Ever wonder just how many good eggs your have? Well, now there may be a way for you to find out.

A new medical test, called Plan Ahead, is the first fertility test now being marketed that supposedly measures how many viable eggs are available for conception. The $350 test, marketed by Repromedix will be geared toward women who are trying to decide when to have children.

Dr. Benjain Leader, chief medical officer for the company, compares it to “checking the gas gauge on a car to see how much is left in the tank,” according to an article that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. The test works by measuring three hormones closely linked to the number of eggs present in a woman’s ovaries.

There is debate, of course. Some fertility experts worry that the manufacturers are capitalizing on women’s anxieties about their biological clocks. Others say that the medical reliability of this test has not been clearly established. No matter–within the next several weeks there should be centers in about a dozen states that will be offering this test.

Marina