The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Dr. Shahin Ghadir Pt. 2 On How To Increase Fertility, When To Freeze Eggs & Sperm, & How To Explore Options For Family Planning

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

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The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to The Skinny Confidential, him and her.

So a single female who's worried about having a child in the future, anyone who is 30 years or older is my number. I think if you do it in your 20s, you're absolutely amazing and better to do that. That's the time to do it. Now, if you have a kid and you want more kids, if you are in a relationship with someone and you have no kids, but you know you want to have kids, that's when you make your embryo. We take the egg, put it with the sperm, we let it grow. We're able to, once it gets to a certain level, then actually do additional testing,

which is called genetic testing or pre-implantation genetic testing. Know which ones are genetically normal, and then we have those saved for you for the future. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. That clip was from our guest of the show today, Dr. Shaheen Ghadir, our friend and now colleague at Dear Media with a new show, The Fertile Life. Back for the second time, Dr. Ghadir, we love him. He is always fun. And we've actually become like great friends. We've become great friends. And I just read his bio and I'm laughing and it says he's a compassionate and caring physician, which he totally is. And you guys have to check him out, especially if you're looking to freeze your eggs or embryos or just jack your meat and freeze your sperm, guys. But he's not only caring and compassionate, he is funny.

I mean, for what he does, he is literally at the top of his game, at the top of his field. He is a renowned doctor. And I'm going to give his bio in a minute and it's going to tongue twist me like 80 times. But outside of that, we have a blast with Dr. Gidear. He is funny. We laugh. I think, Lauren, I think you're probably the only person that's ever referred to giving a sperm sample as jacking your meat. I think you said that in the show. No, I said beating your meat. And he thought it was so cute. He wants to make sweaters that say beating your meat. Yeah. I don't know what you two are up to, but that sounds about right. I have so much respect for him in this space. He helps people overcome reproductive and infertility issues. And I have heard from so many people and through his

staff that he has helped so many people get pregnant. He's really incredible. He's quick. He's to the point. He knows his shit. You'll hear this in this episode. And we went super general the first episode with him. But in this episode, we get really, really granular. Yeah. No. And he, like I said, he knows this shit. So let me introduce Dr. Shaheen Ghadir. Dr. Ghadir, I'm going to fuck this up because this is a mouthful. Hold on. A mouthful? Hold on. Before you say your mouthful, Michael, I have something to say. You can't say mouthful on a fertility podcast. But first, let me tell you guys something. He has offered to do a giveaway. This is a different giveaway. He has offered to consult one of you on freezing your

eggs or freezing embryos or beating your meat guys. All you have to do to win this 20 minute consultation with him. It's a private consultation. You and him can do it on the phone with no one listening. You can ask him all the questions. All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest Instagram at Lauren Bostic and follow at Dr. Shaheen Ghadir on Instagram and follow his new podcast at the Fertile Life Podcast, which just signed with Dear Media. That's true. And Lauren, I'm really like now I'm even more stressed that you interrupted me because I was in a good mental place to give him an introduction, but now I'm probably going to butcher it again. I know it's weird for you to be interrupted. I've been interrupted throughout the whole 4,500 episodes. How dare you imply that I interrupted

you? Okay, here we go. Dr. Gidear, as a founding partner of Southern California Reproductive Center, Dr. Gidear is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. So obviously this guy knows his shit. I can't believe I just got through that. Dr. Gadir, welcome back to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her Show for the second time. That was a mouthful. This is the Skinny Confidential, him and her. I want to have a little bit of an intervention with you about the eyebrows. I like... I knew you were going to gang up on me. Dr. Gaddir brushes his eyebrows up because it

pulls the face up. So what you're doing every day is you're doing sad brow. It's called tadpole brow. No, Lauren. What it's called is my, I'm getting old and weathered and stressed and my face is falling off. Your eyebrows are falling over your eyes. I can't see your eyes. You look like one of those dogs that have like the stuff

covering their eyes. Dr. Jason Diamond, if you're listening to this, please come help me. No, just, will you just tell him to brush his eyebrows out? I'm getting a new face.

Come on, tell him about aesthetics. You know, I think it's a simple thing to do. Whenever I, so I don't do anything. I just brush my hair. I don't even put a drop of gel, nothing anymore. I used it's a simple thing to do. So I don't do anything. I just brush my hair. I don't even put a drop of gel, nothing anymore. I used to do a million things.

And I just take the brush and I just go boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, but you see, you got nice skin in the forehead. You got the brush. No, brush your eyebrows up. It takes two seconds. I don't think it's going to hold. These things got to... He says there's a gel.

That's so funny because my little kids, they have really thick eyebrows. And they know in our family, we brush our eyebrows. Ew, everyone brushes their eyebrows up. It makes you look 20 years younger. My nine-year-old brought her eyebrow brush on vacation. Do you know what's in right now? A Spock brow. I wanted to talk to you guys.

It's the brows that they don't come too far down because then they make you look sad. You cut them at the ends, make them go up, and then brush it up. You have a perfect brow. I think maybe you should just wax them all and tattoo them the way that Lauren wants you to do it. I think that'd be such a great idea. Like a thick, clear brow gel every morning. Okay. You give me the rear.

Maybe I can get a… Do you guys know Jamone Roberts? No. Or Anastasia? Yes. So Anastasia is the one that did my unibrow the first time. And she was amazing. I love her.

We're friends with her. Can she come on the podcast? I'll ask her. Maybe she can come hit me. We can talk. I have before and after pictures of the day I went in. It's scary.

