Them Before Us #111 | The fertility killers hiding in your house | Katy Talento

Your LED bulbs, your underwear, and your toast might all be quietly working against your fertility. Harvard-trained epidemiologist Katy Talento is back on our podcast to explain why, and what you can actually do about it. At Them Before Us, we spend a lot of time on what happens downstream: a culture that tells women to delay, then an industry that sells their fertility back to them with another woman's eggs, another woman's womb, and a lab. In this episode, Katy and Jenn go upstream. We cover what modern life is doing to our bodies, why the "career first, babies later" script fails women, and how the choices you make at 19 shape the family your grandkids will grow up in. Children aren't a product to buy back after the fertile years are gone. This one will change how you think about light, college, and your grocery cart. About Katy: Katy Talento is a Harvard-trained epidemiologist, naturopathic doctor, and former Trump White House health policy advisor and Special Assistant to the President. She spent two decades inside the DC healthcare machine, then left to help everyday people and employers outsmart it. Chapters: 0:00 Katy Talento returns 0:57 Scurvy season and the winter slump 3:14 Blue light versus red light 5:08 How light affects sleep and fertility 6:25 Why you should ditch your LED bulbs 7:28 How culture flipped women's fertility upside down 10:37 Egg freezing and the ticking clock 11:47 Why you shouldn't wait once you find the one 12:37 Where you settle shapes future generations 14:00 Rethinking the value of college 20:04 Why the best men are going into the trades 21:50 What government can do about the birth rate 22:48 Microplastics and fertility-killing chemicals 24:31 The administration's step backward on glyphosate 27:05 Why MAHA messaging still matters 29:32 Industry pressure inside the White House 32:31 Where to find Katy Find Katy: Substack: https://katytalento.com Naturopathic practice: https://allbetter.life Employer health plans: https://allbetter.health Instagram, X, LinkedIn: @katytalento Facebook: https://facebook.com/katytalento.nd Mentioned in this episode: Katy's first appearance, episode 99: https://youtu.be/41qEL9H-CFU?si=AkUAP-7eEh9rtC8Y Katy's guest post for Them Before Us, "Infertile": Them Before Us: Website: thembeforeus.com Substack: thembeforeus.substack.com #fertility #infertility #MAHA