Told Donor Eggs After Failed IVF? The Gut Pattern Your Clinic Did Not Test

May 25, 2026

Sarah Clark recording Get Pregnant Naturally podcast on gut testing before donor egg decision

The IVF cycle did not work.

Maybe it was a poor response. Maybe it was canceled before retrieval. Maybe you got embryos, and they arrested. Maybe the transfer failed.

Your clinic looked at your numbers and recommended donor eggs.

There is a category of testing your fertility clinic did not run. We rarely run a stool test and find nothing.

This post is about the gut findings we see in women who come to us after failed IVF with a donor egg recommendation, and why these findings change the picture before the next decision.

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Quick Scan: 3 Things You Should Know

Most fertility clinics do not run a stool test before recommending donor eggs. The standard workup measures AMH, FSH, and antral follicle count, and stops there. The gut, the inflammation, and the nutrient absorption are not part of the workup.
H. pylori, parasites, bacterial overgrowth, fungal overgrowth, elevated calprotectin, and elevated zonulin are findings the Fab Fertile team sees across our caseload. They affect iron, B12, and zinc absorption, the three nutrients underneath egg quality, thyroid function, and hormone production.
A donor egg recommendation responds to the outcome of your cycle. It does not investigate what was driving the outcome.

3 Patterns We See

Pattern 1: She has digestive symptoms she stopped connecting to fertility

Bloating after meals, sometimes for years. Gas. Belching. Burning in the upper abdomen, especially when her stomach is empty. Nausea that comes and goes. Feeling full quickly. A history of IBS, IBD, or "gastritis" that someone put her on a PPI for, without testing for an underlying cause. Reflux managed with antacids for years, with no one asking why it was happening.

These are common. They are not normal.

Her clinic asked about her cycle, her partner's semen analysis, and her uterus. Nobody asked about her gut. The bloating and the burning sat in a different folder from her fertility.

H. pylori can also be completely silent. Many women with the infection have no GI symptoms at all. Symptom presence does not confirm infection and symptom absence does not rule it out. That is why we test.

Pattern 2: Her GI Map comes back with H. pylori, often with virulence factors elevated

The GI Map does not just say yes or no on H. pylori.

It also tells us how active the strain is.

H. pylori carries different markers, and some have more effect on the body than others. When those markers show up, the infection is doing more downstream. More inflammation in the gut lining. More effect on the cells that absorb your nutrients. More impact on iron, B12, and zinc absorption.

This is what we see again and again in the women who come to us after a failed IVF. Not just H. pylori. H. pylori with the markers that explain why nutrient absorption is off.

Pattern 3: Her partner has it too

H. pylori has been documented in saliva at high rates in infected patients, and within-family transmission is well-described in the gastroenterology literature. The strength of spousal transmission specifically is still debated, with some studies showing low strain concordance between spouses and others showing within-household transmission.

In our clinical experience, when one partner tests positive on the GI Map, we test the other. We see infections in both partners often enough that partner co-testing is part of how the team works. Working with one partner without the other can leave the gut picture partially addressed.

What We Look At That Your Clinic Did Not

When a woman comes to us after a failed IVF with a donor egg recommendation, we recommend a GI Map stool test on both partners. We also suggest an HTMA, which reads your mineral status over the last three to four months rather than just what is in your blood today. We ask for a full thyroid panel, the iron panel against the fertility target, food sensitivity testing, the vaginal microbiome, semen analysis with DNA fragmentation on him, and bloodwork on both of you.

This is not extra testing. This is what a complete workup looks like before a donor egg decision.

