Fat, Feared as Weight Gain, Is Actually the Building Block of Life “Greasy food is bad for your health.” This is one of the most familiar health maxims for modern people. When deciding to lose weight, fat is the first thing to be reduced, and when choosing food, the fat content is the first thing…

The Era Where Youth Guarantees Fertility Is Over “I’m young, so why is my egg quality poor?” This is one of the most frequent questions asked by women in their 20s and 30s undergoing fertility treatment. Even among young women, there are many cases where they repeatedly hear that their egg quality is poor during…

The Hormone Expressway: If Blood Flow Stops, Reproduction Stops Too Pregnancy is often explained simply as the meeting of an egg and a sperm. However, if you look at it through the lens of reproductive medicine, pregnancy is a far more complex process. The mere existence of healthy eggs and sperm does not automatically lead…

Increasing Cases of Childbirth in Your 50s? Mostly IVF with Egg Donation Recently, news of women in their 50s getting pregnant and giving birth has appeared frequently in international media. Stories that sound like a grandmother holding her grandchild, only for it to be revealed as a new mother with her newborn, are no longer…

The Truth About Menstrual Blood: Your Monthly Health Report Card Menstrual blood is not merely “blood.” It is a vital health signal that reflects the status of your uterus, ovaries, and reproductive hormone system. For healthy women, menstruation typically occurs in a cycle of 28 to 35 days. It is the process where the uterine…

The Egg Attracts and Selects the Sperm Many people understand fertilization as a competition among sperm. The common belief is that hundreds of millions of sperm race toward an egg, and the fastest and strongest one reaches it to succeed in fertilization. For a long time, biology textbooks have indeed explained it this way. However,…

Sperm: A Record of Past and Present Life Men are strangely slow to visit the hospital. This is especially true for urological symptoms. A slight stinging sensation when urinating. A little discharge on the underwear. It seems to get better after a few days. Many men end their judgment there. They dismiss it, thinking, “I…

Larger Chests, Vanished Sperm For many men today, their body has become a kind of resume. Open any social media feed, and you will see defined abs, broad shoulders, and thick arms appearing as symbols of success. The gym is no longer just a place to exercise; it has become a stage to prove, compete,…

English Translation Loach Soup and Grilled Eel: Do They Really Help with Implantation? The Psychology of “Implantation Foods”: A Desire for Success Among women preparing for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or those who have just undergone embryo transfer, similar questions are always circulating: “Should I be eating abalone?” “I heard loach soup is good.” “I…

One Egg, One Sperm… And the Fingertips of an Embryologist Couples preparing for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) are usually very cautious when choosing a physician, yet they rarely scrutinize the most crucial factor: laboratory cultivation technology, specifically the skilled expertise of the embryologists. Ironically, one of the most critical moments in IVF does not occur…

Must-Check Conditions for Oligozoospermia and Azoospermia Human history is, in essence, the history of genes. Countless pieces of information passed from father to son, and then to grandson, are recorded within tiny chromosomes to be transmitted to the next generation. What happens if part of this record disappears? The Y-chromosome microdeletion, often encountered while covering…

Trillions of Sperm and 500 Eggs: How Life Begins People often think of sperm and eggs by the same standards when facing fertility challenges. However, a peek into the world of reproduction reveals that men and women are designed with entirely different strategies from the very beginning. Men prepare for life through a process of…