{"id":91101,"date":"2026-06-24T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91101"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:07:56","slug":"most-ivf-add-on-treatments-have-no-effect-on-fertility-or-remain-unproven-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/24\/most-ivf-add-on-treatments-have-no-effect-on-fertility-or-remain-unproven-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Most IVF &#8216;add-on&#8217; treatments have no effect on fertility or remain unproven, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26nUCy.img?w=768&h=614&m=6\" alt=\"More than 70% of IVF patients in the UK, Australia and New Zealand pay for one or more add-on during IVF treatment. Photograph: Antonio Marquez lanza\/Getty Images\" width=\"669\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most IVF \u201cadd-on\u201d treatments sold to people hoping to boost their chances of having children are not backed by reliable evidence, fail to boost fertility and may be a complete waste of money,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/most-ivf-add-on-treatments-have-no-effect-on-fertility-or-remain-unproven-study-says\/ar-AA26o4Ea?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a3b9daec9484464b10fdaf56d3ddf1c&ei=12\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Most IVF \u201cadd-on\u201d treatments sold to people hoping to boost their chances of having children are not backed by reliable evidence, fail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IVF.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91102,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91101\/revisions\/91102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}