Functional Fertility Approach vs Standard REI Workup

Standard REI Workup	Functional Fertility Approach
AMH, FSH, antral follicle count	AMH, FSH, antral follicle count plus the upstream drivers
TSH alone for thyroid	Full panel: TSH, Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, TPO, TGAb
Ferritin flagged at deficiency cutoff (~15)	Ferritin against fertility target (50+) with full iron panel
Gut not investigated	GI Map stool test on both partners, including H. pylori with virulence factors, parasites, bacterial and fungal overgrowth, calprotectin, zonulin, pancreatic enzymes
Mineral status from blood snapshot	HTMA for tissue mineral status over 3-4 months
Inflammation not measured	hsCRP, calprotectin, immune markers
Male partner: semen analysis	Semen analysis with DNA fragmentation, full bloodwork, GI Map
Vaginal microbiome not tested	Vaginal microbiome panel
Nervous system not connected to fertility	DUTCH with four-point cortisol curve, nervous system work for both partners

We work alongside your medical team, not instead of them. The REI workup is built to measure your numbers. Functional fertility testing investigates what is driving them.

What the Research Says

Six studies worth knowing about before the next decision.

Zonulin and diminished ovarian reserve. A 2023 prospective study in the Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Çelik et al., 224 patients) found zonulin levels were significantly higher in women with diminished ovarian reserve than in women without DOR. Zonulin is the protein that regulates the tight junctions in the intestinal lining. Elevated zonulin is associated with increased intestinal permeability. The authors proposed zonulin as a biomarker in the diagnosis of DOR and discussed autoimmunity and inflammation as the mechanisms connecting gut barrier function to ovarian outcomes.

Crohn's disease and lower AMH. A 2023 case-control study in the Journal of Ovarian Research (Xiang et al.) compared 135 women with Crohn's disease to 878 healthy controls. AMH was significantly lower in the Crohn's group (2.17 vs 3.95 μg/L). Disease activity was an independent risk factor for decreased ovarian reserve. The mechanism the authors discuss is chronic inflammation affecting the ovarian environment. I interviewed Angie Alt about her study with the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP diet) and reversal of IBD symptoms here.

H. pylori and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A 2019 systematic review and meta-analysis of 31 studies (Tang et al., 22,845 participants) found H. pylori infection associated with spontaneous abortion (OR 1.50), preeclampsia (OR 2.51), fetal growth restriction (OR 2.28), gestational diabetes (OR 2.03), and birth defects (OR 1.63).

H. pylori virulence factors and early pregnancy loss in ICSI. A 2011 prospective study in the International Journal of Women's Health (Hajishafiha et al., 187 infertile couples undergoing ICSI) found women infected with CagA-positive H. pylori strains were more likely to experience early pregnancy loss. The sample subset was small, and the confidence interval was wide, so the finding is suggestive rather than definitive, but it is part of why we report virulence factors as part of the gut picture, not just H. pylori status alone.

Genetic causal evidence linking H. pylori to pregnancy outcomes. A 2024 two-sample Mendelian randomization study in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Huang et al.) used anti-H. pylori IgG levels from the Avon Longitudinal Study and outcome data from the FinnGen consortium. Genetically predicted H. pylori exposure was causally associated with increased risk of preeclampsia (OR 1.12) and premature rupture of membranes (OR 1.17). Mendelian randomization reduces confounding because genetic variants are assigned at birth and unrelated to lifestyle factors. The same study did not find a causal effect on miscarriage specifically, which is worth knowing. The observational data on miscarriage is real. The causal evidence is partial.

Genetic causal evidence linking gut microbiota composition to female infertility. A 2023 two-sample Mendelian randomization study in Microorganisms (Zhang et al.) used MiBioGen consortium data on 18,340 individuals. Specific gut microbiota taxa showed causal protective effects on female fertility (Family XIII AD3011 group OR 0.87, Ruminococcaceae NK4A214 group OR 0.85), and others showed causal adverse effects (Betaproteobacteria OR 1.18, Burkholderiales OR 1.18, Candidatus Soleaferrea OR 1.12, Lentisphaerae OR 1.11). This is some of the strongest evidence we have that gut microbiota composition is not just associated with fertility outcomes, but causally connected to them.

