Hello and I'll be speaking with leading experts and familiar faces from the world of

well-being to bring you wellness wisdom you can really trust.

Now this week we are going to be covering an area of women's health

that well we've kind of really yet to dive into on the podcast here

and that's all about fertility and a truly leading expert in this area is Mr. Stuart Lavery, a London-based consultant in

gynaecology and reproductive medicine who I have just had the

great pleasure of chatting to here in my well-being studios. He's just genius. He's a

consultant at the Hammersmith Hospital IVF unit. He is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College Medical

School. He's published over 50, 50 peer-reviewed articles and is the official spokesperson for the British Fertility Society.

And we had a very, very interesting chat all about his journey into reproductive medicine. the first steps for couples struggling to conceive

the ethics of fertility interventions and the surprising role of the microbiome is all about

gut health. It's a truly fascinating

conversation and I'm so looking forward to hearing your thoughts on

Instagram after the show. Now don't forget that if you would like to watch our chat you can now do so you can find the full video

podcasts over on the Lizzo Well-being YouTube channel.

So without further ado, let's get into the episode.

So Stuart, welcome to my other studios.

Thank you. Well, thank you very much for being with us.

Before we get into so many specifics, because it's such a fascinating area,

can you just talk us through your journey and how you came to be doing, what you're doing?

Sure. I've been in the current job for nearly 24 years. Okay. But it's flown by, but I didn't start off in reproductive medicine or in fertility I started off actually

in obstetrics delivering babies and I trained in Africa in mission hospitals

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