Infertility signals deeper health problems. People diagnosed with infertility have higher risks of heart attack, stroke, metabolic disease, and cancer. Brigid Titgemeier says many doctors dismiss inflammation and environmental toxins as irrelevant, but infertility should prompt broader health assessment.
One of the stats that I find so concerning is the fact that if you have infertility, you have a greater risk of a serious health problem or dying earlier. Heart attack, stroke, metabolic disease, cancer. And by no means is it that infertility is contributing to these things directly, but that has to make us step back and say, your fertility is a health marker. There's something underlying at a cellular level that is actually contributing to both your infertility and to this later disease risk. So I think for women specifically, often infertility is the very first disease we've ever is the first thing going wrong. It's really a big red flag warning sign that your body is not functioning to its best ability at a cellular level. And it's time that we can pay attention and see what we can do differently.
I love this approach so much because it makes so much intuitive sense. And when you go from doctor to doctor, so many women are faced with these doctors who will say, oh, inflammation has nothing to do with this, or environmental toxins are something that just Instagram influencers are talking about that play no role in what you're experiencing.
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