GLPs and Fertility: What You Need to Know

The formal recommendation for GLPs leading up to pregnancy or when you're actively pregnancy planning is ideally, you want to stop them two months before you're actively pregnancy planning. The thing about GLPs is they improve fertility in so many ways that are independent to weight loss. They actually improve egg quantity, quality, function, timing, all sorts of things reduce pcos. So people are taking them thinking they can't get pregnant and then they end up getting pregnant. There are no formal studies on pregnant or breastfeeding women on GLPs. And so because of that, medicine says we don't want to do that. Interesting fact is with men, men should actually be off GLPs 90 days before actively trying to get their partner pregnant, as compared to women who are only 60 days, which is pretty fascinating. I presume that's because it takes 90 days for sperm to completely turn over after someone has discontinued breastfeeding when they are postpartum. I think glps can be a great tool to help women rehabilitate their metabolic function, especially if they are in a really bad thyroid place, which is very, very common postpartum. I would have no issues starting GLPs in a postpartum woman who is not nursing.