These days we’re obsessed with self-improvement. We aspire to better gut health, sounder sleep, a faster metabolism. And the same is true of women’s health; the internet is awash with tips for boosting fertility and ‘correcting’ hormones. But for all the chat around oestrogen and cortisol, we never really talk about our eggs.

We’re born with our lifetime quota of eggs (around 2 million). By the time we hit puberty, that number’s already down to around 600,000 and it continues to decline. Despite our eggs playing a huge part in our lives (from periods to pregnancies and, as the stock begins to dwindle more rapidly, perimenopause through to menopause), we only talk about eggs in relation to freezing or donating them.

But it makes sense that if you can improve your hormonal status, you can also improve the quality of your eggs. Sperm can be improved quite simply, in part because it’s quite sensitive and because men are constantly producing it, meaning that there are loads of opportunity to regenerate. So, what about eggs? To find out, we’ve been chatting with Dr Natalie Getreu, global health expert in ovarian biology and co-founder and COO of Hertility Health.

Can you really improve your egg quality? An ovarian health doctor explains why it’s important and what to do about it