In this episode of The Hormone Café, Dr. Sarah Pederson explains how chronic inflammation can quietly interfere with ovulation, implantation, and miscarriage risk. She breaks down the five major sources of inflammation that impact fertility—and exactly how to evaluate and treat each one.
Your uterine lining isn’t just about your period—it’s the foundation for fertility and pregnancy. This blog breaks down how a healthy lining forms, what symptoms signal a problem, how it’s evaluated, and the treatments that restore implantation and reduce miscarriage risk.
In this episode of The Hormone Café, Dr. Sarah Pederson explains why the uterine lining (endometrium) is one of the most important—and most overlooked—parts of fertility and women’s health. She breaks down how a healthy lining forms each month, what symptoms signal a problem, how we evaluate it, and the treatments that can restore implantation and reduce miscarriage risk.
Surgery can be a key tool in supporting fertility and women’s health—but only when used strategically.
In this episode of The Hormone Café, Dr. Sarah Pederson explains how surgery fits into a holistic fertility and women’s health plan. She walks through when surgery is truly helpful, what happens before and during surgery, and how proper recovery—including nutrition and pelvic rehab—can dramatically improve fertility outcomes.
Your thyroid plays a central role in hormone balance, metabolism, fertility, and energy—understanding how to support it is key to overall health.
In this episode of The Hormone Café, Dr. Sarah Pederson breaks down the thyroid—why it’s central to metabolism, hormone production, fertility, and energy, and why thyroid testing should always be part of a comprehensive women’s health and fertility workup.
More supplements are almost never better – how a testing-first, nutrition-forward approach ensures supplements actually help rather than harm. The goal? Personalized, measured supplementation that supports your health and eventually allows you to come off supplements altogether.
In this episode of The Hormone Café, Dr. Sarah Pederson breaks down supplements for women’s health—how to use them strategically for hormone balance, fertility, vaginal health, and metabolism, and why more supplements is almost never better.
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI), also called premature menopause, occurs when ovarian function declines before age 40.
