The Science of Egg Freezing with Cofertility Medical Advisor Dr. Meera Shah (REI)
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, your hosts sit down with Dr. Meera Shah - a Reproductive Endocrinologist specializing in infertility, and the medical advisor at Cofertility to dive deep into the science of egg freezing. First, Dr. Shah shares her journey to joining the Cofertility team and how she felt an instant connection with their mission. The three discuss the phases of the menstrual cycle, and the details of what happens within each stage. Dr. Shah discusses how the menstrual cycle relates to egg freezing and the various hormones that play a major role in the egg freezing process, including the Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) & Luteinizing Hormone (LH). They dive into the medications they’re taking, and discuss one of the most important medications of the cycle, the trigger shot. She also shares the details of the actual egg retrieval process, the post-retrieval process, and how they evaluate the number of eggs someone has left. While this episode is super “science-y,” Dr. Shah also explains egg freezing in a non-medical way, and touches on ways to optimize natural fertility. This is such an informative episode for anyone considering egg freezing and Danielle and Jac are so thrilled to have her join the pod for this jam-packed episode!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:17.8 | Happy Friday. Welcome back to the WellMed. Jack and I have such a fun, super-sciencey, which we don't get to do all the time episode for you all, featuring Dr. Mirosha. She is an OBGYN, an infertility specialist, and also sits on the board of co-fertility. |
| 0:40.3 | Yes, Dr. Shaw is just so amazing. |
| 0:44.0 | She's double board certified in OBGYN and reproductive endocrinology. |
| 0:47.8 | And she's a fertility specialist at Nova IVF in a Mountain View, California. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm so pumped about this episode. If I were you, I would get a |
| 0:55.5 | notebook ready, your favorite writing implement, because you're going to want to take notes. |
| 1:01.2 | If you're in this reproductive endocrinology special or unit at school, this is going to be |
| 1:07.5 | amazing. You want to talk period science. Take notes. You are going to pass your next test. |
| 1:13.4 | I know, Dee. I told you that I'm literally going to go back and listen to this episode with a notepad and a pen. |
| 1:19.3 | It was so informative and so helpful for anybody that's going on this journey of egg freezing or just fertility in general. |
| 1:27.0 | And wants to know more about what's happening in their body. |
| 1:30.1 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | Well, okay, so I don't really know if I need to know what more is happening in your body, |
| 1:35.1 | but I just want to know what's happening with you. |
| 1:36.5 | What's going on? |
| 1:38.7 | Actually, right now, Michael and I are on vacation in San Fran, |
| 1:42.4 | where I got to run into and have a special little catch-up |
| 1:47.3 | session with one of our favorite WMet guests, Dr. Shoshana Ungleider, who is doing fantastic |
| 1:54.0 | post-mestectomy and hysterectomy. She's doing great. She's doing really great. She's got a lot of really cool things on |
| 2:03.4 | the horizon for her and with the Endwell project. So I've got to keep an eye out on our girl. |
| 2:11.4 | What about you, Jack? What's going on? Well, we must just, I don't know, maybe we're getting in sync |
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