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Speaker 1: A few years ago, I started really freaking out. I

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Speaker 1: was in my mid thirties. The time on my biological

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Speaker 1: clock was quickly running out. So I set off to

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Speaker 1: figure out whether I should freeze my eggs. But along

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Speaker 1: the way I found more, a lot more.

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Speaker 2: Most people have no idea what happens in the lab

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Speaker 2: of a fertility clinic.

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Speaker 3: The industry was built as a niche for high net

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Speaker 3: worth individuals.

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Speaker 1: I called it, like the cults have never give up.

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Speaker 1: I'm Bloomberg Health reporter Kristen V. Brown. My new series,

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Speaker 1: Misconception journeys to the core of an industry where some

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Speaker 1: of the most intimate, emotional and trying moments in life

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Speaker 1: collide with business. A world where the costs are high,

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Speaker 1: but the odds are sometimes low, Where miracles happen but

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Speaker 1: soda mistakes.

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Speaker 4: It's all oh so terrifying. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Misconception launches July twenty third. Subscribe to Prognosis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.