The research is not telling you donor eggs are wrong. It is telling you that the gut is part of the fertility picture, that gut barrier function and inflammation are part of the picture, and that none of this is part of a standard REI workup.

Why This Matters Before a Donor Egg Decision

The gut findings above matter because of what they do downstream to the markers your clinic measures.

H. pylori impairs absorption of iron, vitamin B12, and zinc. The mechanism is mucosal damage and altered acid production in the stomach. The result is ferritin reading at 20 ng/mL, with the clinic saying iron is fine, because the lab cutoff begins around 15. Functionally, 20 is low. Iron supports oxygen delivery to your follicles.

B12 supports methylation, the process your body uses to produce the co-factors involved in egg maturation. When H. pylori is present, serum B12 can read in range while functional B12 deficiency is developing. This is why we look at B12 alongside homocysteine, and why we look at the mineral picture through HTMA rather than relying on a one-time serum snapshot.

Zinc supports ovulation and progesterone production. Zinc deficiency is one of the patterns we see most often on HTMA in the women who come to us with low AMH and failed IVF.

When the gut is inflamed, calprotectin and zonulin are elevated, hsCRP often sits above 1, and the systemic inflammatory environment affects ovarian response to stimulation, implantation, and miscarriage risk.

When your clinic looks at a canceled cycle, arrested embryos, or a failed transfer and recommends donor eggs, they are responding to the outcome of your cycle. They are not asking what is driving the outcome.

FAQs

My fertility clinic said my iron is fine. Why are you saying it might not be?

The standard lab range for ferritin begins around 15 ng/mL. That range is built to flag overt iron deficiency anemia. The fertility-relevant target we use is 50 ng/mL or higher. A ferritin of 20 reads normal on the standard range and reads low against the fertility target. Iron supports oxygen delivery to your follicles. If H. pylori is impairing absorption, iron supplementation by itself rarely moves the picture and is part of the conversation to have with your medical team

I do not have any gut symptoms. Why would I have H. pylori?

H. pylori is often silent. Many infected people have no GI symptoms at all. The infection can still affect nutrient absorption and systemic inflammation in the absence of bloating, nausea, or reflux. Testing is what tells us, not symptoms.

Why test my partner if my AMH is the issue?

H. pylori has been documented in saliva at high rates in infected patients. Within-family transmission is described in the gastroenterology literature. In our experience, when one partner tests positive on the GI Map, the other often does too. Addressing one without the other can leave the gut picture partially addressed. We also review his bloodwork, semen analysis with DNA fragmentation, and seminal microbiome as part of the functional fertility second opinion.

I have already done one stool test and nothing came up. Why test again?

We do not run a single stool test in isolation. We run a GI Map alongside food sensitivity testing, the full thyroid panel, the iron panel, HTMA, the vaginal microbiome, and bloodwork on both partners. A stool test interpreted without a fertility context, or without the rest of the picture, often misses what is relevant. The pattern only reads when all of the data is in front of the same set of eyes.

Does this mean donor eggs are off the table?

No. Some women go through a full functional fertility workup and still move to donor eggs. That is a valid path. The point is that the decision gets made after the full picture has been evaluated, not before it. Working on your gut and your inflammation also improves the environment for a donor egg cycle to implant and a pregnancy to be carried.

Stories From Fab Fertile Community

Working with couples for over a decade, the women who come to us after a failed IVF with a donor egg recommendation often share variations of the same gut story. Bloating after meals for years. A diagnosis of IBS in her twenties. Months of antibiotics for sinus infections or UTIs. Hormonal birth control from her late teens to her late twenties.

When the GI Map comes back, the pattern is usually visible. H. pylori with one or more virulence factors is elevated. A parasite. Dysbiosis. Elevated calprotectin. Sometimes one of these. Sometimes all of them.

She tells us her REI never asked. Her OB/GYN never asked. The clinic looked at her cycle, her uterus and her partner's semen analysis, and built a donor egg recommendation on that picture.

