Pearl - NO EGGS： IVF Will NOT Save You.

00:00:00.000 Let's say you're an impressionable high school age girl

00:00:02.820 pondering what to do with your life. 0.95

00:00:04.600 Your morbidly obese, purple-haired English teacher

00:00:07.200 with three cats said it was super important

00:00:09.220 to go to college and get a career.

00:00:11.220 Your non-binary social studies teacher

00:00:13.220 who hasn't had a date since 1991

00:00:15.200 tells you pretty much the same thing.

00:00:17.280 Meanwhile, the influencers you admire on TikTok and Instagram

00:00:20.320 assault you with the messages that a girl's 20s

00:00:22.980 are best spent finding herself and having fun

00:00:25.600 while also trying to get the bag.

00:00:27.740 Why is all this important?

00:00:29.240 Well, basically, you were told repeatedly growing up that skipping right to being a wife and a mother was somehow letting down the sisterhood, betraying them for the patriarchy. 0.99

00:00:41.020 You would be a total piece of garbage if you didn't reach your full potential, whatever that means. 1.00

00:00:46.160 You would be nothing but a breeding cow and a worthless domestic servant in a world full of evil men. 1.00

00:00:52.560 A shining career in financial independence was the real secret to happiness. 0.83

00:00:56.560 Marriage and children would happen somewhere down the line.

00:01:00.260 It's just a matter of time.

00:01:01.700 Because what guy wouldn't want to be with an intelligent, accomplished, self-reliant girl boss such as yourself? 0.97

00:01:07.940 After all, why would all the women in your life, teachers, celebrities, politicians, and influencers lie to you?

00:01:14.680 Fast forward to when you're 35.

00:01:16.700 You rent a single bedroom apartment in a big, fashionable city inhabited by millions of strangers.

00:01:22.740 You have an overpriced piece of paper hanging on your wall that says

00:01:26.540 Bachelors of Cultural Studies or Sociology or some other trash.

00:01:31.220 You still owe $60,000 in student debt along with $20,000 on your credit cards. 0.68

00:01:36.520 You work for a boss who couldn't care less about you and a company that barely knows you exist.

00:01:42.080 Your role is in PR or HR, corporate engagement or some other nonsense.

00:01:47.080 You spend hours in pointless meetings with your fake work colleagues, 0.74

00:01:51.380 pushing buzzwords and cope around the room like a pack of mindless hyenas.

00:01:55.920 It could be worse.

00:01:56.840 You could have been lured into making an OnlyFans account six years ago

00:02:00.360 like so many of your girlfriends. 0.99

00:02:02.080 You're glad you're not an internet prostitute, 0.98

00:02:04.500 but you still find yourself wishing that softcore material 0.98

00:02:08.020 you regularly post on your Instagram would get more attention than like.

00:02:11.720 Maybe a guy from Dubai, you know?

00:02:13.620 You're still single.

00:02:14.840 You've had three committed relationships and 50 sexual partners,

00:02:18.240 mostly in your 20s when you were still relatively young and moderately attractive.

00:02:23.080 The number of approaches you rejected, the DMs ignored,

00:02:26.740 and the profiles you left swiped stretches into the hundreds, if not thousands.

00:02:32.120 You'll never settle.

00:02:33.300 You're looking for your person.

00:02:34.920 He's out there somewhere.

00:02:36.280 You spend your evenings having nervous breakdowns on TikTok

00:02:39.140 and your weekends filming yourself at Home Depot as you stalk the aisles for a man. 0.93

00:02:44.200 Meanwhile, there's more dust gathering in the corners of your uterus

00:02:47.160 than the average haunted mansion and you can feel your ovaries weathering on the vine like a couple

00:02:52.860 of grapes in a massive drought soon there'll be raisins 95 of your eggs are gone and you've

00:02:59.020 reached the age of geriatric pregnancy you are in danger of becoming yet another casualty in the

00:03:04.960 epidemic of involuntary childlessness quietly sweeping across the west but all is not lost

00:03:11.960 you still have time. IVF will save you, right? IVF is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for women

00:03:18.620 who spent their 20s wasting their peak fertility chasing a career, chasing Chad, or a mixture of 0.90

00:03:24.260 both, though it is often treated as such by spoiled, self-indulgent women who are allergic 0.98

00:03:29.520 to long-term planning and common sense. Instead, IVF is an expensive, highly unreliable process 0.90

00:03:35.960 prone to failure. Even for women who are under 35, the failure rate of IVF is 47 to 49 percent

00:03:42.460 according to most recent U.S. data. So pretty much a coin toss. Even when women are still in

00:03:48.180 their fertile window, for women aged 35 to 37, the first couple of geriatric pregnancy, the failure

