Natalie Crawford

"I've used human growth hormone for years and years and years, right? There's not an FDA approval to use HGH for egg quality. Yet, we see that it can improve egg quality in the right patient in the lab."

"The most intriguing part of the conversation for me right now is GLP-1s and their use for potential chronic inflammatory disease like endometriosis. I will have patients go on a GLP-1 low dose for three months we have to take stop them and then go through a cycle of different IVF outcomes we will see more embryos in the lab"

"N-acetylcysteine for endometriosis or chronic inflammatory disease"

"Inositol for PCOS decreases insulin resistance huge benefit"

"For sperm health, L-carnitine we like a lot. And then zinc and selenium can have benefits as well."

"Low doses of melatonin supplementation can impact fertility. So, doses of 1 to 3 milligrams 30 minutes before you go to bed, can improve your odds of getting pregnant as well, can influence egg quality."

"Everybody should get an AMH test. I think it's a very important marker. If you are listening to this and you want kids one day, ask your doctor for this test."

"CoQ10, which has robust human data that is advantageous without a negative benefit. That's an easier place to leverage your supplement dollars if you're going to spend because most of us don't want to spend endless amounts on all the things that we can craft for our supplement list."

"We could try Clomid. We could try IUI. We could try surgery. We could try IVF."

"Animal data looks like NAD and NMN can be advantageous especially for unexplained infertility which to be clear is different than I just want to get pregnant right and unexplained infertility you're not conceiving we do the basic test anatomy ovulation ovarian reserve seam analysis they're all fine so I view that as chronic inflammation unless proven otherwise and so that's a unique situation that patients may have potential benefit"

"Many of the online platforms like Function Health. You can have an AMH checked through them."

"I did fellowship research with the primary investigator on a large cohort study, one of the biggest ones we have on natural fertility. And this study was called Time to Conceive."

"The birth control pill is a combination of synthetic estrogen, ethinyl estradiol, and a type of progesterone or a progestogen. These work by telling the brain, essentially tricking it so the brain doesn't send out FSH or LH."

"The progesterone IUD is local progesterone that is placed inside the uterus. There's different types that can release progesterone in different amounts."

"I don't usually recommend it in a supplement form. Like I never recommend it. I think if you have a doctor who's giving it for very specific purpose, you might be a unique person who has excess inflammation they're trying to target, but that's not something that I recommend, but cooking with it is fine."

"If women take NSAIDs around the time of ovulation, Advil, ibuprofen, Aleve, they'll prevent the follicle from rupturing. Yes. So they will go through the hormonal changes of ovulation, but the egg will not be released."

"This is a high-dose intramuscular progesterone shot that can prevent ovulation for three months. But one single dose can prevent ovulation for 18 months. So this is that one exception where if you want to get pregnant potentially in the next two years, please don't get Depo Provera."

"Biotin levels of taking a biotin supplementation of 300 micrograms or more for seven days can actually influence your lab assays for sex hormones or for any steroid hormone actually."

"I went on this journey to get rid of Teflon in our kitchen because I studied PFCs."