Dr. Mark Hyman

So they're all very helpful.

Okay, what else can you do?

Well, you can learn how to regulate stress in your nervous system.

And when you're chronically stressed, it disrupts ovulation, lowers sperm count.

I mean, if you take a bunch of soldiers who are healthy 20-year-old guys and you march them overnight, their sperm count drops dramatically.

Their testosterone drops dramatically.

Their thyroid drops dramatically.

So stress affects every system in your body, including fertility, ovulation, sperm production.

So learn some simple practices because, you know, stress happens to you automatically.

But learning how to activate your relaxation system is an active process.

So meditation, breath work, Andrew Huberman calls it non-sleep deep rest, which otherwise is known as yoga nidra.

It's been around for thousands of years.

You can go to Spotify, just do yoga nidra or go on YouTube and do a 10 minute or 20 minute or 30 minute one.

Very important.

Getting your sleep optimized, also critical.

Because if you don't sleep, your stress response is much higher.

Exercise also really helps.

Helps reduce the stress, but also improves your reproductive hormones.

These aren't really small tweaks.

These are foundational things.