Fertility

What it is

Fertility covers the ability to conceive and carry a pregnancy, and the treatments used when it fails, from ovulation drugs to IVF. It is in the news because birth rates are falling across rich countries, IVF access and cost are political questions, and social media sells supplements and protocols with little behind them. The evidence is clearest for IVF itself, with decades of outcome data; most lifestyle and supplement claims rest on observational studies or none. Unexplained infertility often resolves on its own: in one large study nearly three in four such couples had a baby within two years.

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