Lora Shahine, MD
How to Improve Egg Quality: Top 5 Tips to Boost Fertility & Prevent Miscarriage
Are you looking to enhance your fertility and improve your chances of conception? In this video, I discuss egg quality and its vital role in fertility and pregnancy and share valuable insights with clear explanations.
In this video, I'll cover:
• Understanding the concept of egg quality and its significance in fertility struggles and miscarriage risks.
• Insight into factors affecting egg quality, including age, infertility, and IVF outcomes.
• The role of ovarian reserve testing in assessing egg quality and fertility potential.
• Practical strategies for improving egg quality naturally, including lifestyle modifications and recommended supplements.
• My top warning to consider before embarking on any fertility-enhancing measures.
If you're on a journey to conceive or seeking to optimize your reproductive health, this video is a must-watch. Gain valuable knowledge and actionable tips to empower yourself on your fertility journey. Take control of your fertility and embark on the path toward a healthy pregnancy with expert advice.
▶️ LIFESTYLE OPTIMIZATION FOR FERTILITY: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnoUNrNEfeUa5a6LIgVyWIAYzhdA3jvQ0&si=3RMfj82uQkm0ldcz
▶️ EGG FREEZING & FERTILITY PRESERVATION: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnoUNrNEfeUZKBaWRPvdKveNpPSA-dCT7
▶️ WHY does Fertility Decline and Miscarriage Risk Increase with Age? https://youtu.be/NYZFjzy9Ufg
▶️ Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh on Egg Freezing: https://youtu.be/2_DVwWbPkOQ
▶️ What Tests Actually Predict Your Fertility and Egg Quality? https://youtu.be/bYJWXIY6GHg
▶️ The Truth About Alcohol and Your Fertility: https://youtu.be/ytErsTDWIiY
▶️ Learn Why Sleep is So Important For Fertility: https://youtu.be/PWT_bWuAHZg
▶️ Improving Fertility With Nutrition: https://youtu.be/Lxwv0VLZyEk
▶️ What Can A Woman Eat To Increase Her Chances of Getting Pregnant: https://youtu.be/tBJo9ggmdzA
▶️ What Food To Avoid If Trying To Conceive: https://youtu.be/Ch86VS6yxPE
▶️ Do’s and Don’ts for Fitness During IVF: https://youtu.be/cXPWBRQLO8I
▶️ How Exercise Affects Fertility: https://youtu.be/8IUSj6awa40
🎬 Chapters:
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0:00 Intro to improving egg quality
0:59 What is egg quality & the factors affecting it?
4:22 Why does egg quality matter & Importance of Age?
8:05 5 Ways to Improve Egg Quality
8:20 Tip #1: Limiting Toxins
9:08 Tip #2: Limiting Endocrine Disruptors
10:41 Tip #3: Managing Stress
12:08 Tip #4: Overall Health and Well-being
14:11 Tip #5: Supplements
16:45 No. 1 Warning
18:03 Conclusion
Excellent review articles:
1. Mumford et al. (2018)
Mumford S, et al. 2020). American Journal of Epidemiology, 189(11), 1254–1265. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa073
2. Salas-Huetos et al. (2018)
Salas-Huetos, A, et al. (2017). Human Reproduction Update, 23(4), 371–389. https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmx006
3. Akgün et al. (J Turk Ger Gynecol Assoc. 2023
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10258567/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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if you want to know how to improve your
egg quality either to get pregnant faster or decrease your risk of miscarriage
you're going to want to watch this video we're going to review exactly what
egg quality is and five ways to improve it I'm Dr Laura Shaheen I'm a double board
certified OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist helping people build families for almost 20 years
I love educating be sure and subscribe to this channel chel so you get my weekly videos all about
reproductive Health in this video we're going to be talking all about egg quality it's certainly
a buzzword these days I know there's a lot of content out there about it but I'm going to share
with you exactly what egg quality is and five ways that you can improve your egg quality starting
today be sure and stick around to the end of this video where I give my number one warning to
my patients before they start these five important steps first part of this video what is egg quality
exactly well I mean at its core a good quality egg is able to ovulate fertilize with a sperm turn
into a beautiful blasy or mature embryo implant into the uterine cavity and become a beautiful
baby I mean at the end of the day that is a high quality egg when we're trying to understand egg
quality and teach patients it's hard to narrow it down there's so many different ways to measure
it and think about it but I think about three important ways to talk about egg quality with
my patients number one somebody who is infertile who's having multiple miscarriages we think about
egg quality as being one of the factors that could be leading to this struggle for building your
family number two if my patients are doing IVF we get a little bit of a window into egg quality
because the embryologists are actually seeing the eggs under the microscope and I work with my
embryologist to talk about egg quality and talk about my patients outcomes and they'll sometimes
describe eggs to me so remember egg is a single cell it's mainly water under the microscope it
just looks black and white but my embryologist can really say you know these eggs do not look
like good quality they're dark they're grainy they're full of vacul there's certain ways that
embryologists can communicate with the doctors to say there might be an egg quality issue here
other things with IVF is if you're getting poor outcomes if you're getting fewer eggs than you