The first time I did Botox was actually on the show. I thought I was having like open heart surgery. I was so scared. Open heart surgery. I was so nervous. You literally-

Being in my 40s and enjoying my unibrow my whole life. Hold on. You go up women's vaginas and take eggs out of their vaginas and you're scary to get your brows waxed? That was the scary one. I mean, after I did it, I'm like, unibrow my whole life. Hold on. You go up women's vaginas and take eggs out of their vaginas and

you're scary to get your brows waxed? That was the scary one. I mean, after I did it, I'm like, why didn't I do this 30 years ago? That was the dumbest thing ever. But yeah, beforehand I was, and she just did it. I can't believe that you were scared of that and you're a doctor. Like that like weirds me out. Like I don't even understand how you could be scared of that when you see blood and needles all day. Yeah, those don't scare me at all. That was scary, but now it's not scary at all. And Anastasia doesn't do the eyebrows all the time. She has been very gracious when times of need have gone to her house and she did it, which I love her for. But Damone Roberts does the eyebrows now, and he is such a good guy. And he's amazing. Intervention. This has actually been on my

to-do list. Thank you guys for ending my day making me feel like shit. I think it's going to make you look great. Thank you. Okay. Okay, add some news. I thought you guys were going to come in here and talk about... Brush your eyebrows up.

Taylor, it's a spoolie on Amazon. Buy it. Get a little brow gel. It's not that hard. It's like you have one big brown tooth that you're not taking care of on your face. Let's get rid of the brown tooth. Are you always this critical of him?

I go slow. I don't do it all at once. Oh, yeah. That's really slow. No, like I would start with like little things. So like the old spice would disappear. And then like the St. Ives apricot scrub. No, Lauren, okay, you're lying.

I never had a St. Ives apricot scrub. I did have the old spice. Everyone had that at one point. I have a question before we get into fertility, just because we have a doctor on the podcast. Well, first, you've been on the podcast before. If you guys haven't listened, go back and listen to this episode. Also, Dr. Ghadir, which we'll get into, is launching a podcast with Dear Media. It's called... The Fertile Life.

And The Fertile Life. You're gonna have some amazing guests on. We're so excited. I'm beyond excited too. But just because I have a doctor on, I want to ask you this. How can I cure? And I'm going to flub the word. Vascovagal. Vasovagal? Yeah. So you pass out for no reason? Every single time I get a shot or an IV, I feel like I'm going to pass out and I do pass out most of the time. So shots and IVs, we ask every single person in our patient if they get vasovagal and that means pass out. So we draw their blood laying down. And when they lay down on the exam bed, we have them bend their knees as well. That brings more blood. You should be very well hydrated before a blood draw. And you have to have someone really, really good that does it. And I've had many people that used

to pass out at the time of blood draws and now are perfectly fine and have no issues whatsoever. A little birdie told me that when you freeze your eggs, you have to get a lot of blood draws and now are perfectly fine and have no issues whatsoever. A little birdie told me that when you freeze your eggs, you have to get a lot of blood draws. Mercedes was just on this podcast and she said it was so annoying how many blood draws she had to get. But you have to do the same thing when you're actually pregnant too, right? There's not a lot of blood draws when you're pregnant. I mean, you get usually a prenatal panel right when you get pregnant and then there's some blood tests at different times during the pregnancy. And then you get an IV when you go into labor, but generally not a lot of blood tests. During the IVF process where you're doing the injections and we're trying to see how

your body is coming along, you do have to do blood tests that tell us how your estrogen level is rising. And those are very informative to the doctor and they do really well giving us information. So there are quite a few blood draws. And then the day of the egg retrieval, when you get your sedation, like really good medicine, that day they do put an IV. Okay. Let me ask you a question since we're on the subject of needles. Who should be freezing their eggs? Let's also talk about people who are married, people who already have children, people who are single, who should be freezing their eggs and why. Little side tangent. Recently in Austin, we have taken up a new hobby and that is taking a little boat out on the lake and watching the bats fly.

But the problem is I get nauseous on any kind of boat, which is a real problem because Michael loves boats. So we have made the ultimate marriage-y compromise because I have relief band. I bring these relief bands anytime we are on a boat and they work. They are the number one FDA cleared anti-nausea wristbands that have been clinically proven to relieve nausea. It's so crazy. It completely prevents nausea or vomiting. I don't feel queasy. It's not that I vomit. I just feel like motion sickness and anxiety, kind of like I'm hungover. You should know that it's 100% drug-free, non-drowsy, and provides all natural relief, which is what I am about, with zero side effects. How it works is it stimulates a nerve in the wrist that travels to

the part of the brain that controls nausea. And then it blocks the signal to your brain that's sending the signal to your stomach to tell you that you're sick. It's the only over-the-counter wearable device and it's used in hospitals. You have to try out the one that I like. It's their newest model. It's called Relief Ban Sport. It's waterproof, which is great when I'm on the boat and it has extended battery life. Okay. So car sickness, seasickness, hangovers, anxiety, pregnancy brings you peace of mind, okay? As the holiday season quickly approaches, there has never been a better time to give the gift of relief and make sure your loved ones are nauseous free. Right now, Relief Band has an exclusive

offer for Skinny Confidential, him and her listeners. You're going to go to reliefband.com and use promo code SKINNY. You'll receive 20% off plus free shipping and a no questions asked 30-day money back guarantee. So head to r-e-l-i-e-f-b-a-n-d.com and use code skinny for 20% off plus free shipping. So freezing of your eggs means just your eggs not combined with sperm, not made into an embryo. If you have no one in your life to give you sperm that you want to have a kid with, then you just freeze your eggs. Just plain eggs. You freeze them for when Mr. Right comes into your life. And at that time, you can use the sperm to make a great embryo. The guy with the right eyebrows.

The right eyebrows. Yeah. a lot of nice things. Like I just like, you know, just good guys. Then you will give them your eggs to make your embryos. So a single female who's worried about having a child in the future, anyone who is 30 years or older is my number. I think if you do it in your twenties, you're absolutely amazing and better to do that. That's the time to do it.

