Egg Quality, Egg Quantity and Age

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natalie Crawford breaks down everything you need to know about your eggs - how many you have, how good they are, and what age really means for your fertility. She explains the difference between egg quality and quantity, how your ovarian reserve is tested, and practical steps you can take to support your egg health at any age. Key Topics: 1. Understanding Your Egg Supply - The natural decline of eggs from birth through menopause - How the monthly egg release system works in your ovaries - Do you lose eggs even when not ovulating or trying to conceive? 2. Testing Your Fertility Potential - AMH blood test and what it measures in your body - Antral follicle count ultrasound examination process - How these tests relate to your remaining egg supply 3. How Age Affects Your Eggs - The relationship between time and egg quality deterioration - Genetic changes that occur in eggs as you get older - Why pregnancy becomes more difficult after age 35 4. Taking Control of Your Egg Health - Lifestyle factors that influence egg quality - The role of inflammation in reproductive health - How diet, stress, and environmental toxins impact fertility Pre-order Dr. Crawford's debut book, The Fertility Formula, now! ⁠https://www.nataliecrawfordmd.com/book⁠ Want to receive my weekly newsletter? Sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ to receive updates, Q&A, special content, and freebies If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow the podcast to be notified of new episodes every Tuesday. Plus, be sure to follow along on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠@nataliecrawfordmd,⁠⁠⁠⁠ check out Natalie’s YouTube channel Natalie Crawford MD⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you're interested in becoming a patient, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Fora Fertility. Join the Learn at Pinnacle app ⁠to earn FREE CE Credit for listening to this episode! This episode is brought to you by The Pinnacle Podcast Network! Learn more about Pinnacle at learnatpinnacle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You may not realize that you are born with all the eggs that you're ever going to have.
0:04.6	So before you've ever ovulated, you have lost the majority of your eggs.
0:08.8	Everybody will run out of eggs.
0:10.2	Everybody will go into menopause or ovarian failure.
0:13.2	But it's not the running out of eggs that limits most of us from getting pregnant as we age.
0:18.0	It is actually your egg quality.
0:20.3	The longer our eggs have been inside our body, the more that our eggs are absorbing the wear and tear of the world around us.
0:26.6	And those distractions are inflammation. This is why when we think about egg quality and genetics, age is a top component, but it's not the only component.
0:35.6	Everything is reliant on the eggs capacity
0:38.9	for cell division and for normal function. You can't undo age-related changes in the genetics
0:46.0	of your eggs. That's true. But you should absolutely be controlling all of the inflammatory
0:51.5	and metabolic factors that you can so that you can putting forth
0:55.1	the best quality of eggs as possible.
1:00.4	Welcome back to the As a Woman podcast, where we dive into fertility hormones and your
1:04.7	formula for health.
1:05.9	I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and today we're talking about something I get asked about
1:09.7	every single day, your eggs. How many you have, how good they are, and today we're talking about something I get asked about every single day,
1:16.2	your eggs, how many you have, how good they are, and what age really means for your fertility.
1:21.5	In this episode, I'll explain the difference between egg quality and egg quantity, how we evaluate ovarian reserve, and what's really happening as you age, and what you can do and can't
1:26.2	do in order to support your egg health.
1:28.8	If you've ever been confused by AMH, wondered if you have waited too long or felt anxious about
1:34.5	your biologic clock, then this episode is for you. And you can get more information if you are
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