Robert Kiltz

And so their peak fertile period is between day 12 and 14, essentially.

Wow.

but depends how long the sperm may last in the uterine tubal environment, which may be longer than that.

But, you know, it's a big, important timeframe, but people are traveling or they're at work all the time.

But there's a lot of problems with women not ovulating regularly.

They might not even know where they're at in their cycle.

A lot of

Anovulation, we call it.

They're not ovulating regularly.

Or they have polycystic ovarian syndrome, which affects many women, which I think is related to some metabolic disorder, which means they might not have a period for a year, two, or three in many cases.

Typically, women with polycystic ovarian syndrome may have a menstrual period 30 to 40 days apart.

That's pretty common.

Some women might have it three times a year, but there are some cases where they don't get them at all.

except unless they take a hormone pill to stimulate that.

But that's becoming more and more common, and I think it's related to our dietary environment.

We're eating too many carbohydrates, a low fat diet, believe it or not, and we're eating three to six meals a day, which is not natural to our species.

It's a lot, right?

And then there's the growing concern with plastics.

Do you think that's affecting fertility?

Well, I think the environmental plastics and the pesticides and the heavy metals and the damage from smog in the air, from industrial pollution, cars and things like that, those are all factors.