Now, if you have a kid and you want more kids, if you are in a relationship with someone and you have no kids, but you know you want to have kids, that's when you make your embryo. We take the egg, put it with the sperm, we let it grow. We're able to, once it gets to a certain level, then actually do additional testing, which is called genetic testing or pre-implantation genetic testing. Know which ones are genetically normal, and then we have those saved for you for the future. So that's for a baby coming up that you want to have later, whether you have a kid, whether you don't have a kid, but usually that's when there is sperm. Now, if you know you are going to use donor sperm, if you are a lesbian couple, or you know you're not going to

want to do this with a man and you want to do it yourself, then don't freeze your eggs alone. Just make the embryo from the beginning. So you know, which ones are healthy and which ones are good. Let me ask you this, because I don't think, and this obviously we've talked before the second time you come on and everyone go back and listen to the first time. But I, I believe, and I could be wrong, that there's a lot of pressure put on women when it comes to pregnancy, right? It's like, you know, there's a lot, there's very little talk of like what the man can do. And I obviously like we pay a play a much smaller part, but you know, we've spoken in the past, like there's, is there, are there things that men can do, whether it's a workout routine or supplementation or their health routine to actually create healthier sperm?

Yeah. So a healthy, so a lot of sperm generation is genetic. Obviously that plays a big part in it. Absolutely. So men that are very overweight have poorer sperm quality because. So a lot of sperm generation is genetic. Obviously, that plays a big part in it. Absolutely. So men that are very overweight have poorer sperm quality because they have a lot of estrogen in their body, not a lot of testosterone. Testosterone is the fuel, but taking testosterone for steroids and to build muscle, turn off your sperm production. So natural testosterone production in your body is what makes healthy sperm. Being overweight is bad for you. Sm overweight is bad for you. Smoking is horrible for sperm.

Wait, but hold on there. So if men are sitting there like, oh, I have low testosterone, I got to take it. But then they start taking testosterone. You will have zero sperm. So that's, I mean, I think that's something to talk about. So if you have low testosterone, yeah, absolutely. If you have low testosterone

and you want to naturally boost your testosterone, you need to start building muscle mass. Whether it's from cardio or running or whether it's lifting weights, building muscle mass increases your natural testosterone level. If a guy's listening to this podcast and he's single, and I actually have a friend who wants me to ask you this question, should they freeze their sperm right now in this moment? I would, 100%. It is so simple to freeze your sperm. Yeah, all they have to do is beat their meat in the closet.

We already know this. Didn't we trademark that? Yeah, beat the meat in the closet. Get it over with. When you walk into SCRC now, right above the door, it says beat your meat, right? Did you get that sign up there yet? Yeah,.com.

When you started that website, it's really... Your face is on it. We did a little bit of... We fixed the eyebrows on the picture. Yeah, we photoshopped me up. Go to Dr. Gadir's office, beat your meat for two minutes. Taylor, it'll take you 30 seconds.

Save your sperm. And you guys put it in what? Like a refrigerator? No, we send it home with you to put in your freezer. Sometimes I have to answer you the things that you know you want to hear. We have special places... I'll make a pie.

Sperm pie. Oh, Jesus. That sounds disgusting, but let's, okay. We have special freezers, tanks. They're all monitored and they're checked daily. They are in a secure location. Everything about it is completely 100% secure. I have the world's record for using the oldest frozen sperm to make a baby. Is that true? Is that a real, it's a real true thing. How old? 31 and a half years old sperm frozen. So it was a guy that came to the U S from China when he was in his fifties. This is about 30 something years ago with his current wife at that time. They couldn't have kids. They had kids. She passed away. He has old kids, big kids, and he got remarried and he was 88 years old and had frozen sperm from when he

was in his 50s and had come to the US to have kids with his first wife. And they had from that batch with the frozen sperm, three more kids. Was there fossils in it? No, they've had three beautiful kids. When someone feeds their meat and gives you sperm, how many sperms do you typically get? So a normal sperm count per milliliter of ejaculation. So for every like milliliter is really tiny, okay? It's like an eye drop, like it's just the milliliter, has usually 20 million sperm or more in that one. Wow, so you always, like not with the woman,

you don't always get eggs, but with the man, you always get sperm. There are some men that have no sperm and there are some men that don't have the little tubing inside the plumbing, the correct plumbing. And it just keeps generating and it just keeps getting absorbed by the body and it never comes out of you. And the younger you are, the better the egg quality and the better the sperm, correct? Correct. Now, men are very lucky and some men can even make their sperm better. So we're sitting here right now.

That's kind of what I'm asking. Like for the men out there. In 72 to 90 days from this second, Michael, you and I will have new generated sperm that started right now. I love having conversations about you guys' sperm on the podcast. Outside of obviously trying to live healthy and lifting weights.

Like when someone comes to you and you're like, okay, I've identified, you've beat your meat. I've identified your sperm. You're like, hey, there can be some improvements. Is there a supplement routine? Is there a routine that you're putting them on? There are a bunch of things to do.

So weight is really important. Excessive drinking, excessive use of smoking, drugs, all those things are actually really bad for sperm quality. And they've been shown. Marijuana has been shown negative effects on sperm quality. Now, there are so many aspects of sperm quality now that it's, I'm sorry, of marijuana that we're not really sure.

There's not a million studies out there that says like this aspect of it or that could help. We don't know yet. But in general, the studies that were done on general marijuana use showed negativity. Now, also anything that takes the testicular temperature up, there is a reason that they are where they are. And they're not inside your body with your heart

and your kidney and your liver and stuff like that. They are hanging there because the testicles have to be cooler than the rest of the body. So anything you do that takes testicular temperature up, like if you work in a dry cleaners or if you are a chef and you're cooking by the stove all day or anything that takes the temperature up is bad.

Even excessive amounts of spinning and cycling, that's kind of bad too. So they want to be cold. They need to be cooler than the rest of your body. I'm going to put your balls in my ice bath. That's good. Good thing you have that ice roller. But no, this, I mean... Yeah, I'll ice roll your balls.

Who are you talking to? I'm talking to Michael. I'm an ice roller. It depends if it gets rough. She might be talking to you. Wait, I actually have a very specific question that we did not answer on the last talk. Wait, but hold on.

