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The Food Medic

S10 Ep 10 Everything you need to know about Egg freezing

The Food Medic

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Dr John Kennedy, an O&G doctor who qualified from University College Dublin in 2000.  

He has been working exclusively in fertility medicine since 2013 and is the clinical lead at Thérapie Fertility Clinic, with his expert team who have helped intended parents in Ireland to build their families

This episode covers:
  • Reasons someone might freeze their eggs
  • What is the best age to do it and is there an age cut off?
  • Benefits of freezing embryos over eggs?
  • Success rates with egg freezing
  • Cost of egg freezing
  • What practically happens (stimulation med’s and collection day)
  • Should you check you AMH if you’re considering egg freezing?

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host Dr Hazel.

0:38.9

I'm a medical doctor, nutritionist, PT, author and founder of the Food Medic.

0:43.4

It's our final episode of the season.

0:46.2

I hope you've enjoyed it.

0:48.0

And if you have, please do let us know

0:50.3

by leaving a comment, rating, and a review because it really does help. Today we are

0:55.6

chatting about egg freezing with my very own fertility doctor. For those of you

1:00.7

don't know earlier this year I froze my eggs and shared my journey on social media,

1:05.8

but naturally it opened up a bigger conversation and sparked more questions and I just thought,

1:11.8

let's just dedicate an episode to this and have a big conversation.

1:17.0

If I'm honest I wasn't sure if I should share my experience but going through the process was so eye-opening, emotional, physically challenging

1:25.3

in ways I didn't expect despite my medical background and I wish I knew what to

1:31.9

expect before I started this process.

1:34.0

I also realize I'm extremely privileged to do this out of choice

1:38.0

and that's not lost to me.

1:40.0

I wish the access to fertility treatments was available to everyone and I really have

1:44.1

deep appreciation for people who are going through cycles of this because it's not

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