The Truth About Egg Freezing

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​ How egg freezing actually works… and what happened for me…
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How and when people are having kids is changing, but our bodies aren’t. As we get older, it can get harder to have kids when we want to. So smart people figured out it’s possible to remove eggs, freeze them, and unfreeze them to use later. They can even fertilize those eggs to make embryos and freeze those. Basically, humans invented cryosleep! … Just for tiny cells.

It’s totally sci-fi – and you need to know about it. This is a level of control over our bodies no species has ever had before. It’s already changing people’s lives – and how our species can reproduce. But there are real concerns about whether it’s worth it. Because let me tell you, the process is not easy.

I’ve been taking medication for two weeks. And at the same time, I’ve been doing research, talking to doctors, and learning as much as I can about the cutting edge of fertility tech. In this video, I’m going to take you behind the scenes into my own process to answer three big questions: Why do egg freezing? How does it actually work? And what is the future here – if this tech keeps getting better – how might egg freezing be huge, if true?

Chapters:
0:00 What is egg freezing?
1:30 Why is egg freezing so popular?
2:55 What is egg quantity?
3:32 What is egg quality?
4:30 Why does egg quality decline with age?
5:59 This is hard to talk about
7:45 Why don’t we have cryosleep yet?
8:46 Why does egg freezing work?
9:28 How does egg freezing work?
10:37 Egg freezing timeline
11:57 My egg freezing process
13:45 Egg freezing side effects
15:13 Egg freezing cost
15:40 Egg freezing success rates
16:49 Why egg freezing is huge if true
18:30 Getting surgery
19:30 Feeling grateful
21:01 🙂

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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
– Frozen in time: How to deep freeze an organ and bring it back to life https://www.science.org/content/article/how-to-deep-freeze-entire-organ-bring-it-back-to-life
– The Near Future of Vitrification of Oocytes and Embryos https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558340/
– Census data on fertility https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/fertility-rates-declined-for-younger-women-increased-for-older-women.html?utm_campaign=20220406msacos1ccstors&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
– U.S. median age for giving birth hits 30, NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/news/motherhood-deferred-us-median-age-giving-birth-hits-30-rcna27827
– The sharp rise in egg freezing, BBC https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220816-the-sharp-rise-in-egg-freezing
– ‘Sobering’ Study Shows Challenges of Egg Freezing, NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/health/egg-freezing-age-pregnancy.html
– “The failed promise of egg freezing,” Vox https://www.vox.com/health/24141538/egg-freezing-cost-age-ivf-fertility-pregnancy
– Female fertility age chart: chances of getting pregnant by age https://ro.co/fertility/female-fertility-age-chart/
– Role of maternal age and pregnancy history in risk of miscarriage study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425455/

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