Last thing though. For supplementation, do you say like, okay, there's supplements? There are supplements. So for men, CoQ10, which is coenzyme Q10, the strongest antioxidant available in the world, the purest form of it, which is called ubiquinol, which is the best absorbed,

has been shown to help women when they take 600 milligrams a day, slow down the aging of all the cells of their body, including the cells of their eggs. 200 milligrams a day has shown to reduce the oxidative damage to sperm. So men can take one CoQ10 a day, 200 milligrams in the ubiquinol formulation. What's your favorite brand? I love the brand called Naturally Smart for Men. I think the pharmacy that carries it and does it, they checked a lot of things. It's not cheap.

It's expensive everywhere. But like the one at Costco, they don't necessarily have a ubiquinol formulation. And that's the only one that studies showed improvement with, not just the regular CoQ10. By the way, Thorne, sorry to trip you, but I think it's important. I know you want to discuss your sperm,

but I have other things on my mind. Okay. How much is it to freeze your sperm, freeze your eggs, freeze embryos? It's a really good question. And you're asking the person that's really bad with prices. Give us rough. I'll give you rough ideas. So I did a call last week with a company, a new company called Legacy. And all they're going to be doing is freezing sperm for men for the rest of their life. And it's going to be huge. And they're going to be doing it very reasonable. And I was very impressed. I was talking to the founder and CEO of the company and going to be hopefully getting

involved and help them and give them advice if I can. So I'm excited about that. So I will definitely look out for them. So to come to our clinic and freeze your sperm, because there's lots of protocols and a lot involved, and you have to have an STD panel that's negative before we will accept your sperm and put them in our freezers. Taylor, you won't be accepted.

Zing. Poor Taylor. It's going to be probably something around with the STD panel, the freezing, and some storage fees, something around probably $1,000. Every single person that's a guy that I am friends with, I'm going to be so annoying about them freezing their sperm. Weston's freezing his sperm.

Because these days, it's like about $1,000 to go out on the town one night. I mean, it's just like getting a table and getting a bottle and doing all those things that were not my thing when my generation. That's kind of how much it is. So it's crazy. And people should prioritize. One vial of sperm frozen at a younger age, and you don't know what's going to happen to you. God forbid, you don't know who's going to get a cancer and need a chemotherapy to start within like a day or two, and who's going to get an accident and a lot of things that can happen

to your testicles and affect things. That's why it's really safe to do it, especially since the collection process is really easy. Now, egg freezing, we've had specials this year that got it down to $6,400, which is probably the lowest I've ever seen for a reputable, excellent clinic. Normally, it's around $8,000 plus the medications. So if you wait till you're 40 years old and want to freeze your eggs, you're going to need a lot of medication. And that's going to be between $5,000 or $6,000 worth. If you do it when you're young and healthy, you don't need as much medication. It's a little bit of medicine that takes you a really long way because your body makes the eggs really easily.

You know what's a little hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Michael Bostic? What? A little manscaped. That's not a hint that you just literally just said what it was. It's so important this holiday season to trim your tree. I've been trimming. If you want your tree to look way bigger this year and you want it to stand tall, then you need to trim your tree.

And that is why a Manscaped is here. I just got to give a hot tip than us opening the toilet and having all your shavings in there. So make sure you get rid of the shavings after you use your Manscaped lawnmower. That is what it's called, you guys, the Lawnmower 4.0 Trimmer. It features a cutting edge ceramic blade to reduce grooming accidents. Thank God. And no blood anywhere because that's a big thing with the previous. There's something you don't know about us, Lauren. Sometimes these things, they can give you a nick, but not Manscaped. That thing, you're going to keep it clean. You're going to keep it precise. You're not going to worry about getting nicked. You're not going to be bleeding and getting hair all over the toilet. It's going to be nice and clean.

You know what I'm getting our producer, Taylor Michael? Let me guess. He needs a weed whacker to chop the worst of his weeds. He has weeds coming out of his nose and his pants. Yeah, he's a pretty much, he's a weed whack guy. Michael's more of a lawnmower. Taylor needs a weed whacker. And they also have the crop preserver. This is a ball deodorant that I feel like every single guy on the planet needs to look up.

Your balls are really nasty when they sweat. Sorry, guys. You're having a rough time getting through this one. Sorry, Manscaped. I mean, these are great names. I hate to break it to you guys, but every single guy on the planet needs ball deodorant. I just want to tell you those sweaty things, they're in your underwear. It's fucking nasty. And let me tell you something. Let me tell you, Lauren, you deserve an Oscar for getting through that one because I could see she was almost losing it just getting through this read. So guys, check out Manscaped. They are the best. We use them or I use them.

If you're thinking about what's the holiday gift, get your dad, your uncle, your brother, your cousin, your boyfriend, your husband, whatever. You got it. Manscaped. No one likes sweaty, smelly balls. No one likes nose hair hanging out of your nose and no one likes dick hair everywhere. So I am grateful this season for Manscaped. You're going to get 20% off plus free shipping with code skinny at manscaped.com. That's 20% off plus free shipping with code skinny at manscaped.com. Get him the best gift of all from Manscaped. His balls will thank you. And have a dick hair free holiday season. Yeah, I look at it like this. It's not cheap and obviously it's an expense. And so like those numbers might scare some people. But if you say you're 25 years old

and you're like, I want to potentially be able to have kids at 35, like if you spread out that number over 10 years, like amortize it, it's minimal. Listen, you know, I don't like to say it because for someone, $100 may be a lot. Sure. And then for someone, like $30,000 may be nothing. But I think that people

have ways of prioritizing a lot, a lot of employers. Yeah, I think of all the dumb shit we spend money on. I was literally just talking to someone. She's like,

I work at Disney. Disney gives every single employee of theirs $75,000 of fertility coverage for whatever they need to do, I think. And also, so does Netflix. And so does a lot of the tech companies are amazing these days. And we have people calling and saying, like, I had a patient recently froze her eggs three times. She's like, I have the coverage and I want to have as many eggs as possible. So I'd never have

to worry about this again. That's really good advice. I bet there's a lot of people that haven't even looked into their policy to see if they even have that coverage. 100%. So I think let's start, but everyone gets off listening is the first thing you do is you call your HR and you ask what fertility coverage do I have? I don't think people think about that. I don't think, I think you're the first person that's ever told. I've never heard that ever. I don't think a lot of people even think about that. That's a joke. We need a whole podcast episode on that. There's probably a ton of women out there that have any understanding that they may have fertility coverage. There are so many people

that have no idea, no idea whatsoever that they have the coverage. I have had patients of mine that work at Netflix and she's lovely and she's so proactive and she says she walks around

telling people, you have coverage, freeze your eggs and just like at lunch conversation and people just stare at her like, what is she saying? Like, that's how it, she told me it is there.

