To Start a Family, This Woman Turned to Egg Freezing
Clip: Season 48 Episode 5 | 7m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
A woman is born with over a million eggs, but only 10% remain by the time she's 30.
At 39, Brigitte Adams became an early adopter of egg vitrification, a technology that can dramatically improve the preservation of a woman's eggs and, potentially, her future fertility. Here’s her story.
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To Start a Family, This Woman Turned to Egg Freezing
Clip: Season 48 Episode 5 | 7m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
At 39, Brigitte Adams became an early adopter of egg vitrification, a technology that can dramatically improve the preservation of a woman's eggs and, potentially, her future fertility. Here’s her story.
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