About this episode

Dr. Jane Levesque and Aimee Raupp discuss the increasing prevalence of fertility challenges among younger individuals and the importance of comprehensive diagnostics.

If you’ve been trying to conceive for over a year and want this level of detective work on your case, apply to work with me and my team here: drjanelevesque.com/application . It takes about 5–7 minutes to complete. If we can help, we’ll invite you to a free Fertility Clarity Call with one of my team members. On that call, we’ll go through your story, see what’s been missed, and walk you through our simple 3‑step Clarify → Correct → Conceive process that’s helped over 70% of our clients finally bring home a healthy baby. Episode Summary In this episode, I sit down with fertility expert Aimee Raupp to unpack what she’s seeing in practice after 21 years - more “younger” fertility cases, a bigger male-factor role, and a massive rise in immune and inflammatory drivers. We talk about why pregnancy is an immune process, how autoimmunity and chronic inflammation can block implantation, and why so many cases are mislabeled as “unexplained.” Aimee shares powerful stories of missed uterine diagnostics (fibroids, endometritis, endo) and why proper testing of the uterus, hormones, metabolism, and sperm can change everything. We also cover what’s evolving in IVF (PGT accuracy, protocol…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jane Levesque

Guest: Aimee Raupp

Topics covered

• fertility challenges
• immune process
• diagnostics
• IVF
• autoimmunity
• chronic inflammation

Keywords

• fertility
• diagnostics
• IVF
• autoimmunity
• inflammation
• pregnancy
• health

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