I want to be friends with her. She's my type. She actually is your type. You'd love her. How much is it to freeze embryo? Thanks for repeating the question, but I did remember that was the third one. I want to make sure because-

So embryos get to be a little bit more expensive because then we have to take the eggs. Then we have to inject the best sperm into the egg. And then we have to let the embryos grow in our incubators for a week. All the embryos that grow beautifully for a week, then get a tiny little biopsy. Then they're frozen. The biopsies go out for genetic testing for the genetic testing company that gives us the chromosomal analysis of how those are. And then after that, we save and freeze all the genetically normal embryos

for whenever they want to use it. So that is going to be, I'm going to say a little bit over $20,000. The older you are, you need more medicine. So again, doing all these things at a younger age is better. Okay. I recently heard the craziest thing, and I want to know your opinion on this. I almost called you to annoy you, but I didn't. I thought I'd save it. I have a girlfriend who was incredibly proactive about freezing her eggs. I think she did it when she was like 28 or 29. And now she's in her 40s. She was 41 and she went back to the clinic to get her eggs because she met her man and she wants to do the whole thing. The eggs were bad. Does that happen a lot?

Bad or expired or what? What does that mean? They didn't take. I don't know the right verbiage. I don't want to say the right wrong verbiage, but they didn't take to her. That is why it's incredibly important to do this at a very good clinic. I talked to someone today.

She was 46 years old. She froze her eggs when she was 37 years old at a very lower to average clinic in la she went to use them and none of them worked either okay so these are the things i tell people you go to a clinic that's just been up and running for like a year or two you're gonna get some inexperienced or reputation things that are actually better for you to have. So that makes a huge, huge difference. Our clinic's been around for over 25 years. Our IVF lab is probably recognized as one of the number one IVF labs in the country. And we've had successes. MJ is a perfect example of someone who froze her eggs and thank God was so open about it.

But she froze her eggs when she was 44 years old and came back and used them when they were 46 and delivered a baby at 47. Wow. So we have had multiple people at the age of 44. Now, is that going to happen for every person? No. So you've got to do this at a good place. So if you have embryos that you have already froze or you're going to plan on doing that, is there a chance that you can, let's say you have, you got, you know, three great embryos. Is there a chance that those embryos won't take? So if you're going to a clinic that discourages you from doing genetic testing on their embryo, that means they're probably not good at doing genetic testing on embryos.

And I would run out of there. If you go to a clinic that tells you, let's freeze your embryos on day three when the majority of embryos look good, because they don't really know how to grow an embryo to day five, which is called the blastocyst full-grown stage, I would run out of there. So we have people telling people, oh, you know, we don't want to damage the eggs, and we don't want want your embryos and it was just better to do it. That's because they do a bad job. If you're a good clinic, you let embryos grow to day five, six, and seven till they get to the blastocyst stage. And you know what you're doing. If the clinic insists on freezing them early, not doing genetic testing and leaving you like in the dark with these, just an embryo without even knowing if it's normal and come back in 10 years. And then you had, you know, abnormal embryo, then they didn't really help you. Did they?

At your amazing clinic, how often do you see people who freeze eggs or embryos and it not happen for them? Is that something that's a daily occurrence? Very, very rarely, but I will be very honest. You know, egg freezing has been around now for a little bit over 10 years. And some of the initial freezings when we were doing the slow freeze, now we do it the fast freeze, which is like a flash freezing. And it's called vitrification. It really improved the process. So if people did it a long time ago, that's another reason sometimes why they have poorer outcomes. So what about if someone wants to get pregnant with their embryo and you implant it? Does it normally work on the first time or does it take a couple of times?

In our clinic, our statistic for an implantation of a genetically tested normal embryo is between 74 and 84% becoming pregnant. That is some of those people, a very small number of them do still have miscarriages because unfortunately even though they're genetically normal you can still have it but it weeds out a lot of chances of miscarriage clear the record with this because someone was telling me this yesterday and i've already talked about this with you off air you can't pick your eye color you can't pick your hair color you can can't pick personality. What can you pick and control? You can pick the direction of your eyebrow growth. Up? Up, but some people accidentally

hit the down button. You can't do any of that. So unless somewhere they're doing it, and I've never read it in the medical literature, I mean, you cannot do any of that stuff. You can't even pick gender. We can tell you the gender of your embryos. And then if you have boys and girls, then you can select which one you want, but you can't pick it. So we can't make you a girl. I've had someone come in like for a girl or a boy, and then they got all the other genders and they got so upset at me. I'm like, I don't make that gender. I reveal to you what genders you made. So people comeenders and they got so upset at me i'm like i don't make that gender i reveal to you what genders you made so people come in and they think like they read something in a in a like on google and they're like okay i want this i want this color hair i want this sex i want this

i want these eyes i want this like that happens well they better go find a partner that looks just like that because that's the only chance they have of getting exactly that well that you know it cannot happen it cannot happen you you can't well that's the other thing i mean like i would not expect to get like no me and lauren i would not expect to get like a six foot eight that's not true the sauce is really tall she is tall but i was like she didn't get your side i warned her she got mine. But she's tall. Listen, I have seen... This is what we're working with. So generally speaking, you have kids that have features of your own.

