Podcast: Egg Freezing: Fertility Preservation with Dr. Bat-Sheva Lerner Maslow

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Hi my name is Alisa Minkin I'm a general pediatrician and I'm the chair of the Jowma preventative health committee and I'm here tonight with Dr. Bat-Sheva Lerner Maslow she's double board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology.She's a reproductive endocrinologist and the director of research at extend fertility where she specializes in counseling women about their fertility and options for fertility preservation. She also provides the full spectrum of infertility care at extend fertility and premium health center Dr. Maslow graduated magnum cum laud from Barnard college and with a BA in history before attending the Albert Einstein college of medicine where she received her medical decree. She completed her residency training in obgyn obstetrical and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania and did sub-specialty training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Connecticut where she also completed a master's degree in clinical and translational research. Wow, that is really impressive and I'm so grateful that you're here with me tonight. Thank you for having me. Absolutely! So, we're going to talk about this very specific topic which is fertility preservation and I would love it if you could start explaining how it started, you know who it was for originally, who it is for now, and you know some changes that have been made in the field. Of course! So the concept of fertility preservation has been around for a while, probably several decades and the idea was that we understand there are direct causes that affect people's fertility, both men and women and then there

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1. 0:01Hi my name is Alisa Minkin I'm a general pediatrician and I'm the chair of the…
2. 6:39only could be done at institutions that had an IRB that had a special experimental protocol…
3. 12:55So there's two aspects of fertility that are affected by age we're talking about female fertility.…
4. 19:14you know it gives us a sensation but the eggs produce this hormone in a very…
5. 25:36progress through the 30s the the slope of the decline becomes much more significant. So the…
6. 32:01to be in a circumstance where that that choice is taken away from her. Right. Is…
7. 38:16and on the other hand knowing that if they don't, if they take too long that…
8. 44:31over and over again and so she made this really like strong-willed decision that she was…
9. 50:58you are and how much medication you need and it's going to be at the low…
10. 57:18It's a kind of anesthesia someone might have for a colonoscopy, or an endoscopy, or wisdom…

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