IVF
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 5 episodes
BigDeal 
My First Million 
Sourcery 
All-In
10 statements about IVF, every show
Sadeghi: Standard IVF clinics ignore polygenic traits and common diseases
“These are conditions that, generally speaking, are just simply not tested in the clinic today. So let's say you're a couple doing IVF. The first thing that's very well accepted in the IVF context is making sure your child doesn't have any chromosomal abnormali…”
Sadeghi: One in 50 babies born today are conceived via IVF
“I mean, I think the statistic is that one in 50 babies today are born via IVF.”
Sadeghi: Falling IVF and sequencing costs will create genetically optimized children
“And so you're going to see the rapid decrease in cost of IVF combined with the rapid decrease in cost of sequencing A genome. These things are going to converge together to enable this just, this massive, massive new generation of parents having genetically op…”
Dr. Moore: IVF hormonal treatments damage metabolic health and reduce fertility
“That's the problem, is that hormonal load that these women go through is just wreaking havoc on their metabolic health, so they're becoming less and less and less It's fertile through the process of IVF.”
Dr. Moore: Doctors default to treatments tied to specialty and profits
“Because that's their hammer. And that hammer is profitable. It's their hammer, you know, like every, every doctor is going to have their hammer.”
Chamath Palihapitiya: First four children were natural, fifth was via IVF
“My first four kids were natural. My fifth was IVF.”
Friedberg: Skin-cell IVF will allow people to produce offspring at any age
“So in the next couple of years, there's, you know, there's a few little technical breakthroughs that are happening right now that will enable this, where fertility clinics may end up just taking a little bit of your skin cell, creating stem cells, creating egg…”
Andrew Schulz says he and his wife selected their highest-graded embryo during IVF
“We just picked the best”
Puri: Fertillo's egg maturation will revolutionize IVF at fraction of cost
“If true, it's gonna make, you know, it's gonna change IVF. You know, it's gonna make it where, I don't know if it'll just be called a new procedure or what, but basically for, you know, a fraction of the cost, a fraction of the time, and a fraction of the pain…”