But all the time we see this, that someone from like short parents suddenly have this tall, stunning, you know, kid that says nothing to do with them. And you're just surprised. You know, it happens. So you're saying Zaz is tall and stunning and Michael's like,

do I need a veto? I am 5'10". And I know a lot of people say that. I am a legitimately 5'10". Pull up a measuring stick. It's true. So that's not that short. I'm 5'10", too. That's a great height. What are you talking about?

I've said that to people and they're like, you're 5'9". Every single guy adds an inch. Actually, I'm going to pull out". I'm like, no way. Every single guy adds an inch. Actually, I'm going to pull out my measuring tape before you guys go. Every single guy adds an inch. I got two friends. To their penis, too. Two friends of mine.

Well, I know. On that, that one's, you know, that one, you got to get a couple like rulers. But I have a couple of friends that are legitimately 5'9". And they run around saying they're 5'10". That's literally you and Dr. Gidear. And I get pissed. Are you talking literally you and Dr. Gidear. And I get pissed. Are you talking about you and Dr. Gidear? I go, you know, I go you sons of bitches are giving the rest

of us real five teners a bad name because you. Anyone that says they're five ten is five nine. I'm almost getting close enough to stand up right now with a tape measure because this is we are five teners. I would bet a thousand dollars that you're both five nine and a half. I promise you. I would fucking bet it. I just had a physical

and I did the whole thing. Wait, they're still measuring your height at this age? Yeah, what's going on? I just had a physical. Wait, are you still going to your pediatrician? Weight, everything.

I did everything. Okay, I'll measure. Don't worry, you guys. I got a new doctor because my old guy, he's retired now. He's done. Okay, we don't need

your whole medical history. Thank you for that. He's gone. Okay, so. He's not gone. Alan Weinberger, he's not gone. I heard. He's on a boat, retired somewhere. need your whole medical history. Thank you for that. He's gone. Okay, so... He's not gone. Alan Weinberger, he's not gone. I heard... He's on a boat, retired somewhere.

It's like, okay. I heard... Great doctor, Cedars guy. I can't wait one day like Dr. Gadir's on a boat and he's retired, guys, bye. No, people will come get you. A yacht with a clinic on it? Yeah.

I like that idea. That's cool. Great. A lot of girls have told me that they go through the process of freezing their eggs and then they don't get enough eggs and so they do it again and then I've heard they don't get enough eggs and they do it again. I had one patient that did it five times. What? She said that I want to make sure that I have a lot of kids. How many eggs did she end

up getting at the end after five times? She had about 50 something. Jesus. Wow. Yeah. You know what's looking nice? What? Your hair. It's kind of looking like mine. Oh my God. The backhanded compliments. They keep on coming. Guys, my hair is looking good because of three things. I have talked about them in depth. Number one is I have been microneedling my scalp. It stimulates hair growth and it is amazing. The other thing that I've been doing is lots of scalp massage. And the last thing I've been doing and I've been talking about this is Nutrafol. This is the supplement to take if you want to restore your hair. I noticed lack of thickness after I had a baby. And I also noticed I had a lot of shedding. And after taking Nutrafol, these two

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So you're not alone. And it happens a lot after pregnancy. You can grow thicker, healthier hair and support our show by going to Nutrafol.com. You're going to enter promo code skinny to save $15 off your first month's subscription. This is their best offer anywhere, and it's only available to US customers for a limited time. Plus, you get free shipping on every order. Get $15 off at Nutrafol.com spelled N-U-T-R-A-F-O-L.com promo code SKINNY. So she really wanted to be smart about it and good for her that she did it so this is the thing if you freeze your eggs older you're gonna have poorer eggs tucked away in my office if you get 25 eggs in one cycle that means you probably did really, really well and you have great egg quality. If you get 25 eggs in

five cycles, five eggs in each cycle, that's not a lot. So your quality of your eggs is completely different than the person that got 25 eggs in one cycle. So your friends who are getting this done and they're making so few eggs, they should be very concerned that with that low count goes also down the quality and that's why they need to be doing this many times but what does that do to the like to the body to the body nothing nothing no there's no long-term effects at all there's no links so we're not giving hormones because we're giving fsh and lh which are triggers of the pituitary gland, which then later give a signal to your ovary and the ovary makes its own estrogen. This is good to clear up.

So we're not injecting you with estrogen and we're not injecting you with progesterone, which are the two main female hormones for making eggs. We are giving you precursors that go to your pituitary gland that trigger your ovary. And that's a big myth that we need to resolve. Yeah, because the first time we had you on, we have a few of our friends that were asked about it.

And a lot of their feedback was like, well, I've heard the hormones. I've heard this is bad. I've heard it's so hard on the body. So let's put these really out there. There are no studies at all that have ever linked any of these treatments for fertility with cancers. Now, you may get a cancer

because you just may be getting a cancer. There are links in studies that have shown women that never carry a pregnancy and ovulate every month of their life have a higher chance of ovarian cancer. So one pregnancy reduces that. Then there's a lot of things that are out there about, you know, when you take my eggs out,

are you taking all my eggs out? We have people that believe that. No. Every month when you release one egg, there's about a thousand other eggs that die off in the process. During the month that we're doing this, we are going to actually try to get some of your additional eggs that you were going to normally die off anyways and recruit those and save them.

The younger you are, the more we're able to recruit, the older you are, the less. Okay. So walk us through the exact process of freezing your eggs. Very, very detailed. Let's pretend this person knows nothing. Like how detailed? Like pulling into 450 North Roxbury Drive?

Sure, why not? You can park there and pay $18 or you can park at the two-hour parking on one block over for free. So you show up at the, the first thing we do these days, our visits used to be all in person for the new consultations.

Now 99% of our consultations are by phone or telemedicine. And I have to say, I think people are much more comfortable not driving 30 minutes, an hour, 20 minutes, looking for parking, coming to my office, and doing this from their office or their home. I just feel I can tell people are more comfortable. So we're on the phone. We usually talk about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on what the topic is and what I'm trying to figure out.

