What is a woman’s natural biological clock?
When it comes to issues of fertility, it is the age of the egg, not the age of the woman that matters most. Women are born with a finite number of eggs, around 1 million. At puberty, that number has dwindled to 400,000 and subsequently approximately 750 eggs are lost each month. The eggs not only begin to diminish in quantity, but also in quality. The combination of these factors leads to a woman’s fertility beginning to decline in her 20’s and significantly deteriorating after age 35. Read Recent Articles and News Releases about Solutions to the Biological Clock: Oocyte Cryopreservation – Stopping the Biological Clock By Dr. Brad Kolb, Huntington Reproductive Center and Christy Jones, CEO Extend Fertility For decades, sperm and embryos (fertilized eggs) have been successfully frozen for the purposes of fertility preservation and donation for men and couples. Although both sperm and embryo cryopreservation have become commonplace, the freezing of unfertilized oocytes (or eggs) for simi
