When it comes to the fertility journey, it’s more like a marathon than a sprint. And just like a marathon requires weeks and months of training to run a good race, creating healthy embryos requires preconception training, too. Our goal is not just for you to start the race but to cross the fertility finish line with a baby in your arms. With patience, testing, and the right treatments, you can greatly increase your chances of having a healthy baby.

In this episode, I get more technical with Dr. Beth Taylor from Olive Fertility Centre to talk about the different fertility tests and screenings IVF clinics can provide to assess the quality of your embryos as well as your uterine receptivity (any risk of implantation failure) in order to increase the chances of positive pregnancy and live birth.

IVF treatments have come a long way in the past couple of decades, and it’s important that we educate those on the fertility journey about everything we can offer to give them the best chance of a positive outcome.

We know you want the best for your family and to be made aware of the testing and treatments available to you, so please join us to learn about your options and why preimplantation genetic testing and uterine biopsies might be a choice for you to help grow your family.  

Key Topics/Takeaways:

• Nourishing the “seed and the soil” [2:55]
• Using PGT-A testing to increase implantation odds [9:56]
• The mosaic embryo dilemma [17:00]
• How self-correction in Chinese medicine applies to IVF [19:44]
• Creating healthy embryos is a marathon, not a sprint [22:48]
• Testing uterine receptivity [27:17] 
• The importance of the uterine microbiome [37:31]
• Keeping your embryos safe during testing [50:01]

 

Dr. Taylor is an infertility specialist. She is a co-founder and co-director of Olive Fertility Centre in Vancouver BC where Acubalance Wellness Centre offers IVFacupuncture onsite.

After completing her medical degree at Dalhousie University in 1998, Dr. Taylor MD, FRCSC moved to British Columbia to do her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She subsequently completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and then joined Genesis Fertility Centre. Dr. Taylor worked at Genesis Fertility Centre until 2013, when she helped establish the Olive Fertility Centre.

She is a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC. She is also an active staff member at BC Women’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Taylor has also published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written three book chapters.

Dr. Taylor loves the challenge and science of IVF for people struggling to conceive. She likes to try new ideas and new IVF protocols to get the best outcomes for Olive patients. She keeps up to date with the research literature and is open to trying novel procedures to try and solve even the most challenging fertility problems.

Where To Find Dr. Beth Taylor:

Olive Fertility Centre 

Instagram (@olivefertility)

To connect with Lorne Brown online and in person (Vancouver, BC), and to set IVF acupuncture appointments if you are going to Olive IVF clinic, visit: 

Acubalance.ca

Lornebrown.com

 

Conscious hacks and tools to optimize your fertility by Dr. Lorne Brown: https://acubalance.ca/conscious-work/

 

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