The work is not about overturning the diagnosis. It is about completing the picture. Some women conceive with their own eggs after the gut work is done. Some still move to donor eggs and have healthier pregnancies because the underlying inflammation is no longer working against them. The outcome depends on the woman, the timeline, and the specifics of her case. The point is that the decision gets made on the full picture.

Episode Timestamps

[00:00] The Donor Egg Recommendation After a Failed IVF Cycle

[01:00] Why the Fab Fertile Team Reviews Your Picture

[02:00] H. pylori: The Most Common Gut Finding We See

[03:00] Parasites, Streptococcus, and the Bacteria Most REIs Do Not Test

[04:00] Why a Single Gut Test Without Fertility Context Misses the Picture

[05:00] Iron, Ferritin, and the Fertility Range vs the Lab Range

[06:00] B12, Methylation, and Egg Maturation

[07:00] Zinc, Ovulation, and Progesterone

[08:00] What Your Clinic Missed: The Markers Before a Donor Egg Recommendation

[09:00] Why a Donor Egg Recommendation Responds to the Outcome, Not the Cause

[10:00] The Functional Fertility Second Opinion: What the Call Covers

The Case for a Second Opinion

If you have been told donor eggs are your next step and your workup did not include a stool test with virulence factors, an HTMA mineral panel, the iron panel against the fertility target, or a comprehensive look at your partner, the recommendation was made on a partial picture.

This is not a reason to ignore your clinic. We work alongside your medical team, not instead of them. None of this is a promise of any outcome. Some women go through a full functional fertility assessment and still move to donor eggs. That is a valid path, and for some women it is the right one. The point is that the decision gets made after the full picture has been evaluated.

👉 Book a Functional Fertility Second Opinion here.

We review your timeline, your existing labs, and your IVF history together with your partner's picture, and identify what may have been missed before the next decision gets made.

👉 Download What Your Clinic Missed: Email hello@fabfertile.ca, subject line MISSED

The guide walks through the markers we look at before a donor egg recommendation, including the thyroid panel, the iron panel with the fertility target, the gut testing your REI does not order, the inflammatory markers, and the male side.

About the Host

I'm Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile and host of Get Pregnant Naturally, a podcast with over one million downloads. My functional fertility team works with couples navigating low AMH and failed IVF, reviewing functional lab results, gut microbiome, food sensitivity, vaginal microbiome, nutrigenomics, HTMA, DUTCH, toxin testing, and bloodwork alongside nervous system work, to help identify patterns that may not have been considered. We work alongside your medical team, not instead of them.

Subscribe to Get Pregnant Naturally for weekly episodes on fertility optimization, IVF preparation, and the lab work your doctor probably isn't running.

By Sarah Clark, Founder, Fab Fertile | Host of Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast | Author of Fabulously Fertile

Last Reviewed May 2026

[00:00:00] The IVF cycle did
not work. Maybe you were told it was poor response. Maybe it got canceled
before the retrieval. Maybe you got embryos and perhaps they arrested. Maybe
you got the transfer and then it failed, and your clinic looked at your numbers
and they told you donor eggs. You walked away wondering if there was something
else to try and if there was something else that they didn't look at, something
that explains why your body responded the way it did, and there is.

There's a category of testing your fertility clinic does not
run. We rarely look at this testing and find nothing. People worry,
"You'll find nothing." No, that's not the case. So this episode is
what we look at and why it matters before you accept donor eggs as the answer.
Let's go. Before I get into it, here's who is reviewing your picture if you
book a call with us.

So I'm Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile, host of Get
Pregnant Naturally, a podcast with over one million downloads. We've been doing
this for over eight years. We've been [00:01:00]
in practice as a team here, the Fab Fertile team, for over 10 years. I was told
donor eggs at 28, and I had both my children through donor eggs.