00:03:54.220 rate shoots up to 60 to 70 percent due to a significant drop in egg quality. Because despite

00:04:00.600 what social media and daytime tv will tell you past the age of 35 year old ladies rapidly 1.00

00:04:06.840 transforming from hoe into hag hot girl to has been it's why nature wanted you to already be 1.00

00:04:12.940 surrounded by a husband a loving family long before you reached that point from ages 38 to 40 0.99

00:04:19.220 the failure rate of ivf is 70 to 80 percent at 41 and 42 the failure rate is 85 to 90 percent

00:04:26.680 and there's a spike in chromosome issues like Down syndrome and from 43 years onward the failure rate

00:04:32.920 hits 93 to 97 percent. In other words complete and total failure is almost assured. You're done,

00:04:39.900 cooked, nada, nayski, game over. The cause of the high failure rate of IVF is due to a mixture of 1.00

00:04:47.340 factors. Women are born with a fixed number of eggs, a number that is rapidly dwindling. The

00:04:53.380 older you are, the fewer eggs can be harvested during an IVF procedure, lowering the odds of

00:04:59.020 success right then and there. And the older you are, the more likely the eggs are going to be

00:05:03.560 damaged by the metabolic stress, which is caused by the act of a woman simply living out her life. 1.00

00:05:10.340 Each knock and scrape to your system has an effect. Yet most U.S. women today insist on 1.00

00:05:16.020 screwing around until they are pushing 30. Older eggs are more likely to suffer mitochondrial 1.00

00:05:20.960 dysfunctions resulting in DNA damage that cannot be repaired, along with the swelling and the

00:05:26.540 appearance of fluid-filled vacuums and damaged cristae needed for respiration. Older eggs suffer

00:05:33.240 oxidative stress, leading to a vicious cycle that damages the egg further and further, making it less

00:05:39.240 and less likely to be viable. Even if you get a decent egg, as an older woman, it's less likely 0.95

00:05:44.240 to get implanted in the increasingly thin and weakened lining of your uterus. The long and the

00:05:49.920 short of it is with age you get a lower quality bun and a lower quality oven there is no fancy

00:05:55.440 medical cure for this no silver bullet nature wants you to have kids between the ages of 18

00:06:00.640 to 25 with some wiggle room for multiple children a little past 30 there is no medical technology

00:06:06.660 known to man that can counteract this and there probably never will be during our lifetime there's

00:06:12.480 no fighting nature father time is undefeated ladies and there's no getting around it you might 0.81

00:06:18.000 as well pick a fight with gravity or the tides of the ocean it's why nature made you look hot when

00:06:23.640 you are young to find a decent man and to start building a family not chase a career or a sequence 1.00

00:06:29.880 of sociopaths in a nightclub not wasted away on some 60 year old failed feminist experiment that

00:06:36.120 fooled the overwhelming majority of women three entire generations across the west women were 0.96

00:06:41.780 lied to and they should be pissed. Okay so your ovaries may be turning into fossils by the age of 1.00

00:06:48.160 35 but what if you took the precaution of freezing your eggs at a younger age? You know you can spend

00:06:53.800 a few extra years chasing that highly prized job with a fancy title that in reality reduces you to

00:07:00.120 a paper pushing secretary or a few extra years banging guys who are out of your league that 0.98

00:07:05.720 won't commit but are happy to use you for meaningless sex. If your eggs are going to smell 0.99

00:07:10.520 like old gym socks at 35, what if you just pop a few decent ones in the freezer while you're still

00:07:16.560 young and hot? Problem solved, right? Right? Wrong. You go to the consultations. You have the tests

00:07:24.520 run. You stab yourself with the hormone medications for two weeks. You ignore the risks of blood

00:07:30.340 clots and kidney damage. And a little later, a doctor sticks a needle up your vagina and extracts 1.00

00:07:36.580 them. The eggs are flash frozen and stored in nitrogen tanks for an annual fee of $2,000, 0.96

00:07:43.620 not counting the roughly five grand for the initial consultations and procedures.

00:07:48.440 But if it means putting off motherhood so you can live, laugh, love for a little bit longer,

00:07:53.280 you are only happy to pay. And you return several years later as a desperate woman, 1.00

00:07:59.100 old, more wrinkles with a heavy load of emotional trauma and a sizable helping of sagging skin. 0.74

00:08:04.860 you've got a series of failed relationships behind you and you're banged out to the point

00:08:09.400 where you've completely obliterated your ability to pair bond you thaw out your eggs 10 to 15

00:08:15.900 percent of them die immediately an additional 30 percent don't fertilize and an additional 60

00:08:21.400 percent don't develop to the viable embryo stage all up you better hope you banked enough for the

00:08:27.000 frozen ones because the odds of a live birth are about four percent per egg and now you have to