expect low fertilization low blasticus formation rate or low number of normal embryos or just
not getting pregnant or having miscarriages if this whole process there's poor outcomes that are
happening with IVF we think about egg quality as being one of the factors there's so many things to
think about and so I'm not saying that if you're having these things it's absolutely egg quality in
your particular case but it's something to think about it's something to talk to your doctor about
and finally number three we think about ovarian reserve testing as a window into egg quality now
this too is absolutely not perfect but we can do ultrasounds looking at anal follicle count we
can do blood tests looking at cycle day three follicle stimulating hormone levels and then the
antim malarian hormone levels or amh levels and listen if you have a below average antal folicle
count for your age if you have a below average amh level for your age or elev FSH level these things
can signal poor egg quality it's not perfect and there are people with horrible test results
that get pregnant without assistance and have a beautiful baby they are not the end all Beall but
when you're talking about egg quality these are three different ways that you can kind of think
about it becoming a part of your discussion with your fertility doctor would you struggling with
infertility or having repeated miscarriages poor outcomes with IVF or embryologist seeing things
under the microscope and finally if you have poor ovarian reserve testing if you have questions
about ovarian reserve testing be sure to watch my video All About fertility testing Basics it's
in my playlist under fertility testing here on YouTube and I hope that information can be helpful
it's a big topic it is absolutely not perfect but it's too much to go into this particular video
this is not black and white it's not perfect but it can all lead into a discussion and help you
ask questions about is egg quality a factor for me and what can I do to improve my egg quality now
that's the second part of this video so before I get to these five tips why does egg quality matter
and what is it exactly well I think about it as the functioning of the genes and specifically the
functioning of chromosomes a poor quality egg is not going to be able to do all the genetic changes
that it needs to in order to fertilize turn into a mature embryo implant and be a baby now remember
our genes are on stacks of Legos I often describe it called chromosomes they look like X's if I
take you back to biology and in every cell in our body we have 23 pairs of chromosomes one copy
comes from the egg that we came from and one copy comes from the sperm that we came from and eggs
are unique in that when we are born we have all the eggs we're going to have and they're frozen in
a genetic State called meiosis 1 I'm not going to go deep into biology class I promise but meiosis
one is basically where there are two copies of each chromosome and the eggs are sitting like
this and it's when we ovulate whether we're 20 or 40 that our eggs have to get rid of half of the
copies of the chromosomes in order to fertilize with sperm that give the other copy and so older
eggs make more mistakes now I have a whole video here on age and fertility where I really do a deep
dive into this and I talk about how eggs and sperm are different and how age is such a huge impact
on fertility time to pregnancy miscarriage risk and more so I want you to understand age I mean
there's so much talk about age and fertility and it really is the age of the eggs of course there
is an age factor for sperm but it's just not as dramatic and I really get into it in that age
and fertility video so we keep hearing about age and it's so frustrating because that's something
that you can't change so this video is to teach you ways that you can improve your egg quality and
you can't turn back the clock as my friend Dr Amy aaz you probably know her as Dr Amy says we can't
Botox our eggs I have a great review with Dr Amy on my podcast the baby or bust fertility podcast I
will link it in the description below but she says that in that interview you can't Botox your eggs
I wish that you could and sort of freeze time like you can freeze muscles in your face to decrease
wrinkles but you can't do that with your eggs that's why people do egg freezing as a option
for fertility preservation someone's not ready to get pregnant but they know that the older their
eggs get the fewer of them are able to do all that genetic work that it takes to become a baby so
people will do stimulation get the eggs out of the body and freeze them so that they can use them
later in life when they're actually ready to get pregnant it's not perfect there's a lot to think
about and goes into thinking about egg freezing but that's all of this information kind of coming
together now I have a playlist here all about egg freezing and at least five videos going into who
should do egg freezing how to think about how to find a clinic and all of this information but
I'm just trying to tie in the importance of age so we can't change age as far as egg quality is
concerned but there's a lot of research coming out that with the processing of going through
meiosis 1 reading DNA reading genes that what we do now as far as impacting the proteins that
are around the DNA the epigenetics the things that are surrounding the genes and what gets
turned on and turned off things that we do today can actually help our DNA work better so that's
what we're going to talk about in the next part of this video five ways you can improve your egg
quality even if you can't turn back the clock and turn back age there are things that you can do
