Dr. Stacy Sims

And first and foremost, we're gonna say that if you are trying to get pregnant, which by asking fertility, we're going to presume, we wanna make sure you have folic acid on board.

So folic acid is the essential component, one very important part in cell division, but it's essential for a baby when it comes to brain development and spinal cord development.

We call these neural tube defects.

And the reason why I'm bringing it up is that there's a lot of chatter about folic acid out there, but it is the only supplement, folic acid in its folic acid form,

that has proven to prevent these neural tube defects, such as your baby being born without a brain.

And interestingly, in today's world, a lot of foods are also fortified with folic acid, but these are some foods that are often processed and people are consuming less.

So we are having less consumption of folic acid in our diet, therefore making it even more important that we are supplementing with folic acid.

As Dr. Haver said, vitamin D, vitamin D is essential for your entire body.

But when it comes to hormone metabolism and fertility as well, we even see women who are going through IVF with donor eggs, and we know they're very good quality, have lower success rates if they have lower vitamin D levels.

This is something that almost everybody is deficient in.

We do test and then target treatment to try to get you to an optimal level.

But also omega-3 fatty acids are really important in your entire body, but especially in your reproductive years if you might get pregnant.

And I often recommend magnesium for most patients as well.

And then from a fertility standpoint, if you have infertility, there are studies that show that coenzyme Q10 can be highly beneficial when it comes to egg quality.

This is important in our mitochondrial health and for cancer.

the sake of the one question you asked.

Remember, we talked about eggs, we've got our genetic health, which is largely dependent on age, we have our metabolic health, the mitochondria from the egg controls all development for the embryo.

And in fact, the cellular functions for an embryo, the first three days of life solely come from the egg, the male genome doesn't even kick in until day three of embryo life.

So the function of the egg to be able to divide and

do normal cell functions is very important and sometimes we see that reduced in infertility patients and coenzyme q10 is an easy thing we can get over the counter doesn't appear to have any harmful side effects and has potential benefits in some subsets so my infertility patients i add that on wonder all things aging performance strength bone what is the supplement stack for for longevity