In-vitro Fertilization costs at least 10,000 dollars, Vitamin D costs 5 dollars
Considering IVF? Here’s How Much It Costs In Canada Sept 2019
“Infertility affects one in six heterosexual couples in Canada”
One round of IVF costs $10,000 to $20,000
“IVF gets expensive because the most any province will cover is one round... and on average, it takes 2.7 rounds of IVF in order to get pregnant.
How an Israeli Startup Is Using AI to Help People Make Babies Jan 2021
" Insurance rarely covers IVF, and the costs run anywhere from $12,000 to $25,000 per cycle (a cycle takes about a month and includes stimulating a woman’s ovaries to produce eggs, extracting the eggs, inseminating them outside the body, and implanting an embryo)."
"They used 8,789 time-lapse videos of developing embryos to train an algorithm that predicts the likelihood of successful embryo implantation."
"...the company reports that using its algorithm resulted in a 12 percent increase in positive predictive value (identifying embryos that would lead to implantation and healthy pregnancy) and a 29 percent increase in negative predictive value (identifying embyros that would not result in successful pregnancy) when compared to an external panel of embryologists."
It appears that some IVF could be eliminated by increasing the Vitamin D levels
Assisted Reproduction – 5 studies concluded vitamin D repletion helps – Review March 2015
Vitamin D and Human Reproduction – 51 page chapter – April 2017
Many fertility disorders associated with low vitamin D, still unsure how much is needed – Dec 2016
Pregnancy success increased 30 percent if sunny (or vitamin D) one month earlier – June 2015
Preterm birth 3.3 times more likely if Vitamin D Receptor gene problem – Aug 2016
Overview Conception and vitamin D
Vitamin D increases fertility of BOTH the man and the woman.
Each 1 ng increase in blood level of vitamin D increases fertility by 1%.
You may not have heard much about it since Vitamin D was patented for fertility way back in 1990.
Vitamin D has been used by zoos and vets for a long time to increase birth rate
Vitamin D associated with 60 percent better assisted reproduction success – Dec 2019
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The men need to increase Vitamin D as well
Birth rates doubled with Vitamin D - 300,000 IU for infertile men – RCT Nov 2017
- Note: Studies typically ignore the vitamin D level of the sprem donor
Vitamin D somewhat assists reproduction – both the mother and the father – May 2014
In vitro fertilization not helped by vitamin D if ignore high levels and male levels – meta Mar 2016
IVF helped by Vitamin D (if not totally eliminated)
IVF 4X more successful for white women with lots of vitamin D – many studies
IVF 50 percent more likely to result in pregnancy if high vitamin D – meta-analysis Nov 2017
PCOS fertility problems also reduced by VItamin D
Fertility problem (PCOS) reduced by vitamin D, etc. - many studies
Vitamin D and aspects of female fertility (especially PCOS) – May 2017
PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) 4 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Dec 2015
- There are many low-cost ways to increase the activation of the Vitamin D Receptor
Vitamin D and fertility: a systematic review – May 2012 which has the following graphic
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In vitro fertilization SlideShare July 2014
- IVF by the Numbers March 2016
- "The latest SART report shows that 61,740 babies were born in the U.S. as a result of IVF in 2012. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about 4 million births per year in the U.S., meaning 1 to 2 percent of all U.S. births annually are via IVF."
Women often eat pinapple on IVF day (New York Times - Oct 2019)
No evidence that pinapple improves success, vs 4X improvement in IVF if have lots of VIitamin D