And at that point, after they've done their initial consultation, at the end of the consultation, I will tell them what their next steps are. So what that means is that I will be telling them, like, these are the blood tests you need to do. This is what he needs to do. And then they arrange for them to come in and we can get them in as early as the next morning. As soon as I get diagnostic testing results, I call back and I let them know that this is what happened. This is how your fertility is. You're doing great. You're doing poorly. If we have to add any supplements to try to improve things. And then they start the process with their period. So you figured out your eggs are looking okay and you want to freeze your eggs. You call us the first day of your period.

You will come in on day two, three, or four of your period, do a blood test and an ultrasound. So you do another blood test that's specific to that time of the month. And then you do an ultrasound. And generally speaking, most of the time we put someone on a birth control for a week or two to stop their natural ovulation so we can take over. Once we've taken over the ovulation and we are sure that you're not ovulating that month and your body is just quiet and at rest. Then we start with these daily injections that we teach you to give yourself in your belly. And those are usually 10 to 12 days. Those 10 to 12 days, you will probably come into my office about four times for blood tests and ultrasounds to see how these eggs are coming along. And then you're usually ready after those 12 days of injections to have your eggs come out

about two days later. And that's called the egg retrieval. That happens in our surgery center. There's an IV placed and my anesthesia team gives you a little medicine in that IV. You fall asleep and you wake up and you're done. What do you do? So when you fall asleep and you're kind of in your pap smear position, we put an ultrasound in vaginally and there's a little hole in this ultrasound probe that we go vaginally and the needle goes through there and it's a hollow needle that goes right through your vaginal wall. It's very tiny. You don't have to stitch it or do anything. It goes right into the ovary and then it starts to resect and suction out the eggs that have grown that month. And then it goes through some tubing into a little test tube,

and the test tube gets passed to the lab. And then there's a counter. It says like one, they found another one. So by the end of the case, right then and there, we know how many eggs you have. What is a moment where you're like you get an A-plus for egg freezing? And what's a moment where you're like, you get an A plus for embryos, where you're so happy and the client's happy and everyone's great? I think making something between 20 to 30 eggs is an exceptional good cycle. People that make

20 to 30 eggs get a little bit bloated and a little bit uncomfortable the week after their eggs are out, but they survive. And it's a little uncomfortable, but it's the price you pay for doing really well. Embryos, I mean, I think that if you got, you know, it depends how many kids you want. I mean, if you want six kids and you got three embryos, well, you didn't do that well. If you want one kid and you got three or four genetically normal embryos, you did amazing. And you have a little bit of a stash there in case you change your mind or in case something happens and it doesn't work on a cycle. So I think those are people that have done really well. But everyone needs to know their goal. I have people that call me and say, I want to have three or four kids. I know I need to have a good

number of embryos. I usually tell people it's better to have double the number of embryos than the number of kids you want to have, just to be on the safe side. That's like my general rule. Okay. So what happens and what's the difference between a gay, lesbian, transgender couple? Or is there no differences? So obviously our gay couples, which we have a ton of in our practice, they have to find an egg donor. We have an exclusive agency of our own clinic that provides egg donors that are anonymous to our gay couples because neither gay couple has eggs.

We make embryos for both of them and then we find a surrogate and then they decide if they want to put one embryo from one or one embryo from both of them, both at the same time into the surrogate. So that's called third party reproduction and we do all of that. Our lesbian couples, they have lots of lots more options. There's two sets of ovaries and two sets of uterus and no sperm. So as long as they can get a donor sperm, they have to decide whose eggs it's going to be and who's going to carry. A lot of times we do what's called reciprocal IVF, where we take the eggs of one female, make an embryo, and then implant it into the partner female. So that's a really beautiful thing that everyone's really

involved. And it's, I think, really special and really nice. And I just, right this week, one of my favorite lesbian couples. I know who you're talking about, I think, because that's why I was asking. Oh, well, I don't know who it is, but we'll talk about it later. I don't really talk about my patients to anyone. So one of the people was doing the IVF on them and the other one's going to carry. So they actually both made embryos. They both made embryos, but then they decided once they had the embryos that one of them, one of the embryos from one partner is going to go into the other partner and she's pregnant now carrying her partner's baby. That is really, really cool. You must, you must lay your head

down the pillow and be like, wow, I'm doing cool shit. Yeah. And if people don't want to go to that extent for, but they just, we just do artificial insemination at the time of ovulation and they just get pregnant. What kind of fertility issues are you seeing and how does it make you feel when you have to tell a woman you have severe fertility issues and you can't have a baby? I never really talk that way ever. What's the verbiage? So if someone has done IVF and they did really, really poorly, I think a really good involved discussion afterwards would be that, listen, it's not your fault. It is your genetics. And this is nothing that you ever planned to do. And your eggs are no longer at the level that you

can use to have a baby. But thank God you have really other nice options that you're going to have a beautiful family with. The use of egg donation these days is huge. And we help a lot of our patients that can no longer get pregnant with their own eggs, get pregnant with egg donation. And it's a game changer. I have never had anyone who needed to go to that stage and use an egg donor to get pregnant ever come back to me other than beyond grateful that they learned about it and did it because it's such an unbelievable science that in the past, you just wouldn't have a kid or you'd have to adopt. And now you could actually carry a pregnancy. You can have multiple kids from the same genetics of my favorite subjects. You love it. I love it.

