January 26, 2022
Fertility with Diana
Description
Friendly neighborhood Filipina Diana Rocacorba swings by the studio to give the guys an honest look at her personal fertility journey while conceiving the Top 40 hit "2:03 pm (the Timed Intercourse Song)".
Episode
Bio
Diana was raised in Anaheim, CA and graduated UCLA with a Sociology degree with an Education minor. After graduating, Diana worked with her alma mater as an associate resident director for the UCLA Office of Residential Life, and program director with UCLA’s official charity Unicamp before joining Revolution Prep as partnerships manager. Currently, Diana is the Associate Director of Development at the Pinewood School, Los Altos, CA’s premier non-secular college preparatory school.
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What Jason Learned
Figs are composed of dead bugs!
What Kelcey Learned
In 2019, 56% of American survey respondents said they do not believe that Arabic numerals should be taught in schools (Arabic numerals = 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
Top Five Tips for managing fertility challenges

  1. Communicating with your partner and with your medical team of your wants and needs

  2. Take control of your fertility journey

  3. Educate yourself and know your fertility options (and risks!)

  4. Expect the unexpected

  5. Listen to your auntie

Fact or Fiction: Fertility edition

  1. For healthy women, fertility peaks in their mid-teens, begins declining at age 17, and decelerates at around age 27 - FICTION, fertility peaks in mid-twenties, begins declining at age 27, and nosedives by age 37

  2. Most cases of infertility are caused by stress - FICTION, in most cases, stress does not cause infertility, and except for rare cases of extreme physical or emotional distress, women will keep ovulating regularly

  3. Having fathered a pregnancy and diet are the leading indicators for ability to have a child - FICTION, both have very little or nothing to do with infertility (sperm count can change immensely with time, and there is little scientific data that a particular diet or food promotes fertility).

  4. Impaired fecundity (the inability to have a child) affects 1.2 million women in the US - FICTION, Impaired fecundity affects 6.7 million women in the US, which is about 11% of the reproductive-age population (Source: National Survey of Family Growth, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2006-2010)

  5. Vitamin C may improve results of fertility treatments - FICTION, a recent study suggested that women who were unable to conceive had low levels of Vitamin D.

Won't You, Haiku?
Fertility

Turkey basting is
Fertility's answer to
Ten million sperm.