Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin In December 2023, the FDA cleared the PherDal insemination kit for use at home with out a ...
[+] prescription. Tulsi Gabbard, the former US Congresswoman for Hawaii's second congressional district from 2013 to 2021, recently opened up about her unexplained infertility diagnosis last week. Infertility affects ten to 15% of the US population in the United States.
In 30% of those cases, the cause is unexplained, which translates into around 12 million women in the US who struggle to conceive a child. According to Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche, CEO of PherDal Fertility Science , unexplained infertility clinically correlates with dysbiosis of the reproductive microbiome.
"Understanding this dynamic has been called the new frontier for reproductive science by world-renowned clinicians," said Hintzsche. Hintzsche created the PherDal kit—which is a play on the word 'fertile'—to try and solve her own infertility challenges. "The PherDal Kit offers people the opportunity to perform intracervical insemination (ICI) to place sperm just one inch lower than IUI with the longest and only sterile insemination syringe available," she said.
"This unique approach is as familiar to use as a tampon but allows for ICI to be safely performed in the privacy of the home." Scientific rigor Two utility patents and the largest clinical cohort studies "I made 200 kits in 2022 that sold out in 90 days, resulting in 34 beautiful children born into the worl.