Andrew Huberman
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So I was going to get to this later, but I'll just ask now, how concerned are you about plastic water bottles and...
I mean, we can't avoid exposure to plastics.
And I think one thing that Dr. Rhonda Patrick has done nicely is to highlight the fact that the really small, hence microplastics, are really the ones that we worry about the most because they can get into so many tissues.
But we're constantly ingesting plastics.
Some of them are just excreted because they're big, but some of them get into our cells.
Are there any data or observational data that have you genuinely concerned that plastics are becoming more of an issue vis-a-vis fertility?
I realize I'm jumping around here a bit, but in just thinking about what seems to be on a lot of people's minds, I took an informal poll of some people heading into this because obviously I only know my own experience as a male.
So a number of
I asked the question, what are you wondering about?
And a common question was,
it seems that for some women, if they've been pregnant once before, they have it in mind that it's going to be easy for them to get pregnant again later or easier.
And of course, they understand the logic that they were younger before by definition, even if it's a year, right?
And that fertility drops off with time.
But there seems to be this kind of
belief that if one was pregnant before that it's going to be possible to get pregnant again within the normal windows of biological windows for getting pregnant.
Is there any evidence that having been pregnant before makes it easier to get pregnant again that's separate from the fact that obviously they were pregnant before?
I realize that it's a convoluted question, but it's not a perfect experiment, right?
Because they've been pregnant before, obviously they can get pregnant.
If they haven't, the control group is not a very
It's not a good control group for an experiment, but for within the person, if they've been pregnant before, can they exhale a little bit that, yes, they can get pregnant?