Zara Seidler

Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz.

It's Sunday the 31st of May.

I'm Zara Seidler.

I'm Billie Fitzsimons.

If you're a young woman, there's no doubt that the topic of fertility has come up in some conversation with your friends.

It feels like every day there's new information surfacing on social media about testing your fertility, how fertility changes with age, and what you as an individual are actually in control of.

But as we've seen interest in this topic grow, so too has the rise in misinformation.

On today's podcast, we are going to speak to Dr Tessa Cock from the University of Sydney about discerning fact from fiction when it comes to fertility and how to navigate the online world of misinformation.

A quick note before we start, this podcast was made possible by our friends at the University of Sydney.

But as always, TDA has independently written and produced all editorial content without commercial influence.

Now, Billie, when we were thinking about this topic and covering this topic, you and I had a phone call.

I remember I was on my way to a hen's.

and I was in a car full of girls.

We were talking about the topic of fertility and specifically the AMH test, which we're going to get into in my interview with Dr. Tessa.

But I wanted to get a sense from you.

Is this a topic that's coming up with you and your friends at the moment?

Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting concept about whether it became inaccurate or whether the way it's been marketed has just been misleading because what we're going to talk about in today's podcast is that this AMH test can test how many eggs a woman has, but it can't tell you anything about the quality of those eggs.

And the reason that I first got interested in this, it was also a number of years ago, but one of my friends was telling me that she had seen her doctor, her gynecologist who had recommended that she do this test and

and it had sped up her timeline dramatically because she found out she had really low egg reserves.

It turns out that wasn't correct.