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Egg Freezing vs Embryo Freezing: Why Success Rates Differ — and What That Really Means

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 11, 2026 | Egg Freezing, Guides, IVF, Low AMH

When people research fertility preservation, they are often told that embryo freezing has higher success rates than egg freezing. Sometimes they are also told that modern egg freezing is “almost as good now”. Both statements can be true — and still deeply misleading....

Why AMH Is Not a Measure of Ovarian Reserve — and Should Not Be Used to Predict Fertility

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 11, 2026 | Guides, Hormones, Low AMH

Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is now one of the most commonly used blood tests in fertility care. It is frequently presented as a way to assess ovarian reserve, predict future fertility, estimate time pressure, and guide decisions about egg freezing or IVF. Yet despite...

Food as Fuel and Nourishment: Why Fertility Needs Both

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Nutrition, Ovulation, PCOS, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility

Food as Fuel and Nourishment: Why Fertility Needs Both Food serves two biological purposes. It provides fuel — the energy required to keep the body functioning. And it provides nourishment — the physical materials the body uses to build hormones, mature eggs, support...

When Ovulation Predictor Kits Don’t Work — and Why That Matters

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS

Ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) are often presented as a reliable way to identify fertile days. For some people, they work as expected. For many others — particularly those with PCOS — they create more confusion than clarity. If you’ve used OPKs consistently,...

High AMH and Fertility: What It Signals — and What It Doesn’t

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Hormones, Low AMH, PCOS

Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is often presented as a simple fertility marker: higher is better, lower is worse. For many people, being told they have “high AMH” sounds reassuring — even promising.But AMH does not measure fertility in the way it is often assumed to. It...

Anovulatory Cycles: When Periods Arrive but Ovulation Doesn’t

by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 5, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS, Unexplained Infertility

Many people assume that if a period arrives regularly, ovulation must be happening. It’s a reasonable assumption — and a very common one. But physiologically, bleeding and ovulation are not the same event.An anovulatory cycle is a cycle where bleeding occurs, but...

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