Eggs take 100 days to mature, sperm about 74 days, so changes you make today affect fertility three months later. Stephanie, author of the Fertility Blueprint, recommends stress reduction, cutting environmental toxins, and supplements like CoQ10 and NAC to improve egg and sperm quality, even for IVF patients with poor results.
Stephanie, you talk about something in your Fertility Blueprint book that I wish every woman and man would hear, and it's the 100-day window. So can you tell us a little bit about what the 100-day window is?
Yes. So eggs take 100 days to mature and sperm takes 74 days. So you have the ability right now, right? If you change your lifestyle and nutrition to affect the eggs, you're going to ovulate or the sperm, right? 3 months later. So for instance, even with— even if you are going through IVF, let's say you had poor egg quality, you didn't get a lot of euploid embryos, whatnot. You have the power through nutrition, lifestyle changes, right, to impact the quality of those eggs. You have 3 months, that 100-day window to really improve that quality. There's so many things that you can do. Like I already mentioned, stress reduction, environmental cleanup, whatnot, addressing all those root causes.. But one thing that made a big difference for me was antioxidants. There is significant research on antioxidants improving egg quality. CoQ10, PQQ, N-acetylcysteine, alpha lipoic acid. I mean, there's lots of them. They're all mentioned in the book. Protocols are all in the book for men and women. So back to miscarriage too. If you're having miscarriages, it could just be that, that, that embryo wasn't chromosomally normal. And so you have it, you know, at least 100 days, but you can certainly— I have some patients who will plan 6 months ahead, right, to really improve the egg and the sperm quality so that they can conceive naturally, or that so by the time they do IVF, they're going to have odds swung in their favor because they've been really working on this.