00:08:32.300 take the gamble of implanting the usable eggs into your aging body. If you use IVF for your

00:08:38.000 frozen eggs at 35 to 37, the failure rate is between 35 and 50%. What up guys? Have you ever

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00:09:20.580 toss. Maybe a little bit better if you're lucky. From 38 to 40 years old, the failure rate is 55

00:09:26.840 to 67%. From 41 to 42 years old, the failure rate is 70 to 80%. And anything above 43, the odds of

00:09:35.260 failure are 87% or higher. So paying to freeze your eggs hardly buys you more time and barely

00:09:41.760 improves the odds. Once again, your chances dwindle within a handful of years. So rather than risk it

00:09:47.880 with your own body, which is rapidly starting to resemble the Wicked Witch of the West, maybe you'd 0.97

00:09:52.740 prefer to rent the uterus of a woman who is still of an appropriate childbearing age, namely a 0.99

00:09:59.040 surrogate. And indeed, that will significantly improve your chances of success. Assuming, of 0.98

00:10:04.240 course, you are both willing and able to pay the national average fee of $140,000 to $180,000 for

00:10:12.020 a single surrogacy. And assuming you don't live anywhere pricey in the United States like New York

00:10:17.440 or California, your cost is likely to be closer to a quarter of a million dollars. But hey, perhaps

00:10:23.180 the price is worth it for a few more years of girl bossing and getting run through by Alpha

00:10:27.360 Chad. Alternatively, if you don't want to rely on your old withered eggs or a batch of frozen eggs

00:10:32.880 from your hoe phase, you can always get a donor egg. But you'll have to be okay with not being 0.98

00:10:37.980 the biological mother of your own children. And you'll also have to be okay with paying $35,000

00:10:44.420 to $65,000 per fresh batch of eggs from some stranger.

00:10:49.500 But once again, no price is too high

00:10:51.540 to avoid the terrible fate of becoming a wife and a mother

00:10:54.200 in your early 20s, right girls?

00:10:56.340 If you thought that selling lottery tickets was a racket,

00:10:59.380 wait till you hear this. 0.93

00:11:00.780 The fertility medications you've got to stab yourself with

00:11:03.740 prior to one single egg collection 0.79

00:11:06.280 will cost you $7,000.

00:11:08.760 And that's just the start.

00:11:09.900 The actual lab work, invasive egg retrieval,

00:11:12.980 fertilization and developing the embryo will cost you an additional $20,000. If you want to freeze

00:11:19.420 those eggs, that'll cost $6,000 along with a $2,000 annual fee for storage. While you spend a few years

00:11:26.340 running out that body count and living your best life, not counting the storage fees, that's a

00:11:31.380 total of $27,000 to $33,000 per coin flip if you're 35 or if you're around 40, it's an absurd

00:11:39.560 amount of money that will almost certainly go to waste. With failure rates spanning 50 to 97%,

00:11:45.820 the average woman must pay for multiple tries at IVF, going ever more deeply into debt without 1.00

00:11:52.200 possibly anything to show for it at the end. There's a reason why only 2% of U.S. mothers 1.00

00:11:58.520 conceive their kids via this expensive and unreliable process, and most of that 2% resort

00:12:05.360 to IVF because they've got tragic medical issues, not because they were a delusional, selfish, 1.00

00:12:11.720 harpy girl bossing and p***y tasting until it was almost too late. But it doesn't stop there. 1.00

00:12:18.100 Common additional fees include $10,000 per roll of the dice for genetic testing to make sure your kid

00:12:23.520 isn't going to be born with Down syndrome or some other chromosomal issue.

00:12:27.640 and there's roughly $1,500 in additional fees for advanced lab techniques should your half

00:12:35.760 rotten eggs prove stubborn and that speaks nothing of the cost of donor eggs or surrogates should you

00:12:41.340 go that route and if you're still going to be picky about donor sperm and if you're still single

00:12:45.880 at 35 I suspect you will be that can cost you an additional several thousand dollars the absurd

00:12:53.280 costs of IVF are why medical insurance companies hate providing coverage for it. So much so that

00:12:58.900 the government has resorted to forcing insurers to cover it, though they've only successfully

00:13:04.360 managed to do this in 15 states. Even then, insurers wiggle as best as they can. Some will

00:13:10.600 only cover initial fertility exams, some only cover a limited number of attempts, and you'll

00:13:16.040 be paying a high premium and still be facing many out-of-pocket costs. Bottom line, when insurance

00:13:22.220 salesmen of all people think something's a scam you know there's something seriously fishy about 0.96

00:13:28.320 IVF and I'm not just talking about the old beat up worn out vaginas ultimately medical insurers 0.99

00:13:35.480 just do not think they should be subsidizing women's terrible planning selfish behavior and 0.99

00:13:40.720 poor life decisions in countries where the taxpayers do subsidize women's poor life decisions 0.83

00:13:46.060 to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year it barely moves the needle for instance

00:13:51.580 In Australia, the government spends about $500 million per year for a much smaller population to cover roughly half of IVF, with women paying roughly $15K for a single cycle rather than $30K, all for 5% of Australian mothers who fuck around far longer and start having kids far later than American women to have successful IVF, and just so Australia can have a fertility rate in the toilet at 1.48 births per woman.