to improve your egg quality let's go over them tip number one limit these toxins tobacco alcohol
marijuana listen the message is out about tobacco smoking this includes vaping will increase poor
egg quality risk increase risk of miscarriage smoking is out a lot of patients give push back
when I talk about marijuana and alcohol I have full videos here really doing a deep dive into
the research I understand it's a part of relaxing for people I understand that some people really
enjoy it but alcohol and marijuana should not be a part of our everyday life and it can absolutely
impact our reproductive Health whether it's eggs or sperm so really thinking about tobacco alcohol
marijuana these are things you could limit at a minimum in order to improve your egg quality
tip number two limit endocrine disruptors so these are different types of toxins and they're
in our home I am talking about BPA or bisphenol a parabens phalates and lots of chemicals that
have been made in the last couple decades and are in our everyday products scents laundry detergent
beauty products Plastics in our kitchen a lot of these everyday products maybe they could be safe
with limited exposure but when you add up all of the things that we're exposed to on an everyday
basis they really can start to impact our overall health and specifically our reproductive Health
limiting processed foods because they're often created using a lot of plastics along the process
not using a plastic water bottle you know every once in a while it's okay I don't want to increase
fear around this I just want to say if you can limit exposure and choose safer products overall
you're going to decrease your exposure and that has been shown to improve your reproductive Health
including egg quality I have lots of information here I have a whole playlist called lifestyle
optimization for fertility and I have videos on phalates and parabens and ways to eliminate toxins
I'm going to put a link in the description below for my ebook on the five ways to get PL plastic
out of your kitchen I really want to help educate you on ways to limit and decrease exposure you
can't eliminate it completely but every little thing that you do can truly help tremendously
tip number three manage stress this is acute stress this is chronic stress I know it's tough to
hear this because then you stress about stressing listen we are all exposed to stress but if we work
on managing stress and coping techniques whatever is right for you taking a walk acupuncture therapy
meditation yoga time for yourself reading whatever it is ways you can manage stress to decrease that
constant exposure to cortisol levels are so much of what we're built on and what we're running
on right now is this fight ORF flight kind of increased nervous system this this constant
stress mode actually helps us function well we can meet deadlines and meet goals in life but
that constant elevated cortisol level really increases inflammation throughout our body and
it can impact our overall health and well-being so we can't eliminate stress but we can manage
it so that we can recover faster and so find ways a little bit every single day journaling is
another option talking to a friend relaxing in the evening you know whatever you need to do to kind
of manage stress find Joy have something to look forward to that can only improve our reproductive
health and our egg quality tip number four think about your overall health and well-being
the things that you're doing like getting sleep focusing on nutrition and thinking about
exercise and moving your body those three things are absolutely amazing for your overall health
and well-being and that will only improve your reproductive Health as well make sleep a priority
I have a whole video here on the importance of sleep impacting our fertility and I've got tips
in that video that help you think about a quiet room planning for bedtime decompressing before
you get into bed and tips and tricks to making sleep a priority nutrition it's so important we've
already talked about the importance of decreasing processed foods as a way to decrease exposure to
Plastics and the endocrine disruptors that are in that process of processing Foods more fruits and
vegetables and a balanced diet just you know find joy that doesn't mean that you can't ever have
ice cream because it's absolutely amazing but if we make more choices towards higher nutrition
you know lowering fast food lowering processed food thinking about a Mediterranean diet I've got
lots of videos here on nutrition and fertility and specifically foods that can improve your fertility
and foods that can actually harm your fertility and and I hope that that can be really helpful
exercise is also extremely important for your overall health and well-being and your egg
quality too many people eliminate exercise because they're afraid of disrupting implantation
or making the embryo fall out and that is not good exercise is important for your mental health
for your physical health you want to modify you don't want to increase your cortisol levels
because you're stressing your body out too much but moving your body in a restorative way is
magical and I've got plenty of videos here on exercise just through fertility as well as during
the IVF process as well I hope they're helpful and number five finally supplements supplements with
antioxidants um something like vitamin A vitamin E co-enzyme Q10 vitamin D can help reproductive
Health every time your cell is working and you're reading DNA if there's a lot of oxidative stress
and free radicals around the DNA as it's being used that can decrease replication and function