And so my functional fertility team works with couples
navigating low AMH, failed IVF. We review functional lab testing such as gut
microbiome, food sensitivity, vaginal microbiome, nutrigenomics, HTMA, so hair
tissue mineral analysis, the Dutch, the toxin testing, and blood work alongside
nervous system work, plus your partner's semen and his blood work as well.

We help identify patterns that may not have been considered. We
work alongside your medical team, not instead of them. I'm excited to get into
today's episode. Here's what we consistently find when women come to us after a
failed IVF with a donor egg recommendation, right? I've had people tell me they
get the call when they're driving.

The clinic calls them, "Sorry, nothing has worked. The
retrieval has failed, the transfer failed, and it's donor eggs." Or
they're [00:02:00] walking through Target and
they get a call from the clinic, "Sorry, it's donor eggs." And they
just casually throw this out. I know this firsthand. And it's because they
can't help you with what they feel are your numbers, but then no one digs
deeper into your health.

And if you're dealing with failed IVF or embryos that aren't
making it or a miscarriage or low AMH or a POI or POR, so premature ovarian
insufficiency or diminished ovarian reserve, we've got to dig deeper. And most
people have already done a lot of work on their health, but they may have been
told that everything's okay and just go to IVF.

We want you to look at other things that could have been missed
by the clinic. We have access to functional lab testing. We ship it worldwide.
And one pattern that we see over and over again is H. pylori. It's a bacterial
infection in the stomach. It's one of the most common findings, and it impairs
absorption of iron, vitamin B12, and zinc.

And so those nutrients are foundational in egg quality, thyroid
function, and hormone production. [00:03:00] So
we see parasites, giardia, blastocysts. They're common, but they're rarely
tested at the fertility clinic. I'm not saying every single person that comes
in to see us has parasites, but we do regularly see overgrowth of bacteria.

H. pylori, it's passed back and forth between you and your
partner via saliva, and so it's important. That's why we work with couples.
You're swapping fluids here. You have similar gut microbiome. We do vaginal and
seminal microbiome testing too. We need to look at him, even though his semen
is perfect, that he's been high-fived at the clinic, and he's amazing.

We don't just want normal, we want optimal. We need to look at
the DNA fragmentation. We need to look at his blood work, and we need to see if
there's infections passing back and forth. This is you as a couple doing this
together. We also see bacterial infections, including streptococcus. These are
some of the things that I had, and I didn't discover this stuff till years
later.

That's why I've started Fab Fertile over 10 years. We see
fungal overgrowth, dysbiosis. People start chasing that anti-candida diet. The
candida or the fungal [00:04:00] goes into
hiding and chase it around in a circle. We need to use testing. We see elevated
calprotectin. We see a lot of people coming in with IBD, irritable bowel
disease, Crohn's, colitis.

The calprotectin is up, or maybe you just got inflammation in
the gut, which that can signal. So it's important to work with your physician
on this. This is not excluding your conventional doctor. It's working
alongside. We see elevated zonulin, which can indicate intestinal permeability.
You took a bunch of antibiotics.

I did that. Had a whole bunch of sinus infections, bladder
infections. So these UTIs took a whack of antibiotics. High stress, was on
birth control. All of that can lead to intestinal permeability, and then you
start getting intolerant to your favorite foods. All those nasty critters come
in, and typically it's called leaky gut.

And so we rarely find nothing on a stool test, otherwise you'd
already be pregnant. If everything was perfect on all the functional lab
testing you'd already be pregnant. Why this matters if you've had failed IVF,
H. pylori is gonna impair iron absorption. I can't tell you the number of [00:05:00] people. It is patterns that we see over
and over again.

People that are anemic, people that the ferritin is very low.
They've done iron infusions to bypass the gut and it's still not working. Or
they're just taking a whole bunch of iron, and then the thyroid is off. So if
your ferritin is reading low or low normal, your clinic says the iron is fine
because they like the lab range starting around 15.

