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Podcast: Get Pregnant Naturally: How to Solve Your Infertility Problems Using Functional Medicine
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Why Your IVF Cycle Was Decided 90 Days Before It Started
Category: Health
Duration: 00:08:35
Publish Date: 2026-03-02 11:00:00
Description:

Most couples do not walk into IVF lightly.

By the time you reach a cycle, you have likely changed your diet, added supplements, tried acupuncture, adjusted your lifestyle, and done everything you were told might help.

And yet, stimulation begins, and the outcome feels underwhelming.

Here's the biological reality: egg and sperm development are influenced during the 90 days before a cycle ever starts. Follicles recruited at stimulation were already developing months earlier. During that window, metabolic signaling, inflammatory load, hormonal communication, and stress physiology quietly set the ceiling for response.

When outcomes disappoint, protocols are often adjusted. Doses increase. Supplements stack. Timelines shorten.

But stimulation does not create egg quality. It recruits what has already been developing.

In this episode, we clarify the difference between preparing for IVF and auditing biological readiness so your next decision is informed, not reactive.

In this episode, you'll learn:

  • Why egg and sperm quality are shaped months before retrieval

  • How metabolic instability and inflammation influence follicle recruitment

  • Why adding support without removing interference often changes very little

  • The difference between execution and systems readiness

  • How a functional systems lens protects time, energy, and future cycles

I'm Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile and host of Get Pregnant Naturally. For over a decade, my team and I have reviewed hundreds of low AMH and failed IVF cases using functional testing alongside conventional fertility care. We specialize in helping couples identify the physiological patterns driving poor outcomes so decisions are grounded in interpretation, not guesswork.

If you've been moving from cycle to cycle without a clear way to evaluate what's actually been addressed, I created a free resource called the Embryo Audit Checklist. It helps you organize past cycles and labs so you can see what's been looked at and what may not have been considered yet. Access it here.
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