shouldifakeit

> We are always trying to find the best way to simplify the science.

Please don't.

Just be honest and try to actually solve the problem of explaining science in layman terms rather than doing away with the explanations and complexity altogether.

I repeat: you’re misleading women by telling them you can tell them ‘how many eggs they have.’ (These are the words you use on your website)

There is no way to count the number of eggs exactly but your statements seem to suggest you do this. This is just wrong - the best you can do is give a very wide range.

Also you say AMH levels are well validated as a proxy for ovarian reserve - the science on this is far from what I’d describe as ‘well validated’. Please speak to 5 gynaecologists and let me know if all 5 agree with your assertion. (That it is the best measure available is not the same as saying it’s wdlk validated, please be clear on this).

I love what you're doing, but a piece of advice - please don't oversell and mislead women by suggesting you can tell them 'how many eggs they have' (text taken from your home page).

You know well that this is not possible at all. 'High/medium/low' is about the best you can say. Please don't mislead people in this way and diminish what is otherwise a really good product.

Nonsense. Where are you getting your stats from?

Happy to chat with you about this. I've been through 4 IVFs and have severe male factor infertility, so sadly I know this space all too well. Mens market is trickier - the existing method for home testing for men is too clunky. You need to produce a sperm sample into.. a test tube. Then put it in warm water. Then wait. This is too dirty and too much work.

There is a roundabout way to do this without a sperm sample. Pen prick, blood in a container, ship it out to a lab and then do a karyotype test on it. That'll pick up around 50% of infertility cases. To cover the rest, you'll need to do a sperm test. Also, the 'hook' that gets men in has to be more than just 'check your sperm count'. Men mostly couldn't care less about their sperm count. Something like 'check if you're at risk of passing on a rare blood disease' is a much better hook.

Its a good idea, but I wonder how accurate your results will be. HCG tests (done via blood samples) are notoriously bad as a predictor for how many eggs are actually in the ovaries. Its a very broad indicator yes, but nothing more than that.

This is really quite different from say testing a mens sperm where you can accurately count the exact number to the nearest million.

Have you compared your accuracy with an HCG test? What is the delta between your home test results and an HCG test?