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

doctor, nutritionist, PT, author and founder of the Food Medic. It's our final episode of the season.

I hope you've enjoyed it. And if you have, please do let us know by leaving a comment rating and a review

because it really does help today we are chatting about egg freezing with my very own fertility

doctor for those of you who don't know earlier this year i froze my eggs and shared my journey on

social media but naturally it opened up a bigger conversation and sparked

more questions and I just thought, let's just dedicate an episode to this and have a big conversation.

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, in ways I didn't expect, despite my medical background.

And I wish I knew what to expect before I started this process.

I also realise I'm extremely privileged to do this at a choice and that's not lost to me.

I wish the access to fertility treatments was

available to everyone and I really have deep appreciation for people who are going through cycles of

this because it's not easy. But I hope that sharing my experience has been helpful and makes

you feel more informed about your own choices and what to expect if you go on this journey yourself.

So today I'm joined by Dr. John Kennedy, an Obz and Gunny doctor who qualified from the University

College Dublin in 2000. He's been working exclusively in fertility medicine since 2013 and is the

clinical lead at therapy fertility clinic with his expert team who have helped intended parents in Ireland to build their families.

I would like to disclose that I paid in full for my own treatment

and was later interviewed by therapy about my experience

so you can find that on their podcast

if you want to hear about my experience from the start to finish.

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