Selecting Male or Female Child? Here's How It Works | Dr. Andrew Huberman

So the the whole point here is that sex selection is possible but only using in vitro fertilization . The other thing that is becoming clear to us in more recent years is that sex selection is actually possible at the level of the sperm even prior to fertilization . This is an emerging data set and this is largely happening in clinics outside of the United States .

Selecting Male or Female Child? Here's How It Works | Dr. Andrew Huberman

And um as I mentioned before , unhealthy chromosomal arrangements or abnormal chromosomal arrangements often lead to miscarriage or and or birth defects . So , selecting for healthy chromosomal arrangements is always paramount but some people are selecting for biological sex . And indeed , some couples who can conceive naturally are opting for IU I in order to be able to select biological sex because of this ability to spin out the sperm samples to um different fractions and select the male or female sperm .

Selecting Male or Female Child? Here's How It Works | Dr. Andrew Huberman

And under those conditions , it is possible to look at the genetic makeup , including the karyotype of those early nascent embryos . In which case , people really can select the sex of their offspring . That is they will have some embryos that are xx , some embryos that are xy , it's very likely also that they will have some embryos that have ko types or genotypes , which are not ideal in that they would potentially lead to a miscarriage or some other genetic defect .

Selecting Male or Female Child? Here's How It Works | Dr. Andrew Huberman

And so typically , people do not select to implant those embryos if they have the option to implant embryos , that are of either xx or xy karyotype and the normal chromosomal um arrangements for obvious reasons . So the the whole point here is that sex selection is possible but only using in vitro fertilization . The other thing that is becoming clear to us in more recent years is that sex selection is actually possible at the level of the sperm even prior to fertilization .

Selecting Male or Female Child? Here's How It Works | Dr. Andrew Huberman

There are now emerging methods that people are using in order to separate out the sperm that will indeed give rise to a male offspring versus a female offspring . Now , this of course is done in the context of in vitro fertilization .

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