I just had a surgery where they removed eggs from my body. You know, the kind that can meet up with sperm to make a baby.

How and when people are having kids is changing, but our bodies aren’t.
As we get older, it can get harder to have kids when we want to. But doctors have found a way to remove human eggs, freeze them, then unfreeze them to use later. They can even fertilize eggs to make embryos and freeze those.
Basically, cryosleep exists! Just for tiny cells.

Here’s how this works – and why people do it.

But… what’s the process really like? To answer that question, watch our longer episode.

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