certain number of embryos from that certain number of eggs that were retrieved.

And there was a lot of drop-off and attrition in a way that makes you think, okay, there might be an egg quality issue here.