00:14:19.620 In Israel, the government subsidizes pretty much all IVF and covers an unlimited amount

00:14:25.160 of rolls of the dice for women up to the age of 45 with their own eggs and up to 51 with donor

00:14:31.380 eggs. It costs the government $315 million per year to fund a pretty steep failure rate. Once

00:14:38.780 again, only 5% of live births are from IVF. Researchers agree this has very little to do

00:14:44.160 with Israel's unusually high fertility rate for a developed nation, 2.85. Instead, the experts cite

00:14:50.540 the immense religious and social pressure on women to have as many kids as possible, not least because

00:14:55.960 of geopolitical concerns. If the United States were to subsidize IVF in a similar fashion, it would 1.00

00:15:02.000 cost the taxpayer about $5.5 billion per year. And like Australia, there's no guarantee that cash

00:15:09.120 would increase the American fertility rate at all. And there's a high price to pay for limited

00:15:14.180 results, chronic failure, just because modern women across the developed world have proven 0.99

00:15:19.380 themselves incapable of basic life planning. In other words, it's a high price to pay for a 1.00

00:15:25.300 streaming pile of self-indulgent feminist BS. In the United States, a woman's median age for first 1.00

00:15:31.720 baby is 28 years old. Digging into that average, we find that 37.6% of the first births are to

00:15:38.840 women past the age of 30 and when you start that late you're less likely to have two or three kids 0.95

00:15:44.400 it is no wonder that the u.s fertility rate is so low in nations that are even more far gone like

00:15:49.940 the uk and australia the average age of first birth is 30 and 32 years old respectively in

00:15:56.140 terms of percentage of mothers who have had their first kid past the age of 30 it is an estimated

00:16:01.060 45 in the uk and 55 in australia even when women do not use ivf as a fallback they are having kids

00:16:08.820 later and later and later. The primary causes are selfishness and poor planning. The results of 0.87

00:16:14.600 this shift in female behavior is predictable. By now, you've probably heard the quoted Morgan 0.85

00:16:19.440 Stanley statistic that 45% of women between the ages of 25 to 44 years old being single and

00:16:26.120 childless by 2030. But women at age 25 still have a few years left in their fertility window to get

00:16:31.980 started. If only they would get out of the workforce or get the stranger's out of their 1.00

00:16:35.960 mouth. Instead of relying on the Morgan Stanley statistic, we can delve deeper into the problem

00:16:41.380 for more accurate and nevertheless harrowing numbers. Current rates of involuntary childlessness

00:16:47.360 in women past the age of 35 and not counting women who are infertile for medical reasons

00:16:52.460 are estimated 16% of older women in the United States, 18% of older women in the UK, 20% of such

00:16:59.980 cases in australia 25 in japan and a whopping 28 in south korea to be clear we are not counting 0.99

00:17:07.120 the small minority of chelsea handler types who say they don't want kids and cope with an endless

00:17:12.040 supply of white wine and frequent speeches about how happy they are without children we're just 0.99

00:17:19.080 talking about women who missed the mark and deeply regret it one six to over one quarter of aging

00:17:25.100 women across the world, depending on the country. And those numbers are only expected to grow as the

00:17:31.420 years go by. Some of those women may wind up having kids at the 11th hour. Many won't. Either 1.00

00:17:38.200 way, it's a horrendous epidemic of misery that you often won't see discussed on the nightly news, 1.00

00:17:43.760 because it completely invalidates the feminist lifestyles currently being advocated to all 1.00

00:17:51.300 young women. So imagine again that you were the high school age girl. Are you going to swallow 1.00

00:17:56.220 the same lies that poisoned three going on four generations? Or are you going to learn from their

00:18:01.920 mistakes and start a family earlier? And if you really think a career is going to fulfill you

00:18:07.420 spiritually and philosophically, you could always start in the workforce a few years later and still

00:18:13.100 have literal decades to girl boss to your heart's content. But something tells me supported by a

00:18:19.100 good husband and surrounded by a loving family, by that point, most of you won't give a damn.

00:18:25.140 Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.

Pearl - April 30, 2026

NO EGGS： IVF Will NOT Save You.

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