Episode #137 - The Fertility Crisis No One Can Ignore | Dr Marina Straszak-Suri

Episode #137 - The Fertility Crisis No One Can Ignore | Dr Marina Straszak-Suri

From The Conscious Man 7 by Todd Cave

June 7, 2026 · 1h 29m

About this episode

The episode discusses the fertility crisis and its implications on health, featuring insights from Dr. Marina Straszak-Suri.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Todd Cave

Guest: Dr Marina Straszak-Suri

Topics covered

  • fertility
  • health
  • nutrition
  • environment
  • reproductive medicine

Keywords

  • fertility crisis
  • sperm counts
  • nutrition
  • lifestyle
  • reproductive health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Ottawa

Books & works: Optimize Your Fertility Naturally

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