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Natalie Crawford
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Everything Natalie personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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GLP-1 agonists
"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"
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Human Growth Hormone
"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."
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Biotin
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"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."
Curcumin
negative
"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."
Depo Provera
negative
"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."
NSAIDs
negative
"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."
Teflon
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"I went on this journey to get rid of Teflon in our kitchen because I studied PFCs."
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Clear filters"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."
"We could try Clomid. We could try IUI. We could try surgery. We could try IVF."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."