From Inflammation to Conception: Solving the Fertility Puzzle

Coming up on this episode of the Doctor Hyman Show. But if you have omega 3s at adequate levels, it lowers inflammation, it lowers reproductive system inflammation, and it supports hormone function. Now if you're if you're a guy and you have omega 3s in your diet or from supplements, it affects sperm quality, sperm, sperm motility, the amount of semen you make, your testosterone levels, and even the rates of in vitro fertilization. Take fish oil and reading a lot of sardines can have all these benefits. Before we jump into today's episode, I'd like to note that while I wish I could help everyone via my personal practice, there's simply not enough time for me to do this at scale. That's why I've been busy building several passion projects to help you. If you're looking for data about your biology, check out Function Health for real time lab insights. And if you're in need of deepening your knowledge around your health journey, check out my membership community, the Hyman High. And if you're looking for curated and trusted supplements and health products for your health journey, visit my website at drhyman dot com for a summary of my favorite and thoroughly tested products.

Ninety three po two percent of Americans have some level of metabolic dysfunction, meaning they were on somewhere in the spectrum from insulin resistance to pre diabetes to type two diabetes. And this is the thing that screws up both men and women's fertility. Now sex hormones are regulated by our diet. You may not know that. But sex hormones are directly regulated by what you eat. Pretty much everything is regulated by what you eat. If you don't know by now listening to me, ultra-processed foods and sugar and starch are causing massive shifts in our sex hormones. And that's driving the infertility crisis. Our sad diet, our standard American diet, is sixty percent or more from ultra processed foods. The average American consumes anywhere you look at it from 113 to 150 pounds of sugar and a About the same amount of flour.

every year per person. That's almost a pound a day of sugar and flour per person. And that is not something we're used to eating. That's a pharmacologic dose of sugar that's causing dramatic hormonal shifts in our biology. The spiking sugar leads to high insulin levels, that leads to insulin resistance. And then we get blood sugar and hormone imbalances as a result. So what happens? What is the what is the biology here for women? Let's talk about it. It's a little bit different for men and women. But women have high sugar and starch. It drives the insulin. That leads to increased androgen production. Androgens are testosterone. That leads to free testosterone being increased, and that will lead to all sorts of problems like PCOS, for example, which causes irregular, painful heavy periods, so clotting, heavy bleeding, weight gain, hair loss on your head, hair growth on your face, acne, lack of ovulation, as we mentioned. And so this is really not a fun problem to have for women. But it it's often solvable by addressing the root causes of diet and lifestyle. And dometriosis is another factor we talked about.

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