TL;DR: Too Long, Didn’t Read

Recent social development has led to a delay in parenthood into mid to late 30s to early 40s at a time natural fertility tends to decline rapidly. We now increasingly track cycles through apps, freeze eggs and sperm, and turn to IVF for starting families. Meanwhile, our everyday diet from sugary breakfast cereals and processed microwave lunches to late-night fast food quietly undercut our reproductive health. The food our grandparents would barely recognize is inflaming the very cellular machinery we later spend thousands to preserve or “fix” with treatments for “infertility”.