Brigid TitgemeierBeingBrigid Functional Nutrition · Transforming Women's Health Using Food as Medicine

Inflammation: The Hidden Threat to Fertility

17 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from her YouTube video, Brigid Titgemeier explains that inflammation is a fundamental driver of many fertility problems. She argues that inflammation directly impairs cellular function, which degrades both egg and sperm quality and disrupts the brain’s ability to interpret hormonal signals. Inflammation is also tightly linked to insulin resistance and gut health, creating a systemic web that undermines reproductive health. Titgemeier criticizes modern medicine for treating organ systems in isolation, which obscures the role of inflammation, and she points out a widespread education gap: women are rarely taught about their menstrual cycles, natural fertility changes with age, or why inflammation matters. The overall message is that understanding and addressing inflammation is essential for improving fertility outcomes.

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You've said that inflammation is literally at the root of a number of fertility issues. What do you mean by that? And why is this not more commonly known amongst women? Chapter one of my book is called How Inflammation hijacks your fertility. Because it really is so crucial to how our cells work. And modern medicine has done a disservice in so many different ways. But one thing is that we've segregated all the body organ systems and inflammation itself directly impairs how your cells function on a cellular level. And that, of course, is going to impact both egg and sperm quality. It' affect the brain's ability to interpret and respond to hormones. It is tightly linked with insulin resistance and gut health. And all of these factors actually come together that we have to relearn or learn for the first time how our body actually works, because we're really not ever told what's normal. We're not taught about our cycles, we're not taught about what happens with our natural fertility as we get older. And we're definitely not told why inflammation plays such a big role.