Dr Tessa Copp

And so, you know, it can take a little while to get pregnant.

But the one thing with all these testing before necessary is they can flag potential issues that might not actually be a problem when you start trying or vice versa.

Everything might come back fine, but then you still have trouble.

So for couples with infertility, 30% of them have unexplained infertility.

So that means they've had all these tests and everything's come back perfect.

Yeah.

So there's certainly, you know, no kind of guarantee or, you know, true indication of what it's going to be like for you.

Yeah, I think it's women are hungry.

So I think, you know, fertility is something that's wrapped up in a lot of women's identity.

A lot of women really want to have kids and there's a lot of fear and anxiety about whether they'll be able to conceive.

So

It sounds really appealing, this simple blood test.

And when it first came out years ago, it did seem like it was going to be, you know, this test that could indicate reproductive timeline.

But since then, the studies have consistently shown that it cannot predict your chances of conceiving.

And whilst it's associated with age of menopause, it's too imprecise and too variable to be useful for individual women.

to kind of, you know, say exactly when you're going to go through menopause.

Yeah, so we've done kind of a whole body of research around the anti-mullerian hormonal AMH test.

And so we've really examined how it's being marketed and promoted to women.

And so we've done studies of fertility clinic websites, but also online companies that are now popping up all around the world selling this test.

direct to consumers.