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into today's episode. This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 568. I'm excited to share

today's episode with you because in today's episode, I have one of our past guests, Dr. Marguerite Dwayne, who is the founder of Facts.

I'll share her bio with you in information a minute. But what I'm excited about is that we actually

touched on a topic that we weren't necessarily planning on,

something that's really important and we haven't really touched on formally in the podcast before. And we ended up spending the first half of our call talking about research and not

just research in the general sense, but the process of getting research to be approved.

And Marguerite talks about some of her challenges, even though she's a medical doctor,

getting research that she has done, actually published in specific journals.

And we talk about some of the politics behind that.

And although I feel like I'm

quite familiar with a lot of that, because I just, you know, spend so much of my time diving

into research studies and I feel like I have a good understanding of that world. When I

talked about it with our fan practitioners, so, you know, I had a call, one of our regular calls

shortly after this interview, a lot of our practitioners

were really surprised and a bit shocked to discover what kind of politics really go on behind

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