The Fertility Formula (feat. Dr. Natalie Crawford)
Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley
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4.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Savannah sits down with Dr. Natalie Crawford, a double board-certified fertility specialist, to talk about what’s really happening when it comes to fertility today and why so many women feel like they’re navigating it without real answers. What starts as a conversation about egg freezing and timing quickly opens into something much deeper, from the emotional weight of infertility to the frustration of feeling dismissed by the medical system.
Dr. Crawford shares both the science and her own personal story, including pregnancy loss and the moment she realized how much women are expected to “wait and see” instead of being given real tools to advocate for their health. Together, they unpack the idea of “failing first” in medicine, why inflammation is at the root of so many fertility challenges, and how everyday choices like sleep, stress, diet, and environmental exposures play a bigger role than most people realize.
They also get into the realities of IVF, the myths we’ve all heard about birth control and fertility, and why this conversation has to include men just as much as women. And for anyone who has ever felt confused, overwhelmed, or alone in this process, this episode is a reminder that you’re not the only one asking these questions.
This is about more than getting pregnant. It’s about understanding your body, advocating for yourself, and having access to information that should have been shared a long time ago.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Unlocked. I am super excited for our guest today because I just |
| 0:07.3 | feel like it's the perfect time for this because I'm going through this in my life. So welcome |
| 0:13.1 | Dr. Natalie Crawford. Thank you so much, Savannah, for having me. Yes, of course. You have done so |
| 0:18.9 | many different things. Obviously, you just released your book, |
| 0:21.7 | The Fertility Formula, which we will speak about, but you are also a double board certified |
| 0:27.5 | fertility doctor, co-founder of Fora Fertility in Austin, and the host of the As a Woman |
| 0:34.7 | podcast with over 5 million downloads. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | That is huge. |
| 0:38.7 | Woman of everything. |
| 0:39.5 | I stay busy, right? |
| 0:40.7 | Yes, exactly. |
| 0:42.4 | So, first off, double board certified fertility doctor. |
| 0:47.3 | Absolutely insane. |
| 0:48.5 | I feel like right now we're at a time to where fertility is being talked about more and more every single day. |
| 0:56.2 | And I feel like we kind of are in a crisis when it comes to fertility from what I see. |
| 1:01.7 | We are. And I'm glad you bring this up because we are living in a time. |
| 1:06.2 | I've been a fertility doctor for more than a decade, which means I went through four years of OBGYN training, |
| 1:11.6 | then three extra years of just fertility and hormones. And when I was going through that training, |
| 1:17.2 | we would say infertility rates are one out of every eight couples. So one out of every eight would have |
| 1:21.7 | infertility. Now in the United States, for couples who are trying to concede for the first time, |
| 1:26.5 | it's one out of every five. That's a huge change and a short amount of time. And then if we want to go one layer deeper, |
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