So fertility, we like it around 50. And so iron is foundational
to egg quality. The oxygen carrying capacity to your follicles depend on it.
B12 affects methylation. So methylation is how your body produces the
co-factors needed for the egg maturation, and we see a lot of people that have
that MTHFR gene variant.

Over 60% of the population has that, and we do genetic testing
so we can see where on your genes, where for you, for the genetics, do you need
support? It's not just throwing a methylfolate at it. Yeah, you wanna make sure
you're not doing folic acid. Poor B12 absorption From H. [00:06:00] pylori shows up as maybe you're feeling
tired.

Maybe you've got brain fog. You've got low mood. All of this
could be connected. We're working with young women, right? In your 20s, your
30s, your 40s, you're a young woman. You should not be dragging your butt
around and trying to figure out w- which word to use 'cause you have brain fog.
So none of this is gonna be asked at your fertility clinic.

Zinc is gonna affect ovulation. Progesterone production, we got
a lot of people taking progesterone cream. We're not opposed to bioidentical
creams. And prescription medication is a identical HRT. If you've got hot
flashes, night sweats, libido issues, that can be part of the equation, but by
itself, it's a Band-Aid.

We need to look at all the underlying issue. I do encourage you
not to do one gut test. This is extremely multifactorial. You'll do the gut
test. Maybe you'll get the wrong protocol 'cause someone doesn't understand
fertility. They'll either hammer it and kill everything off, and you'll have
horrible reaction or they won't give you a protocol.

So it is very nuanced. We don't just do a gut microbiome GI map
test in isolation, say, [00:07:00] "Check
the box. Hey, I did that, and oh, it didn't work." No, this is
multifactorial. So fungal overgrowth or dysbiosis or a parasite, and if you've
got chronic inflammation, I've talked a lot about the high sensitivity
C-reactive protein.

If that's up above one, is there inflammation in your body? We
see it all the time. And that can affect your ovarian response to stimulation.
It's gonna impact your implantation. It affects miscarriage risk. So when your
fertility clinic is looking at a canceled cycle or arrested embryos or a failed
transfer, and it includes donor eggs, they're responding to the outcome.

It didn't work. They're not asking what's driving the outcome.
Is it the H. pylori that's passed between partners via saliva? If you have it,
there's a strong chance your partner has it. My partner and I had it, too.
Actually, my husband and I of almost 30 years. We're about to celebrate our
30-year anniversary here.

We have a house in Italy, which I'm recording from. You'll see
a weird little plug in the background, and we're gonna be heading out to the
south of France to celebrate 30 years together, and over 30 years, 'cause I met
[00:08:00] him in university. And yeah, we went
back and forth with this H. pylori. I'm like, "It was you."

He was like, "It was me." I do believe it was him.
But anyways, we're not pointing fingers. The whole point is to be able to
address it and then why are you not able to absorb all your nutrients, and then
that impacts your hormones. So it means there's a gut conversation. It's not
always about your eggs. It's about the sperm and the eggs and really looking at
both you partners.

If you're listening to this episode and recognizing pieces of
your own picture in it, I want you to have something before we go any further.
I put together a guide called What Your Clinic Missed. It walks you through the
markers we look at before donor egg recommendation gets accepted at face value,
the thyroid panel, not just the TSH, the iron panel that flags ferritin against
the fertility target, not the deficiency cutoff, the gut testing your REI does
not order, the inflammatory markers sitting underneath your numbers, and the
male side, the half of the picture that almost no one investigates.

So email me at hello@fabfertile.ca, subject line Missed. And
we'll send it over to you. That's [00:09:00]
hello@fabfertile.ca, subject line missed. Bring it to your next appointment and
share it with your REI. He may or may not agree, and that's okay. He doesn't
need to agree. He or she is trained to do surgeries and give medication.

They're not trained in this piece. So it's not that we exclude
them, we work alongside them. A donor egg recommendation after a failed IVF is
a recommendation based on the outcome, like we said. So a functional fertility
workup looks at your health, what your body has had access to going into the
cycle.

