The Fertility Expert: Egg Freezing, Perimenopause & GLP-1s Explained
7/9/202642 min
If you're thinking about egg freezing, IVF, fertility decline, perimenopause, or reproductive health, this is the conversation you need to hear before meeting with your doctor.
In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with Dr. Jamie Grifo, Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at NYU Langone. Dr. Grifo helped modernize IVF as we know it, launched NYU's egg freezing program in 1999, and has spent 40 years giving women the science they were never taught.
Today, he's sharing everything you need to know about your fertility timeline, your hormone shifts, and how to make decisions that are right for you.
You'll learn:
- Why your chance of getting pregnant at 40 is 2-3% a month, not 20%
- The age fertility actually starts to decline (it's earlier than you think)
- The 3 fertility tests every woman should know: FSH, estradiol, and AMH
- What a low AMH really means (and what it doesn't)
- Egg freezing vs. embryo freezing: Which is right for you?
- Why 40% of infertility is male factor, yet women still blame themselves
- What endometriosis and PCOS mean for your fertility
- Why postpartum and perimenopause symptoms are so often confused
- How GLP-1 medications may improve fertility and why they're leading to "Ozempic babies"
- The biggest emotional difference between freezing your eggs early and going through IVF later
If you or someone you love has been carrying questions about fertility, this is the conversation that finally answers them.
If you like this episode, then you will love: The Fertility Expert: Egg Freezing, IVF, and Supplements Explained
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First 90 secondsTamsen Fadal· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome back to the Tamsen Show. So if you are in your late 30s or early 40s and you feel like your body doesn't quite respond the way it used to, you are not imagining it, especially if you've had a baby in the last few years or more than one. A lot of women move from pregnancy to postpartum straight into perimenopause without anyone saying that out loud. So when your sleep is off, your mood feels unpredictable, cycle changes, anxiety spikes, or energy drops, you're left trying to figure out what box you're in. Most doctors don't walk you through that overlap, but today we're gonna change that. Joining me in our Soho studio is Dr. Jamie Grifo. He is a director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at NYU Langone. Dr. Grifo has helped modernize IVF as we know it today, and his work has shaped how doctors understand fertility, hormones, and reproductive aging. And he's here to give us language for what's happening in your body and the confidence to act on it as well. Welcome to the Tamsen Show. Good to see you.
Jamie Grifo· Guest1:08
Good to see you. Thank you.
Tamsen Fadal· Host1:09
Yes, of course.
Jamie Grifo· Guest1:10
It's great to be able to help educate women to understand their bodies and their systems and what goes on. [laughs] It's great.
Tamsen Fadal· Host1:15
I, I feel like there have been so many questions that we have not had answered for decades now.
Jamie Grifo· Guest1:20
Well, unfortunately, we suffer from lack of good science, good studies, and that needs to change, 'cause this generation of women has really let, been left out of, out of, out in the