Peter Attia· MD
Certainly, we do know that the quality of the eggs decreases, right, as women get older. So, that affects how the eggs and the chromosomes ultimately divide. That's part of the reason it's harder to get pregnant as you get older.
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Certainly, we do know that the quality of the eggs decreases, right, as women get older. So, that affects how the eggs and the chromosomes ultimately divide. That's part of the reason it's harder to get pregnant as you get older.
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as a woman ages the probability of successful division goes down right so something changes as a woman ages but we don't understand exactly but whatever it is that's going on makes those chromosome errors much more likely.
Certainly, we do know that the quality of the eggs decreases, right, as women get older. So, that affects how the eggs and the chromosomes ultimately divide. That's part of the reason it's harder to get pregnant as you get older.
So something changes as a woman ages but we don't understand exactly but whatever it is that's going on makes those chromosome errors much more likely.
because the as we know that as a woman ages the probability of successful division goes down, right? So something changes as a woman ages but we don't understand exactly but whatever it is that's going on makes those chromosome errors much more likely.