Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

FFP 644 | Does The Pill Lower Ovarian Reserve?

Does the pill lower ovarian reserve? In this episode, Lisa examines a recent clinical commentary on how hormonal contraceptives suppress AMH and antral follicle count (AF

FFP 643 | The Problem With the Day 21 Progesterone Test

Lisa examines why the standard day 21 progesterone test may not accurately reflect luteal phase health — especially when ovulation timing hasn't been confirmed. Drawing o

FFP 642 | Do Perimenopausal Women Really Have Low Estrogen?

Lisa breaks down new research showing perimenopausal estrogen doesn't just decline — nearly half of women in a 1,300-person study saw a significant rise before their fina

FFP 641 | Do Your TTC Clients Know When They're Ovulating? | FAMM Research Series

A new study of nearly 98,000 women trying to conceive found that 41% couldn't identify their fertile window — even among those with "regular" cycles. Lisa breaks down wha

FFP 640 | Pregnant at 40 and Again at 42 | FAMM Practitioner Series | Rachael-Beth Moss

Fertility educator Rachael-Beth Moss shares her journey from painful, unexplained periods to charting her cycle, addressing pregnancy loss, and conceiving naturally at 40

FFP 639 | Blindsided by Depo | FAMM Practitioner Series | Carla Lagunas

Carla Lagunas shares her personal journey through hormonal birth control, including her experience with Depo-Provera and prolonged amenorrhea, and how it led her to ferti

FFP 638 | Sperm DNA Damage and Recurrent Miscarriage

Lisa breaks down a research paper on sperm DNA fragmentation and its link to recurrent first-trimester miscarriage. The study found that most men classified as "normal" u

FFP 637 | Time To Discuss The New WHO Sperm Guidelines

Lisa breaks down the WHO's 2021 update to its semen analysis guidelines — the first revision since 2010. She explains how these reference values are calculated, why the n

FFP 636 | The New PCOS/PMOS Guidelines | What Changed and What's Missing

Lisa reviews the 2023 international PCOS guidelines that preceded the recent PCOS-to-PMOS name change. She covers key updates including AMH testing as an ultrasound alter

FFP 635 | New Research: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Ovarian Reserve

New research links persistent organic pollutants to lower ovarian reserve — even when AMH looks normal. Lisa breaks down the study's findings on legacy chemicals, the "co

FFP 634 | Are Everyday Chemicals Disrupting Your Menstrual Cycle?

In this episode, Lisa breaks down findings from a recent review paper on how endocrine disrupting chemicals like BPA, phthalates, PFAS, and PCBs may be linked to menstrua

FFP 633 | Is Your Period Draining Your Iron Stores?

Lisa examines a recent review paper on iron deficiency in women, covering the role of heavy menstrual bleeding, updated ferritin reference ranges, and why non-anemic iron

FFP 632 | Can Your Period Predict Heart Disease?

In this episode, Lisa reviews a landmark 2023 study that followed over 700,000 women across 26 years to examine the association between menstrual cycle characteristics an

FFP 631 | Are You Really Ovulating? | Luteinized Unruptured Follicle Syndrome (LUFS)

In episode 631, Lisa explores luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome (LUFS) — a lesser-known ovulatory dysfunction in which the dominant follicle fails to rupture and re

FFP 630 | Does The Pill Impact Fertility?

In this solo episode, Lisa takes a critical look at two recent studies examining the return of fertility after stopping hormonal contraception, one published in 2020 and

FFP 629 | Is Eating Liver More Effective Than Supplementation?

Lisa examines a peer-reviewed study that tracked liver consumption and vitamin A status in young children from an impoverished South African community — and what the find

FFP 628 | The Nutrient Gaps Behind Female Infertility

In this solo episode, Lisa breaks down the findings of a large cross-sectional study analyzing nutrient intake data from just under 4,000 women aged 18 to 44, drawn from

FFP 627 | New Research: Women With PCOS Don't Actually Have More "Cysts"

In this episode, Lisa  continues her PCOS series by reviewing a newly published research letter titled "Ovarian Cysts in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome", a cross-sectional ana

FFP 626 | What is Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome? | The New Name for PCOS

In this episode of the Fertility Friday Podcast, Lisa down the landmark renaming of PCOS to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), published officially on May 1

FFP 625 | The Case for Progesterone in Perimenopause | Dr. Jerilynn Prior

In this episode, Lisa welcomes back Dr. Jerilynn Prior, endocrinologist, UBC Professor Emerita, and founder of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMC