70-year-old men in the late 80s had 100 points higher testosterone than men in their 50s today.

When we focus on foods like liver, cod liver oil, beef, raw milk, eggs, just one or two months of these foods increases it by over half.

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Are more women struggling today with getting and staying pregnant than any other time in history?

I would say yes, they are. The reason for that is because what we are

dealing with on an environmental level now and even just thinking about emotional level

as impacting how the human body can reproduce. Our reproductive cells, all of the cells that

make up our reproductive organs have higher amounts of mitochondria per cell.

And there's a lot more in our environment, in our food, how we live, that creates mitochondrial dysfunction.

With that mitochondrial dysfunction, you aren't able to produce enough energy necessary for that

cells, tissues, organs, proper function. And so when we have this decrease in energy production,

decrease in function, then we're not going to reproduce well. The female egg has anywhere

from 100 to 600,000 mitochondria per cell. And other

non-reproductive body parts have maybe 1 to 2,000 per cell. So it's a huge difference. This is

why your first trimester, you're really tired because there's so much growth happening, so much energy being utilized for the growth of your baby that you are left with feeling like you have nothing left to give.

Just out of nowhere, really, in the last couple of decades, you think more women are like, I can't get pregnant and I don't know why.

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