How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females
Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 262 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and |
| 0:12.2 | Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today we are discussing fertility. We will discuss male fertility and female fertility. |
| 0:19.4 | And I should mention that today's discussion is not just for people who are seeking to conceive children or who want to know how their children were conceived, |
| 0:27.4 | but it's really for everybody. And I say that because it is the story of all of us. |
| 0:32.4 | All of us are here because a specialized set of cells called germ cells. |
| 0:37.9 | That is the sperm and the egg. And I'll make it very clear why they're called germ cells a little bit later. |
| 0:42.7 | Has nothing to do with infection. |
| 0:44.7 | But it's because a sperm cell and an egg cell |
| 0:49.3 | arrived at one another either in vivo inside of our mother or in vitro, so called in vitro fertilization, |
| 0:55.6 | and then were implanted into our mother and became us. |
| 0:59.6 | And so understanding the process of how the egg cell and the sperm cell came to be is really the key to understanding how that fertilization process came to be. |
| 1:10.6 | I know everyone's thinking I know how fertilization occurs. It occurs through sexual intercourse and so on. |
| 1:15.1 | And we'll talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:17.2 | But I promise you that if you understand the menstrual cycle and the menstrual cycle in today's conversation |
| 1:23.7 | can best be thought of as a biological cycle that occurs in females that allows the potential for fertilization by the sperm. |
| 1:31.8 | Because that's really what it is. And it's a beautifully orchestrated process that I'll describe to you. |
| 1:36.4 | And I should say all people, males and females should really understand how the menstrual cycle works, how it impacts |
| 1:43.7 | fertilization, but also how it impacts the brain and body, behavior, psychology, et cetera. |
| 1:48.8 | And we will also talk about spermatogenesis, how sperm cells come to be and how they arrive. |
| 1:56.5 | That is how they swim to the egg and the incredible interplay between the biology of the sperm and the biology of the egg |
| 2:05.4 | leads to this incredible thing that we call embryogenesis and the birth of the child. |
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