Category: Fertility
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Stars – They Really Are Just Like Us!
Infertility isn’t an easy topic to talk about and talking with family and friends can be more of a challenge than expected. According to Resolve, 1 in 8 couples, or more than 7 million people experience infertility. That statistic includes celebrities who decided that IVF should be perceived with no shame or guilt. Just this past year,…
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‘Tis the Season for Self-Care!
Oh, Holidays. What a magical time of the year. Spending time with your loved ones, holiday parties, baking, the list could go on and on. But holidays can also bring up that dreaded question, “When are you going to have a baby?” Or if you’re struggling with secondary infertility, “When are you going to have…
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Fertility at 35
For women who hope to have a child, age 35 can loom large in one’s mind. Worry and fear can surround this birthday, and while fertility does decrease at this age, it is by no means a firm and sure “sell by” date as societal and cultural messages tend to dictate. Which is why it…
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The Future of Infertility Treatments?
As 2019 progresses, news of promising fertility and reproductive medicine advances continues to make headlines. Another Time Magazine cover titled “The Future of Babies,” features stories about uterus transplants, gene editing and the rise of three-parent embryos. Even more promising the main article which predominantly focuses on DNA editing—MRT or Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy—discusses how such…
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Watching an Embryo Develop
Our work at Hanabusa IVF is devoted to helping create embryos for implantation, so we were delighted to be able to see a video of an embryo—albeit a mouse embryo—in development. A recent New York Times article featured this new break through—originally published in Cell—by a team of researchers and scientists who developed a high-resolution…
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2019 Continues to Usher in New Experimental Treatments to Treat Infertility and POF
Forty years after the first successful IVF procedure, scientists and researchers continue to discover new exciting ways to treat infertility in women of all ages, including menopausal women. In one of the latest, more promising experimental treatments, eggs of menopausal women (deemed “leftover” eggs) are being used to produce viable eggs for IVF treatment. While…
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Avoiding Toxins
While diet, sleep and exercise all play a role in both good health and good reproductive health, there is another area we’d all do well to pay attention to—our bathroom and kitchen shelves and the products we use and are surrounded by on a daily basis. In previous blogs, we’ve discussed how endocrine disrupters can…