Why IVF Isn’t Fixing the Fertility Crisis (and What Actually Will) | Dr. Ann Shippy

Unfortunately, there's this narrative making IVF to be expected. So the way that I'm thinking about IVF these days is the check engine lights on, the body's saying, hey, there's something going on, and then women are encouraged to do IVF. That's like taking a car that has the check engine light on and trying to drive it at 200 miles an hour across the country. One in seven couples is infertile. Sperm counts and sperm health is going down globally.

Historically, even women had babies in their early. 20s. And now, you know, women are delaying it and there's sort of some challenges with that, and that's why we're seeing a lot of women struggling. But you also talk about this idea that it's not your bronological age, but it's your biological age that matters. Dr.

Ann Shippy is a former IBM chemical engineer, functional medicine leader who uses a data-driven approach to help couples conceive healthy babies well into their 40s, even after they've been told IBF is their only option. My oldest patient right now is 47, who got pregnant naturally on the first try. I want to kind of emphasize it because it's generational and what you do now actually could affect your grandchildren. We can't change what genes we actually give to our child, but we can have a dramatic change on how those genes are being dialed up and dialed down.

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