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IVF Prep at HealthYouniversity

IVF Prep at HealthYouniversity

By: Dr. Susan Fox
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Welcome to Health Youniversity, the podcast dedicated to helping you reclaim your health, through fertility, pregnancy & postpartum, and what I call PRE-perimenopause (so you don't have to suffer when it arrives) I'm your host, Dr. Susan Fox, a women's health expert with over 24 years of experience in helping people navigate hormonal health from menses to menopause.


If you or someone you love is struggling with fertility challenges, you've found the right place. Whether you're just thinking about "maybe" starting a family or are actively trying to conceive, this podcast is here to provide you with the knowledge, tools, and support you need to turn those dreams into reality.


At Health Youniversity, we'll marry traditional medicine with modern science to help you achieve optimum reproductive health. I'll be joined by experts in the field to share comprehensive solutions that you can apply today. Knowledge is power - that's why education is at the core of Health Youniversity. Tune in to our podcast on iTunes and Spotify, and let's turn your dreams of family into reality. I can't wait to guide you on this empowering path of self-discovery and wellness. Stay tuned for our newest podcast season, coming soon.


Take the fertility quiz: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/fertility-quiz

Schedule a Fertile Health Assessment:
https://www.healthyouniversity.co/programs

Follow on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dr.susan.fox/



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Episodes
  • Healthy Skin for Healthy Hormones with Jodi Scott of Green Goo
    Jun 12 2026

    Jodi Scott was pregnant when she opened her first aid cabinet and started reading the ingredient labels. What she found surprised her. The products people trusted for cuts, burns, and skin irritation contained ingredients she no longer felt comfortable putting on herself or her family.

    So she built Green Goo to prove that plant based first aid works.

    Jodi is the founder of Green Goo, a plant based first aid and herbal wellness company built from family remedies, herbal medicine, and a belief that what we put on our bodies matters as much as what we put in our bodies..

    Today she joins Dr. Susan Fox for a conversation about skin, hormones, inflammation, and why the products sitting in your bathroom may be affecting your whole health and fertility.

    You'll learn:

    • Ingredients like parabens, phthalates, petroleum, and synthetic fragrances are still found in many skincare and first aid products.
    • These chemicals are now being found in follicular fluid, amniotic fluid, and placental tissue.
    • How the skin and nervous system are connected.
    • Why chronic inflammation and high cortisol can affect fertility.
    • Three to four months before conception to reduce toxic exposures to eggs, embryos and fetus.
    • How your skin sends signals that prioritizes survival or reproduction

    If you've cleaned up your diet and supplements but never thought much about your lotion, this episode will make you look at your medicine cabinet a little differently.

    Support your fertility journey with Preconception Plan at Health Youniversity. Learn more here: https://healthyouniversity.co/programs

    💻 About Susan Fox: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/about

    Take your 5-Element Fertility Quiz: http://yourfertilityquiz.com/

    Detox to De-Stress: View the FREE Masterclass on the importance of detoxification to prepare for a healthy pregnancy: https://susanfox1.easywebinar.live/gentle-detox

    Learn about our program entitled Your Fertile Health: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/programs

    Schedule a Fertile Health Assessment: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/your-fertile-health-call

    Let us journey with you as you navigate your fertile health. Connect with me:

    🎧 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-youniversity-with-dr-susan-fox/id1592763186

    🔊 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08U9QJf...

    📸 Instagram: @dr.susan.fox

    💗 Facebook: ...

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    32 mins
  • Egg Sharing with Co-Fertility with Lauren Makler
    Jun 4 2026

    She woke up with pain in her side and went to the doctor expecting an explanation. She walked out having been told she might have late-stage ovarian cancer. What it turned out to be was a rare disease documented in only 154 people on the planet.

    The next question Lauren Makler asked her doctor was, "Can I freeze my eggs?" The answer was no. They didn't know what caused her disease, and they weren't willing to flood her abdomen with hormones to find out.

    So her sister froze eggs for her. By some miracle, Lauren kept her ovaries. And the experience of staring down egg donation as her only path forward, she was horrified by what she found. Her conviction that there must be a better way to grow her family became the seed for Cofertility.

    Lauren is the co-founder and CEO of Cofertility, a human-first fertility ecosystem that lets women freeze their eggs for free when they donate half. Today she joins Dr. Susan Fox to talk about why the conventional egg donation model is broken and what egg sharing looks like when done at scale.