If your stool was never tested, if your ferritin was not
optimized, if the B12 and the zinc were never measured, the workup led to the
donor egg recommendation and that measured the result and we skipped the cause.
This is not a reason to ignore your clinic, right? We need to work alongside.
We can do cycle monitoring as we're going through this.

We see people's follicles improve, their AMH improve. Yes, both
of those can improve. And people can get pregnant with an extremely low AMH. It
does not predict your ability to get pregnant. So we don't want to be blind to
any of these numbers, but we don't just hang our hat on it. [00:10:00] And some women go through a full
functional fertility assessment and they still move to donor eggs, but then
they're in a better place for the donor egg to actually implant.

Because I see people spend tens of thousands of dollars, 30 to
$50,000 on donor eggs and it doesn't work because their health is not in the
best place and then they have horrible postpartum period or the pregnancy
wasn't good. We still need to work on our health beforehand. So it's a valid
path for some women.

Obviously, I had both my kids with donor eggs, so I love this
path, right? And it gave me a family. My daughter is 24, my son is 21. But I
didn't know any of this back then. And so if you're listening to this right
now, you're ahead of most people, right? We still, 25 years later, this stuff
is still not commonplace.

We're still using the surgeries and the medications instead of
looking to see why is this happening in the first place. Most people don't just
want to jump to donor eggs. We want to have our children with our own eggs. And
to me is to be open to what happens. If that doesn't work, we move to the [00:11:00] next thing.

There's a nervous system piece, and if we feel very panicked
because the clinic's going to make us feel panicked, that's not how we receive
our baby. We need to feel safe in our body, that our body is meant to
procreate, and then we go on to each phase as we move along. So this whole
episode is about clarity before you make a decision.

With the donor eggs, like rushing down a path that was never
fully investigated. The functional fertility second opinion is where the
clarity happens inside your specific case. So it's a call where we together
look at your labs, your history, your full picture, and your partner's picture.
So this is a call with you and your partner.

And you leave knowing what your biology is trying to tell you
and what your next decision should be. So if you wanted to book a functional
fertility second opinion, go to hello@fabfertile.ca, subject line fertile, or
you can go to fabfertile .com and book on apply here. Load your lab work, blood
work, load what you have.

It doesn't need to be perfect. Then we'll look at the patterns
and we'll give you some options to [00:12:00]
help. Make sure you subscribe to this podcast so you do not miss an episode,
and take care

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Told Donor Eggs After Failed IVF? The Gut Pattern Your Clinic Did Not Test

Listen to the Episode

Quick Scan: 3 Things You Should Know

3 Patterns We See

Pattern 1: She has digestive symptoms she stopped connecting to fertility

Pattern 2: Her GI Map comes back with H. pylori, often with virulence factors elevated

Pattern 3: Her partner has it too

What We Look At That Your Clinic Did Not

Functional Fertility Approach vs Standard REI Workup

What the Research Says

Why This Matters Before a Donor Egg Decision

FAQs

Stories From Fab Fertile Community

Episode Timestamps

The Case for a Second Opinion

Related Reading

About the Host

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Start With a Functional Fertility Second Opinion

Told Donor Eggs After Failed IVF? The Gut Pattern Your Clinic Did Not Test

Listen to the Episode

Quick Scan: 3 Things You Should Know

3 Patterns We See

Pattern 1: She has digestive symptoms she stopped connecting to fertility

Pattern 2: Her GI Map comes back with H. pylori, often with virulence factors elevated

Pattern 3: Her partner has it too

What We Look At That Your Clinic Did Not

Functional Fertility Approach vs Standard REI Workup

What the Research Says

Why This Matters Before a Donor Egg Decision

FAQs

Stories From Fab Fertile Community

Episode Timestamps

The Case for a Second Opinion

Related Reading

About the Host

Over 1 Million Podcast Downloads Interviewed and Published In

Start With a Functional Fertility Second Opinion

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