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start at night, check it out. Bliss has so many amazing products. I also love their marshmallow mask. It's super cute and it's so much fun. It smells delicious, feels delicious on the skin. Okay. So when you're stocking them though, check out the Youth Got This Pure Retinol Serum and the Marshmallow Mask. You're going to love both. Gentle ingredients. It's filled with amino acids, peptides, squalene, and antioxidants to nourish. You can shop Bliss's Youth Got This Retinol Serum and Moisturizer at Amazon for 20% off. Go on Amazon, stock it, add it to your cart. I feel like it will get there quickly. I think you're going to love it. Okay. So let's say Michael and I decided, okay, we're going to make embryos. And we make them and we get embryos. Would you tell us to

go have sex naturally and try to have another baby? Or would you be like, Lauren, you already have these eggs that are on ice. Why not use them? Embryos. Embryos. Not eggs. It really depends. So let's say you just made one embryo and you have a kid at home and you want to just save that for when you're like 43, I'd say, okay, that's just one, but that's what you would do. Let's say you make six or seven really good embryos

and you want to have a total of three kids and you have both boys and girl embryos and you already have a girl. So this time maybe you want to go for a boy. I'd say user genetically tested beautiful male embryo to put it back and you make that decision. If you don't want to know genders, we never tell you the gender, by the way, ever. So a lot of times we were talking a lot about gender. I just want people to know there are many people that

just tell me, I don't want to know the gender. I always ask before I tell people, do you want to know the genders you made? So we can do that. So it kind of depends on the overall game plan. And one of the things I always do when I talk to of depends on the overall game plan. And one of the things I always do when I talk to patients is make an overall game plan. My last and final question is, why do you think that you're so good at what you do? Because you are very, very well known in the space. Lance Bass, you just had that announcement. What's the proper verbiage? You helped him make a baby? Yeah, we helped Lance and Michael make a baby. And they're very gracious and open about it and

put it all over their social media. So that's really nice because they showed to people what they can do. And that's a really interesting case. And I cannot wait that they're on my podcast because there were so many rumors that they had tried 10 times and it didn't work. I mean, it's such garbage that people put out there, but I don't want to say that I think I'm good. I want to say that I really care. Yeah. And I think by really caring, it has allowed me to do really well in my field. And I also think I'm very lucky that our lab is amazing and probably, in my opinion, one of the best IVF labs in the entire country. And since the US is at the top of their game with fertility, probably better than any country, probably one of the top labs

in the world. We were rated as a top five in the world recently on a study that came out. So that was very exciting. But I think it's just a complete picture. I have the best nurses I've ever had right now. And my patients adore them. And I love that. And I just like that goes so far. You were talking to my nurse so much more than you're talking to me. And I'm so fortunate that my nurses are so wonderful. My ultrasonographers are amazing. Lots of doctors are there at like six in the morning in the clinic doing all these ultrasounds. And I'm really fortunate. I have some of the best ultrasonographers in the world doing them and giving me the report, which I review. And meanwhile, I'm sitting there talking to patients and listening to them and answering their questions and not having to run from room to room to room to room doing these quick ultrasounds in the morning. So we've kind of put together something that's worked really well for us. You know, an excellent IVF lab, an excellent surgery center, really good staff. And I think it goes a long way to be like empathetic and care about your patient during this process.

It sounds like you have a very seamless operation. I've sort of seen it from afar and it seems like it's a 10. So everyone has to check you out. I want you to sort of pimp, I normally ask, you know, a book, a podcast, a resource that you would recommend. And right now I'm going to ask you what the resources for fertility, which is your podcast. Tell us why you think people should listen to your podcast. What are we going to get? So the podcast is, I think, great. I've really enjoyed, we already have had like seven or eight episodes and,

you know, it's great because it talks about people's emotions during that time. It talks about their life. It talks about everything that was going on in their life. And it's not just their cycle of IVF that they did or their egg freezing. So that's why I love why it's called The Fertile Life. And it's really just about life these days and how fertility affects it and what's important about it. And there's not one person that I can think of that fertility has nothing to do with their life. So that's why it's important. You know, also my Instagram page, I think it's uplifting, it's informative, it gives information.

All of these things together, we've really, really worked hard to make it as informative as possible. I was doing a lot of Instagram Lives during the pandemic and it's kind of gone a little bit slower, but I hope to be able to do more. That's always interesting, getting a chance to talk to really interesting people and people just watching and listening. That's also been very good too.

And some guests that you're having on or you've had on that you can pimp out. I know, didn't you have Sheena on from Vanderpump? Yes. So we had Sheena and she has a beautiful baby. That's great. Molly Sims, who is a huge advocate for fertility and everything she did in her life to safeguard having a family and she never really needed, but that's beautiful. She did amazing. Pusha T and his wife, Ginny, we love them. And they were, she called me one day and said,

I have to talk about what I did. I have to help people. And that was a, I mean, she was amazing and open and honest about everything she did. And I absolutely really loved talking to her. So we've had some great people on. And hopefully we have a list of people that are coming out that are amazing. And I'm so honored to be part of the Dear Media family. I just am praying to wear my Dear Media sweatshirt one of these days. Do they send you one yet? Yeah, but I've been told I can't open it yet.

It's like an official bar mitzvah I have to have before I can wear it or something. Dr. Kadir is going to send you an eyebrow brush. You can send him a sweater. Actually, send him the link for the brow gel. I'm not even joking you. Dr. Kadir, I think you are such an incredible resource for anyone who wants to learn more about fertility. Where can everyone find you on your Instagram? Tell us where you can find

your podcast, all the things. Right. So it's Dr. D.R. Shaheen Gadir, and I'm sure everyone knows how to spell it. And our website, scrcivf.com, it's a brand new website and we're changing a lot of the content and updating it. It has a lot of videos coming out recently. I just did this episode where we filmed answering 20 different topics. And it's all coming out really soon. And a lot of it can just be Googled by Dr. Shaheen Ghadir. The podcast is The Fertile Life. And we'll be on the Dear Media Network very, very soon.

So we're beyond excited about that as well. And I'm doing an Instagram Stories Q&A with you right now. And I also have you featured on my blog, The Skinny Confidential. And not only that, we have another episode with you, which we will leave in the show notes. Got to go back and listen to the first one. Thank you for coming on. You're a rock star.

You guys are the best. Thank you. To win a private consultation session with Dr. Gadir, you can pick his brain about anything and everything when it comes to anything fertility. All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest Instagram at Lauren Bostic and make sure you're following at Dr. Shaheen Ghadir and at the Fertile Life Podcast. With that, we'll see you next time and make sure you listen to part one of this episode. It is episode 334.