Fertility and the Future of Health

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Welcoming a child into your family can be life changing, but for those struggling to get pregnant the process can be emotionally taxing and expensive. Reproductive science is quickly changing, as is society’s approach to the issues around fertility. In this episode, we bring you a conversation from the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, where a handful of medical practitioners and reproductive entrepreneurs discussed the future of fertility with WSJ’s Amy Dockser Marcus. Guests include: sociologist Rene Almeling, Stephen Krawetz, the Associate Director of the CS Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Daisy Robinton, the CEO of Oviva Therapeutics and Angela Stepancic, the founder of Reproductive Village Cryobank. This conversation was recorded before the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Useful Links: See more videos from The WSJ Future of Everything Festival GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health Krawetz Lab at the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development Oviva Therapeutics Reproductive Village Cryobank Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.9	Welcome a child into your family can be life changing. But for those struggling to get pregnant,
0:30.8	the process can be emotionally taxing and enormously expensive. One uncomfortable and invasive test
0:38.0	after another difficult medical procedures and often immense frustration because there's no
0:44.2	guarantee anything will work. But what if there was another way?
0:52.3	From the Wall Street Journal, this is the future of everything. I'm Danny Lewis.
0:59.6	Today, we're bringing you a conversation from our Future of Everything Festival,
1:03.6	where a handful of medical practitioners and reproductive entrepreneurs contemplated the future
1:08.2	of fertility. In this far-ranging discussion that still just scratches the surface of the complex
1:14.2	world of reproductive health, these four experts explain why a focus on fertility could change
1:19.5	the future for all of us. Not just parents and would-be parents, but everyone. That's coming up.
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1:56.7	And now, here's Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Doxer-Marcus, speaking to a panel of experts
2:01.4	from May's Future of Everything Festival. She begins with sociologist Renee Almaling,
2:06.4	the author of Guy Necology, the Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health,
2:10.8	as well as Stephen Crowitz, the Associate Director of the CSMOT Center for Human Growth and Development.
2:16.6	He's studying how sperm can be used to reliably predict future health problems in men
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