Although this podcast episode was published almost a month ago, I spent far less time promoting it as a byproduct of spending far less overall time online, and thus on social media.
But this episode is an important one, as it covers topics that are both deeply relevant for me personally and professionally, and for many women in the culture at large right now.
So, I want you all to get the chance to listen if you haven’t already. Please send this to women in your life who might benefit from it, or whom you know are struggling with these topics.
Infertility is on the rise. As is all of the cultural noise around what’s causing this infertility, what it means — for women, relationships, health, and our species overall — and what we should be doing about it.
And unfortunately, I see a lot of misinformation, a lot of fear-based narratives, and a lot of unnecessary, invasive, and expensive solutions being promoted en mass, feeding upon our desperation and helplessness as women.
I’m almost 40 and I still want to have a family before it’s too late… so I get it! I understand the fear, I understand the pressure, the desperation, the helplessness, potentially even the regret of past decisions.
But here’s the thing that’s protective for me, that’s keeping me sane and empowered as I navigate this delicate yet powerful phase within my final years of reproductive capacity:
I understand how health works.
I understand how MY health works. I understand how conception, fertility, and stress all intertwine and how the delicate dance of these phenomena show up in my body and my daily choices, expanding or contracting my reproductive capacity at any given time.
And you can understand all of this too. I can help you understand this, and you can use this understanding to protect and insulate yourself from all of the unnecessary fear, doubt, desperation, and helplessness that is keeping women in disembodied states — actually moving them farther away from the family they so deeply long to create.
In this episode, I unpack fertility through a bioenergetic lens by explaining how metabolism, thyroid health, micronutrient status, and chronic stress all play foundational roles in a woman’s ability to conceive.
Drawing from Ray Peat’s work and my clinical, professional, and personal experience, I reframe infertility as a sign of deeper metabolic and systemic imbalance — one that is often more workable and reversible than women are typically taught to understand.
In this episode of Nourishing Our Sanity:
We review bioenergetics (a topic I covered early on in my podcast)
How chronic stress, oxidative stress, and survival physiology suppress fertility
Key micronutrients and systemic health factors that support female fertility
Debunking infertility myths and restoring female agency around conception
As I emphasize in the episode, every woman’s body, circumstances, and needs are unique, and I cannot, of course, speak to individual medical needs or conditions, nor can I offer individual medical advice or make claims about what’s possible for women I don’t know or work with personally.
What I DO offer are medical statistics you may not be aware of, scientific breakdowns around how health and fertility actually work, and why so much of what we’re being told about our own health and fertility is deeply harmful to women and to society at large.
Mothers and future mothers play absolutely crucial roles in society, and what we’re seeing with both the rise of infertility and with the solutions being sold to address it represent many underlying problems this culture is dealing with that are now rising to the surface.
For this reason, I believe this is an important topic to learn about even if you’re not called to be a mother yourself.
Please enjoy the episode, and let me know how it lands for you!
Where to find Kymber:
Instagram: @kymbermaulden
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Website: kymbermaulden.com
Email: sheheals@kymber-maulden.com
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