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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
negative
"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"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."
"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."
"N-acetylcysteine for endometriosis or chronic inflammatory disease"
"For sperm health, L-carnitine we like a lot. And then zinc and selenium can have benefits as well."
"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."
"Inositol for PCOS decreases insulin resistance huge benefit"