Tell me your journey and what it took for you to go from Western doctor, OBGYN, now to name and call yourself a healer.

I remember reading The Wounded Healer when I was in college.

I think I've always sort of known deep down that that was who I was.

I almost secretly hoped I didn't get into medical school.

I had this whole plan to work with people with disabilities in Italy and live in a home and do all these things.

And so I also... you know, having overcome an eating disorder in my sort of late high school, early college, that was really when I started to understand for myself, okay, this is who I am up until this point.

These are all the tools that I'm bringing in to facilitate my own healing so that I can be a person who can have a conversation, not think about food and body and all these things, how to take back my power.

Maybe they're in their 50s and they're So I'm curious for you, if you had a message for those that maybe are still trying to conceive, what would be the message you have for them?

So tell me what you're proud of.

Let's see.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, every year I feel like there's so much change.

I keep being like, okay, when is the change going to stop? And I mean, I don't mind it.

It does feel like other people, when I look, seem to have much more stability and less change.

Like my sister and I always talk a lot about that.

What would be kind to yourself this year?

So, you know, I'm sure they would love to hear what's the philosophy from an MD who thinks a little bit differently than that?

Yeah, absolutely.

And I, I mean, I think holistically, and there's this whole field of like restorative reproductive medicine, and it's gotten very political, but I think we should all be doing restorative reproductive medicine at the core, which is really restoring cycles, restoring natural fertility whenever possible.

So IVF was actually developed, you know, 40-plus years ago because people had no fallopian tubes, right? Some people had no fallopian tubes, and IVF was created as a way to overcome that.

What we do in IVF is we take two, about two weeks of time.

We stimulate the body with concentrated hormones, so follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, usually an ovulation blocker.

People are coming into the clinic, you know, every other day for two weeks, which can be very inconvenient, especially if you don't live near a clinic.

And what to do in those situations where they feel dismissed?

... causing the male to be infertile?

That's a great question.

So I don't know how reversible it is.

It is usually treatable.

And, you know, let me give you my framework for how I think about sperm.

I think about sperm in three different buckets.

The first bucket is semen analysis completely normal, you know, likely to conceive at home.

So to sum up, from the male perspective, I know we've talked about this earlier, but why don't you summarize for us what are some lifestyle things that they could do to maximize their fertility potential?