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Episode #137 - The Fertility Crisis No One Can Ignore | Dr Marina Straszak-Suri
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- The Conscious Man 7 Podcast
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- Jun 7, 2026
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Summary
What if your fertility is not just about having a baby, but a real-time report card on everything modern life is doing to your body? Most people only start thinking about fertility when they're already in trouble. By then, years of stress, toxins, poor nutrition, and environmental damage have quietly been rewriting the story, in both men and women. In this episode of The Conscious Man 7 Podcast, I sit down with Dr Marina Straszak-Suri, OBGYN with over 30 years of clinical experience, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, functional medicine advocate, and author of Optimize Your Fertility Naturally , to explore why fertility is one of the most important, and most ignored, health conversations of our time. Dr Marina did not arrive at this work through a textbook. Decades on the front line of women's health, watching conventional medicine hand out prescriptions while ignoring the deeper questions, why are healthy people struggling? Why are sperm counts down over 50% in two generations? Why are we treating fertility as a women's issue when the science now shows men play an equal and often overlooked role? — pushed her toward a completely different model of care: one that integrates nutrition, lifestyle, environment, and the emerging science of restorative reproductive medicine. In this conversation we cover: why sperm counts have fallen by more than 50% in two generations, and why they are still falling the hidden role men play in fertility, including how paternally expressed genes shape placental formation and pregnancy health how stress, sleep deprivation, and poor nutrition are silently degrading reproductive outcomes for both sexes endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins, the everyday chemicals quietly dismantling hormonal he…