of the DNA and all of your cellular processes so in general increasing antioxidants whether
it's through the food that you're eating or through some well chosen supplements it can really
improve your overall reproductive health and your egg quality you've got to talk to your doctor
about the supplements that you're taking you know I talk about this a lot that the supplement
industry is A200 billion dollar industry and most of the money it's spent on marketing not on high
quality ingredients and you don't need to buy the most expensive vitamin or supplement that's out
there you don't need to buy tons of different supplements I talk to my patients about a really
good multivitamin so if someone's getting pregnant it's a prenatal vitamin and if it's the male
partner multivitamin and then vitamin D I think is essential for especially for my patients living
in the Pacific Northwest I practice in Seattle and so many people are vitamin D deficient and then
the only extra antioxidant which is not in most multivitamins or prenal vitamins is co-enzyme Q10
and that can be really helpful and DNA replication and use of cellular functions and that's exactly
what the egg is doing to be careful when you are trying to find supplements and I've got some
videos here on how to find a good prenatal vitamin and how to find a safer supplement but
absolutely Ely talk to your doctor first before you take anything and always review with your
doctor when they ask you about medications that you're taking don't just include prescription
medications include the supplements as well because it's really important to communicate about
this I've got a lot of resources here with a deep dive into almost every topic that I just went
over look at my playlist on lifestyle optimization for fertility and you will find information on
finding safer supplements on sleep on exercise marijuana and egg quality alcohol impact on
fertility in women so much information I really hope that those resources will help you and in
each video I have references to the resources that are mentioned and I talk about the studies so I
hope that that could be helpful now the number one warning that I have for you just like I have for
all of my patients before they start to implement these five ways to improve egg quality is don't
lose joy in the process so much of fertility and taking back control of fertility because you
feel like you've lost it is elimination like I'll be better I'll be more fertile if I cut out
this and this and this and it starts to become a spiral I am on the 80% plan so if 80% of the time
you can focus on nutrition and getting sleep and exercise and taking your supplements and all the
things that we talked about that is perfection 80% is perfection you have got to enjoy that ice
cream every once in a while oh my gosh if you are going out to celebrate your birthday or a friend's
anniversary you know you're enjoying a dinner out have a glass of wine have a glass of champagne
enjoy your life these things are not meant to restrict and eliminate and take things out of
your life that you enjoy it's just everything in moderation and making more positive and healthy
choices than things that we sometimes enjoy but we know really aren't very good for us I truly
hope that this video is helpful it's one of the number one questions that I get how to improve egg
quality I hope you're taking information away look for links in the description for more information
and certainly run through the rest of the videos here on my YouTube channel because I talk about
this all the time like this video if you learn something comment with questions that you have be
sure and subscribe to this channel so you get my weekly video all about reproductive health and
until then wishing you love luck and pineapples
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I have abortion 2 to 3 weeks now I have sex in 2 weeks can I get pregnant
I have abortion 2 to 3 weeks now but I sex in the 2 week can I get pregnant
I had 2 miscarriages, one at age 36, another at age 39. I am now 41, and I have lost 25 kgs since January just to improve my chances; I also started going to the gym two to three times a week and walk a minimum of 8k steps a day. I try to eat as healthily as possible, I never smoked, and I don't drink. Apparently, my testing results and ovarian reserves are great, at the level of an under-30 woman, but I am losing hope. Maybe all my eggs are rotten, and motherhood isn't for me.
Thank you 🎉
I'm 48 I don't have kids,and it's been three years now in manupause
Plz educate yourself, because if IVF fails doesn’t mean, egg quality is bad. The sperm might be the culprit. Age is a number and some 30 year olds are having trouble conceiving while a friend of mine, being 43 , got pregnant a month after she got married. Lol talking about age!
Madam my wife egg is too poor
Already two time ivf is failed
What can i do
Please help me
How I wish I got this video before my IVF journey. Thank you so much ❤
Thank you for your positive energy doctor. I'm not ready for a baby yet with my boyfriend but this advice is extremely useful for when we are ready 💙
Hello,what help can be given to a woman whose cervix canal has narrowed 😢
I am 37 ang just had miscarriage with embryonic demise. It was my first pregnancy and got me really devastated and frustrated and in grief.
I wish to still improve my egg quality. Thank you for shedding a positive light on this.
If you are 42 years old and your a doctor told you that you have to go to a fertile place. What would you that because they said that your eggs were so bold? Or you're running out of your eggs, can you help me
Is an AMH of 5.4 too high?
