Show 968: Strategies for Overcoming Infertility
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Many couples struggle to conceive. Even healthy young couples may be less likely to have success with conception than is commonly believed. Without using protection of any kind, such a couple might expect to conceive in one cycle out of five. While most healthy couples do manage a pregnancy over the course of a year, many do not.
Problems with Infertility
What are the sources of fertility problems and how can they be addressed? How much does age affect fertility? We discuss the causes and treatment of infertility and the success of medications and in-vitro fertilization.
Find out whether diet, exercise or other lifestyle factors make a difference, and call in your questions about conceiving.
This Week’s Guest
Marc Fritz, MD, is the Charles Hendricks Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, UNC School of Medicine. He is co-author of Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, the most widely read textbook on this field in the world. Dr. Fritz is a past president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:01.9 | And I'm Terry Graydon. |
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| 0:27.7 | Young couples today are waiting longer than their parents did before they start having families. |
| 0:35.3 | Will that make it harder for them to get pregnant? |
| 0:38.2 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graydon. |
| 0:49.1 | Financial concerns and career challenges over the past several years have conspired to discourage couples from |
| 0:56.1 | starting families. Once they reach their 40s and feel more secure, will they have a harder time |
| 1:01.7 | conceiving? What are the causes of infertility and what can be done to overcome it? For decades, |
| 1:07.8 | the focus was on women, but men should also be included in infertility workups. |
| 1:13.2 | Does it make a difference if men wear boxers or briefs? |
| 1:16.3 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Dr. Mark Fritz answers your questions about overcoming infertility. |
| 1:23.9 | First, this news. |
| 1:29.3 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, new research from Sweden suggests a link between cold sores and Alzheimer's disease. |
| 1:38.4 | In two separate studies, researchers examined blood for antibodies to the herpes simplex-1 virus that causes cold sores. |
| 1:46.9 | In the first one, they studied almost 3,500 older people for 11 years. |
| 1:51.8 | Those who showed evidence of reactivated herpes virus infections were about twice as likely |
| 1:57.6 | to develop Alzheimer's as those who did not. |
| 2:00.8 | In a second study, 360 people with |
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