Women spend thousands on hormone treatments, egg retrievals, and IVF cycles. Yet one of the simplest, most powerful fertility supports and often reason for (non-)success—nutrition, and especially protein—is too often left out of the conversation. We previously focused on how many women over-index on refined carbs, a drag on fertility, and under-index on proteins. However, protein plans an even more directly positive role to reproduction than just general wellbeing. We are saying modern medicine ignores diet entirely, but reproductive care still tends to prioritize technology over the basics, trying to improve the output as opposed to optimizing for the input.
The interesting part? Some traditional societies built fertility practices around food—strategies that cost very little, work with the body’s rhythms, and are increasingly being validated by modern science.