As a physician with extensive experience in senior women’s health, I commend this video for tackling egg quality—a critical yet often overlooked factor in fertility. While these tips are invaluable for younger women, I’ve seen in my practice how age-related decline in ovarian reserve can complicate things for women over 40. That said, strategies like optimizing nutrition, reducing oxidative stress, and supporting hormonal balance can still make a difference, even later in life. It’s refreshing to see practical advice aimed at empowering women to take charge of their reproductive health. Well done
Am just confused,,,have done my different text and am 40 Year old
8:25
Not even one supplement suggestion ? 🤭
You can reduce your biological age of the cells by eating organic whole food plant based. diet. My biological age of cells was younger 2 years on vegan diet. I added eggs, diary and fish for 8 months and redone epigenetic test and after two years my biological age matches my chronological age. Now dropped the eggs and diary to reverse the aging of the cells and eating plenty of broccoli, berries and some tempeh (these will make your cells younger).
Secrets of Tea's Women Fertility Tea is a great natural way to support egg quality and hormone balance while trying to conceive. Packed with fertility-boosting herbs, it helps create the best environment for a healthy pregnancy!
If you are an older woman, please contact me. They will give you good advice on how to get pregnant.
Hi first time listening I am 51and have a normal cycle had 4misscages ,just now I'm about to go into menopause and I would like to have a baby already have 3Kids Thank you
DOC, EXPLAIN HOW EXACTLY, EGG QUALITY CAN BE IMPROVED? SCIENTIFIC PROOF!
What kind of supplements to take info please
I have worked nights for most of my adult life and have no plans on changing that in the near future. Have I been setting myself up for low fertility? I have been pregnant before, so I know it’s not impossible but I am getting old!
What would be a general elevated fsh for a woman of 29?
I'm not getting pregnant mam
8:26 Limit Smoking & Alcohol
9:10 limit endocrine disruptors (processed foods)
10:37 manage stress
12:09 Focus on Overall health
14:12 Increasing antioxidants using Supplements
Look ma’am I am sure you are too experienced and have too much knowledge and I am really happy to love educating us about it and thankful. However can you please try and come to the point sooner I mean I would appreciate a doc who tells what it’s without the fluff please. Take it as positive feedback and please work on it. Trust me we are lay men we want to know what we should know and just move on with our lives. Thanks for understanding
I am 41 and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy last December. I can recommend adding royal jelly to your diet. It's a great source of vitamins and minerals that did wonders for my fertility
How much coq10 must i take? Please tell me❤
Mam, im 32 age and my AMH is very low 0.14 can i conceived or increased by supplement or medicines
Dear doctor, is it possible IVF AMH 0.15
Can you do a video on the PQQ supplement?
I had my first ivf cycle. I had 23 eggs retrieved. 18 mature and 8 fertilised. However, only 3 made it to blastocysts on day 6. When it reached day 7, none of them were viable. It was an unsuccessful cycle. Dr asked me to start taking Vitamin D and ActiveQ-50.
I did my first cycle recently. My doctor says absolutely nothing apart from doing a blood test or a scan. No advice, no extra information, nothing! Even when I ask them for advice, they say you can eat anything, take it easy 😅
Thank you for this 🙏 I'm 40 and have 3 kids, and my husband and are trying for a fourth, but of course, we have some general concerns..
Hello Doc. Love your videos and all the info you're providing. My Wife and I are trying to get pregnant but fibroids and fallopian tube scaring (not blockage) are issues. She's 35 now in 2024. We would like to try home insemination. Is this recommended? And what meds or vitamins should she start taking and for how long before we try? Thanks so much.
I took all the different supplements for 3 years and it did not help my unexplained infertility.
"Dr. Shahine, I understand the desire to make an impact on social media, but it's essential to avoid spreading misinformation. As you know, there is currently no proven method to improve egg quality, particularly with advancing age. The only evidence-based option for preserving fertility is egg freezing at a younger age.
It's concerning to see women, especially those in their early 40s facing challenges with conception or miscarriages, being advised to focus on lifestyle changes like the Mediterranean diet, which, while generally healthy, isn't supported by evidence for improving egg quality. It's crucial for us, as board-certified specialists, to provide accurate information and avoid giving false hope. We have a responsibility to guide patients with evidence-based advice, especially in such sensitive matters."
Im 39 bf is 32 and we had 2 miscarriages in 6 months, we cant go past 8 weeks 3 days pregnant pls help.
I have to say this. She is giving me watered down Drew Berrymore vibes. Like I feel like they are related
Start at 8:25
What AN INSIGHTFUL VIDEO! This was so helpful as I’m on my late 30s and desire to be pregnant. Some of these habits I am already doing but I certainly will get rid of the plastics, monitor my eating of processed foods, and incorporate COQ10 into my supplement intake. Thank you!!❤
Where did you get your necklace? It’s so pretty.
What about LH being high on Day 3? Is LH of 7.46 mIU/mL good or bad?