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Salt is simply another name for sodium chloride. About 40 percent of table salt is made up of sodium, a mineral that the body uses to help regulate blood pressure and maintain the electrochemical balance that neurons need to transmit electrical impulses and muscles need to contract. However, the average American woman consumes more salt […]

IVF with donor eggs is an in vitro fertilization cycle in which donated eggs are used. The process is very similar to an IVF cycle except that donor eggs are mixed with the male partner’s sperm to create embryos for transfer into the female partner. Donor eggs may be supplied by a donor that you

In medical terminology, the term “abortion” can mean a planned termination of a pregnancy or a pregnancy that ends in miscarriage. However, when most people refer to abortion, they mean an induced abortion.  Abortion statistics According to the Guttmacher Institute, an estimated 65.4 percent of abortions were conducted when a woman was 8 weeks pregnant or

Plenty. In fact, heart health and fertility go hand in hand. Men undergoing fertility treatment are often at greater risk of heart disease. It’s difficult to parse out just how fertility and heart disease are interrelated, but it could be that the same behavioral and environmental factors that impact fertility in men also impact heart

Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) is a decrease in the number and quality of the remaining eggs in the ovaries, or a poor response to ovarian stimulation. DOR is one of the major conditions leading to infertility in women. Ovarian aging occurs naturally as women get older, making it more challenging to get pregnant and stay

How is IVF Done—Step by Step? In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the most effective, commonly performed and final infertility treatment in the world. Still, unless you have actually gone through it, most people don’t actually know what’s involved with the steps involved with this assisted reproductive technology (ART). You can consider this your introductory guide.

Via The New York Times & The Broken Brown Egg Even when it ends with a healthy baby, a long struggle to conceive may exact a brutal toll. I recently came across a quotation by Vincent van Gogh, and it triggered something in me. “There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one

While some factors that increase your chance of getting breast cancer are out of your control, such as age and family history, there are some things you can do to decrease your chance of developing invasive breast cancer: Maintain a healthy weight  Having a BMI of 30 or more can increase your chance of developing