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Balanced Black Girl

Should You Freeze Your Eggs? Everything You Need to Know About Fertility with Dr. Amanda Adeleye of CCRM [Bonus]

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

#278: How well do you understand fertility?

In this bonus episode, I sit down with Dr. Amanda Adeleye of Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM) to break down the biggest myths about reproductive health, from egg quality to the male factor in fertility. We explore how aging, social stigmas, and today’s political landscape impact fertility choices from our 20s to our 40s.

Whether you're considering egg freezing or just want to take charge of your reproductive health, this conversation is packed with essential insights!


We Also Talk About…

  • The difference between fertility and infertility—and the signs to look for.
  • Common reasons why some people struggle to conceive.
  • How egg quality impacts fertility.
  • The effects of endometriosis on fertility and reproductive health.
  • How to determine if egg-freezing is right for you.
  • What to expect from fertility treatments like IVF.


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CCRM | Visit CCRMivf.com to learn more about fertility preservation.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:10.3

Dr. Amanda, welcome to the show.

0:12.3

Thank you for having me.

0:13.4

I am super excited to have you here to talk more about reproductive health, about fertility,

0:19.1

about your work with CCRM, as well as just helping black women in particular,

0:24.7

kind of take control of our reproductive choices. We have a lot to get into you today.

0:29.5

Yes, we do. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. I would love to start by learning more about your journey

0:35.0

and what got you into reproductive health. What made you

0:38.3

want to focus on this? Yeah. So I grew up in Illinois and I've always loved science.

0:44.4

And you wanted to be a doctor, probably in elementary school. I thought it was probably what I was

0:49.1

going to do. And then I started to kind of see the injustice in women's health, and I just wanted to fix it.

0:58.4

You know, it's just my personality.

0:59.9

I just saw that there was really this imbalance and it was unfair, and so what could I do to help?

1:05.1

And so OBGYN as a field seemed like the best way to do it.

1:09.1

I also dabbled in breast cancer research for a while. I'm

1:12.8

pretty passionate about that as well. You know, so I got through college, went to med school,

1:18.2

was pretty sure I was either going to do OBGYN or possibly general surgery and then specialize

1:24.2

in breast surgery and treating women with breast cancer and ultimately decided on

1:28.5

OB-GYN.

1:29.9

Just because I really love the idea of being able to take care of women and people that identify

1:34.6

as women across the kind of entire spectrum of their lives and really build those relationships.

1:40.3

So then I got to residency.

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