Growing up with her dad being an OBGYN, Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh’s family had a lot of discussions around the dinner table about women’s health. One night when she was home from medical school, the family was talking about how it’s incredibly unfair that men can ejaculate sperm into a cup but women have to undergo surgery, take injections to have an egg retrieved.
That same night, Dr. Aimee’s mother announced to her that she believed that women ejaculate eggs. The young Eyvazzadeh promised her mom that she would commit her life to finding out if women ejaculated eggs or not.
Fast forward to a space mission Dr. Aimee took in 2019 where she performed the first IVF cycle in space. She learned through trial and error that performing an egg retrieval under anesthesia was close to impossible in space. She knew had to find a way to retrieve eggs without all of the laborious process. And so four years ago, she doubled down on trying to figure out if her mom’s suggestion might be a real thing, especially since there is very little time or money usually spent to solve women’s health issues.
Over the past 10 months, Eyvazzadeh partnered with Medium, KTEF Channel 11, and the Society of Vaginal Health to research this in an official capacity. She was joined by two colleagues, anesthesiologist Dr. Younger, and Dr. Tulip von Hyman, the President of the Society of Vaginal Health as we started to qualify and quantify the possibility of female ejaculation.
After 10 months of deep research, and 1,478 specimen collections from women across the United States, the trio discovered something that they hope will radically change how fertility doctors approach egg collection.
Dr. Aimee found the first egg in a female ejaculate.
Her mom was right with her hunch all those years ago.
Dr. Younger and Dr. Aimee agreed this finding needed a jazzy new name, so they have coined a new phrase for it, calling it “the female eggjaculate.”
In reviewing the specimens further, Dr. Younger and Dr. Aimee discovered that there is a small percentage of women (3.7%) who DO release eggs in their ejaculate, with 1.2% releasing more than one egg at a time.
There’s great promise in this discovery because female eggjaculation could radically change how egg retrievals are done if they can isolate the mechanism that causes this to happen within the female anatomy. Imagine a time when women never have to spend thousands of dollars on egg freezing. They can just take a cup and go in a room and watch a video. The playing field is now level.
What’s Next?
Dr. von Hyman of the Society of Vaginal Health, who has both participated in the research, and provided multiple samples says this about the discovery, “I’m passionate about this project because it could offer new ways of preserving fertility for women without drugs or surgery. As I always say, what is good for the vagina is good for the world.” In the next round of research, Dr von Hyman hopes to experiment with natural substances to see if hemp, CBD or essential oils might change the frequency with which female eggjaculation is observed.
Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is also hopeful about these findings. “For so long, many people have assumed that women don’t ejaculate often, or that it’s just a random oddity. Or, some think it’s just pee. I’m really delighted to have discovered that it has a function, and it might actually change the field of fertility medicine very quickly if we can find ways to replicate female eggjaculation in our ongoing studies.”
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While this is parody and women cannot ejaculate eggs, Dr. Aimee prays for the day and will work toward this mission of mine which is to find a way for women to have their eggs frozen and undergo IVF procedures without ever needing to take a single shot / undergo surgery.
That day will come but until then she will be working on her next discovery on April 1st.
