Robert Kiltz

But then let's add in our home environment, the off-gassing of the products that we use in our homes or the makeups or other beauty products that we all use.

Those are factors that

get in through what we breathe, drink, and eat, but also through the skin.

And those can have adverse effects on sperm quality, quantity, egg quality, and other hormone environments.

But it can also cause birth defects.

So in utero,

and or before a fertilization of an egg, where the egg or the sperm in the ovary or the testicle is affected by those pollutants, which damage the egg or the sperm, which may then cause a defect, which may show up in future generations.

Wow, so the air pollution is super toxic.

I was just down in Mexico City.

I'm from Los Angeles, and I grew up in the smog.

So there's a lot out there, but I suspect a lot of it is what we can't see.

Well, there's studies on babies born in cities versus like rural areas.

Well, definitely in the cities versus rural areas.

But what's interesting is in today's environment, so much of the toxins, I believe, comes from the food we eat.

And most of what we eat is shipped around the country and around the world.

So you don't even know what is affected in either the animal products, which may have microplastics or mercury or other toxins that affect things,

And then the plants themselves, which contain 99% of the pesticides because plants don't want to be eaten, they make these pesticides to control and kill the microbes or the macros, which we are herbivores, which may damage your reproductive system.

Right.

Have you seen more infertility issues on vegans and vegetarians compared to carnivore?

I think vegans and vegetarians tend to have more immunologic disorders, which is related to inflammation.