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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) & It’s Relationship to Metabolic Risk Factors (Obesity, Diabetes, Hair growth and more): Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a health condition that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. Women with PCOS have a hormonal imbalance and metabolism problems that may lead to obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, infertility,…
By Amanda Duberman Jennifer Frappier froze her eggs when she was 36. A few years later, she was still single and thinking seriously about using them to become a single parent. She prepared to buy a house with an unused wedding fund and started browsing sperm donors. She figured she wouldn’t have time for dating…
By Virginia Pelley Valerie Landis was familiar with the process of oocyte cryopreservation, known informally as egg freezing and euphemistically as “fertility preservation.” After all, she’d been working in the women’s health and fertility space for most of her career. She first considered freezing her eggs at 28, but held off to work through a…
By Natalie Gil With the average age of first-time motherhood on the rise in many countries (in the UK it’s currently 28.7 years old), companies are dreaming up increasingly inventive ways to entice women into freezing their eggs to postpone motherhood and gain some control over their so-called “biological clock”. Along with apps, pop-up shops and Instagrammable mobile vans, stories…
New York Times: Putting Their Eggs and Hopes on Ice — These Companies Really, Really, Really Want to Freeze Your Eggs. Egg-freezing clinics are aggressively courting a new generation. Younger millennials are heeding the call. Jennifer Lannon lay, her feet propped in stirrups, on an examining table at Extend Fertility, an egg-freezing clinic in Midtown Manhattan….
Why You Need to Prepare for Anxiety and Disappointment When You Freeze Your Eggs. It’s not just the potential financial hit and physical side effects that can make the procedure trying. How we see the world shapes who we choose to be — and sharing compelling experiences can frame the way we treat each…
Jewish Women Are Freezing Their Eggs More Than Ever — And Think You Should Too By Amy Klein When “Tamar” was 32, her mother suggested she freeze her eggs. Actually, it was her mother’s gynecologist who’d suggested that she tell her daughter to do it. “I flipped out. I really did,” said Tamar, who preferred…
Thanks to high tech advances, 28 is the new 38 when it comes to reproductive anxiety. JESSICA KLEIN 12.03.2017 • 6:30 PM Valerie Landis was 33 when she froze her first set of eggs. “I had not been lucky in love,” she said. A long-term relationship begun in her early twenties had ended in…