Egg Sharing with Co-Fertility with Lauren Makler

She woke up with pain in her side and went to the doctor expecting an explanation.  She walked out having been told she might have late-stage ovarian cancer.  What it turned out to be was a rare disease documented in only 154 people on the planet. The next question Lauren Makler asked her doctor was, "Can I freeze my eggs?" The answer was no. They didn't know what caused her disease, and they weren't willing to flood her abdomen with hormones to find out.So her sister froze eggs for her. By some miracle, Lauren kept her ovaries. And the experience of staring down egg donation as her only path forward, she was horrified by what she found.  Her conviction that there must be a better way to grow her family became the seed for Cofertility.Lauren is the co-founder and CEO of Cofertility, a human-first fertility ecosystem that lets women freeze their eggs for free when they donate half. Today she joins Dr. Susan Fox to talk about why the conventional egg donation model is broken and what egg sharing looks like when done at scale.You'll learn how egg sharing differs from traditional egg donation and why cash compensation, which is tiered by heritage, education, race, and "pedigree" was the first thing that struck Lauren as wrong. We explain that anonymity is unfeasible with companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe. She explains how a single traditional donor's eggs can end up in 25 families and why Cofertility caps at 3 donor cycles.We talk about secondary infertility.And why women in medicine experience infertility at twice the rate of the general public.Finally, we highlight that egg freezing is not an insurance policy but rather an assurance policy. 💻 About Susan Fox: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/aboutTake your 5-Element Fertility Quiz:  http://yourfertilityquiz.com/Detox to De-Stress:  View the FREE Masterclass on the importance of detoxification to prepare for a healthy pregnancy:  https://susanfox1.easywebinar.live/gentle-detoxLearn about our program entitled Your Fertile Health: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/programsSchedule a Fertile Health Assessment: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/your-fertile-health-callLet us journey with you as you navigate your fertile health. Connect with me:🎧 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-youniversity-with-dr-susan-fox/id1592763186 🔊 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08U9QJf...📸 Instagram: @dr.susan.fox💗 Facebook: ...