    You'll learn how egg sharing differs from traditional egg donation and why cash compensation, which is tiered by heritage, education, race, and "pedigree" was the first thing that struck Lauren as wrong.

    We explain that anonymity is unfeasible with companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe.

    She explains how a single traditional donor's eggs can end up in 25 families and why Cofertility caps at 3 donor cycles.

    We talk about secondary infertility.

    And why women in medicine experience infertility at twice the rate of the general public.

    Finally, we highlight that egg freezing is not an insurance policy but rather an assurance policy.

    💻 About Susan Fox: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/about

    Take your 5-Element Fertility Quiz: http://yourfertilityquiz.com/

    Detox to De-Stress: View the FREE Masterclass on the importance of detoxification to prepare for a healthy pregnancy: https://susanfox1.easywebinar.live/gentle-detox

    Learn about our program entitled Your Fertile Health: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/programs

    Schedule a Fertile Health Assessment: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/your-fertile-health-call

    Let us journey with you as you navigate your fertile health. Connect with me:

    🎧 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-youniversity-with-dr-susan-fox/id1592763186

    🔊 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08U9QJf...

    📸 Instagram: @dr.susan.fox

    💗 Facebook: ...

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    44 mins
  • Postpartum Hormone Tracking: When? Why? How? with Rose Mackenzie
    May 22 2026

    She had a baby. Then her cycle disappeared — and nobody told her what that actually meant, or when it might come back, or whether she could get pregnant again before it did. Rose McKenzie has spent over a decade helping women understand their hormones in the moments when they feel most invisible: irregular cycles, postpartum, perimenopause. And she'll tell you plainly — the postpartum body is not a mystery. It's a system coming back online. The problem is nobody's watching the data.

    Rose is the clinical manager at Mira and a natural family planning practitioner with more than 10 years of experience helping women use hormone tracking not just for fertility, but for whole-body health awareness. Today she joins Dr. Susan Fox for a conversation about what's actually happening to your hormones after birth — and why tracking them postpartum is one of the most informed things a new mother can do, whether she wants to conceive again, avoid conceiving, or simply understand her own body.

    You'll learn why your hormones don't flip back on like a light switch after birth — and what the slow train analogy actually tells us about your return to cycling, why ovulation can return as early as eight weeks postpartum even while breastfeeding — and why that matters more than whether your period has come back, what the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) actually requires — and why almost everyone gets "kicked out" of it sooner than they expect, why a positive LH surge is not confirmation of ovulation — and what progesterone has to do with it, what "cycle wonky" means and why your first one to four cycles back are not your baseline, what the teeter-totter between prolactin and the body's drive to ovulate looks like on a hormone chart, how intentionally disrupting your nursing pattern — carefully and with support — can help jump-start ovulation for those trying to conceive while still breastfeeding, why tracking postpartum hormones led to two PCOS diagnoses that conventional medicine would have missed entirely, what Mira actually measures and why an LH strip alone doesn't give you the full picture, and why Mira is data — not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan, and not a standalone method for avoiding pregnancy.

    This episode is for you if you've just had a baby and have no idea when your hormones will return or what "normal" even looks like right now, you're breastfeeding and want to understand whether pregnancy is actually possible for you right now, you want to conceive again and aren't sure if your body is hormonally ready, you've been assuming your period has to come back before ovulation does, you're curious about natural family planning and want to understand how hormone tracking fits into it, or you want to stop floating around postpartum and start actually knowing what your body is doing.


    Support your fertility journey with Preconception Plan at Health Youniversity. Learn more here: https://healthyouniversity.co/programs

    💻 About Susan Fox: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/about

    Take your 5-Element Fertility Quiz: http://yourfertilityquiz.com/

    Detox to De-Stress: View the FREE Masterclass on the importance of detoxification to prepare for a healthy pregnancy: https://susanfox1.easywebinar.live/gentle-detox

    Learn about our program entitled Your Fertile Health: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/programs

    Schedule a Fertile Health Assessment: https://www.healthyouniversity.co/your-fertile-health-call

    Let us journey with you as you navigate your fertile health. Connect with me:

    🎧 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-youniversity-with-dr-susan-fox/id1592763186

    🔊 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08U9QJf...

    📸 Instagram: @dr.susan.fox

    💗 Facebook: ...

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    42 mins
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