Older women struggling to conceive often find hope in an over-the-counter steroid hormone supplement called DHEA. Though evidence for its effectiveness is weak, DHEA has rocketed to prominence as a fertility booster thanks largely to one man.
, which reviews health and nutrition products. There are no set standards for it. “When they say ‘pharmaceutical-grade,’ they’re making up that term,” Cooperman said.
Fertility Nutraceuticals is not publicly traded, so its revenue and profits are not known, and the company declined to comment on its finances. Internal documents from Gleicher’s clinic, filed in New York State Court as part of a dispute between the clinic and a former employee, show that it earned $537,000 in revenue from supplement sales between 2015 and 2017 and spent over $400,000 on supplement purchases from Gleicher’s company in that time.
A third CHR patient, Nathalie Mantilla, 45, had one child through fertility treatments in 2021. She said Gleicher and Barad recommended Fertility Nutraceuticals’ products, saying they were higher quality, and that they told her about their affiliation with the company. “He definitely has to disclose his stake to the patients that he recommends these products to,” said Genevieve Kanter, a professor at the University of Southern California who has researched ethics in medicine.
there are not enough safeguards in place to ensure that medical professionals selling products to patients “are doing so in patients’ best interests.”to Gleicher. The letter states that Fertility Nutraceuticals’ website claimed its DHEA product “has been show [sic] in multiple studies to … reduce miscarriage risk,” and along with another supplement, can “boost your chance of pregnancy or improve your IVF success rate.
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