Ep 1018 | Former IVF Doctor Blows the Whistle | Guest: Dr. Lauren Rubal

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today, we sit down with Dr. Lauren Rubal, a Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility physician who focuses on fertility, recurrent miscarriage, painful, irregular, or heavy cycles, and menopause through an integrative lens. Instead of taking a bandaid, one-size-fits-all approach, Dr. Rubal views each patient as an entire person - body, mind, and soul - and works to address the root cause of reproductive disorders. But she wasn't always in this field. Dr. Rubal started her career in conventional medicine, and even practiced IVF. What prompted her to leave and start her own practice? How does Integrative Medicine differ from a more typical medical approach? What's so bad about IVF? Is there any such thing as "ethical" IVF? And why is hormonal birth control an ineffective treatment? We address all that and more. Find Dr. Rubal at: https://www.laurenrubalmd.com/ Get your tickets for Share the Arrows: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ --- Timecodes: (01:22) About Dr. Rubal & her practice (05:20) The process of IVF (13:11) Ethics of “donating” sperm (15:15) Egg fertilization & the fate of embryos (20:17) Egg grading & testing (34:55) Embryo transfer process (43:55) Risk of miscarriage (45:10) More ethical IVF? (46:15) Selective reductions (51:11) Why Dr. Rubal left the IVF practice (58:47) Why we need education about fertility (01:04:57) Her integrative approach to health (01:07:25) Where to find Dr. Rubal --- Today's Sponsors: Covenant Eyes — protect you and your family from the things you shouldn't be looking at online. Go to coveyes.com/ALLIE to try it FREE for 30 days! Birch Gold — protect your future with gold. Text 'ALLIE' to 989898 for a free, zero obligation info kit on diversifying and protecting your savings with gold. Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' for free activation! Balance of Nature — Balance of Nature's proprietary blend of 31 fruits and vegetables come in easy to swallow capsules to give your body the nourishment it needs. Go to BalanceofNature.com and use code ALLIE for 35% off. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 976 | Birth Control: What the Media Won’t Tell You https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-976-birth-control-what-the-media-wont-tell-you/id1359249098?i=1000650764644 Ep 959 | Birth Control Is Making Women Bisexual | Guest: Emily Detrick https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-959-birth-control-is-making-women-bisexual-guest/id1359249098?i=1000647441400 Ep 254 | Birth Control, IVF & Surrogacy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-254-birth-control-ivf-surrogacy/id1359249098?i=1000475691301 Ep 695 | Why Children's Rights Trump Adults' Feelings | Guest: Katy Faust https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-695-why-childrens-rights-trump-adults-feelings-guest/id1359249098?i=1000583336623 Ep 554 | IVF, Embryo Adoption, & Surrogacy: Answering the Hard Questions | Guest: Jennifer Lahl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-554-ivf-embryo-adoption-surrogacy-answering-the/id1359249098?i=1000549207733 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Lauren Rubal is a double board certified integrative medicine doctor in OBGYN.
0:07.0	She spent years as a reproductive endocrinology, an infertility physician working with patients through the IVF process.
0:17.0	Eventually she woke up to the ethical and moral issues with IVF
0:23.3	and she opened up her own practice
0:25.7	that helps couples from a holistic standpoint
0:30.6	get pregnant naturally. And today she is going to tell us all of the scientific
0:36.2	medical ins and out of the IVF process she is going to tell us things that you probably did not know goes into the entire procedure the risks associated with it.
0:50.0	There is a lot that she told me that I did not know about this whole process and
0:53.9	what we should be thinking about when it comes to fertility and pregnancy.
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1:03.5	check out this good ranchers dot com code alley. Dr Rubal, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. If you could just tell everyone who you are and what you do.
1:22.0	Absolutely, thank you for having me.
1:24.6	I am an OBGYN who did a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology
1:30.1	and infertility, which is a three-year subspecialty after the four years of OBGM residency, practiced
1:35.8	as a full-scope REI for a number of years.
1:39.4	And as I tell everyone, my biggest career achievement was leaving all of that behind
1:45.0	opening my own practice dedicated to a more restorative reproductive medicine
1:50.7	model and also in the meanwhile completing my integrative medicine to
1:55.9	your fellowship so I'm now double board certified in that plus every juan.
1:59.7	Yes and your story is so fascinating. We talk a lot about IVF on this podcast and that's because it's in the news really more than ever. I feel like a lot of Christians are thinking about reproductive technology in a way that we didn't really think about even five years ago,
2:18.0	surrogacy, IVF, the ethics behind this.
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