Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge and the founder of 1,000

hours outside and I'm beyond delighted and honored to have Dr. Ann Shippey here. Welcome, Dr. Ann.

You have written this incredible book, incredibly timely book about a topic. I know that can be

really difficult to talk about about the preconception revolution,

a science-backed path to your fertility and generational health. And that's the hope there, right?

It's like when you start to change some of the things, you can have this generational impact.

So welcome to you. And huge congrats on your book.

Oh, thank you so much. And thank you so much for being so interested. I can tell you're

really dedicated to getting great information out. I read this book a while ago called The 100

Year Lie. I got it from my midwife. She had a little shot for a while, and she had always had

great books there. And this book parallels the rise in chemicals, different toxins in the

environment. Maybe it went from like 1900 to 2000. I don't remember the exact details. But one of the

things I really noticed was was fertility and how it was like as these things into, I don't think

it was like a direct correlation, but it was just showing. You know, as these things have risen in the environment, we've started to have these different health problems, and it made me consider about my own kids, you know, you just, these are the things you don't really expect to be a problem. And then when it becomes a situation that's hard, and you don't really know what's going on, it can be really difficult to deal with. And so the book is phenomenal, very comprehensive. We're going to talk about a lot of the topics in

here and people can pick up their own copy. But before we get to some of the specific topics about

fertility, can you just tell us the fact that you used to be a chemical engineer?

I was a chemical engineer for IBM for almost 10 years, and I got to do

really amazing lead teams to do incredible things ahead of the time with actually reducing the

environmental load from our manufacturing process. So chloral chlorocarbons were what we were using for cleaning our PC boards at the time,

and it was going to be mandated to get rid of them. But I got to lead a team to develop new materials and get it implemented into our manufacturing processes. So we didn't have to use it well ahead of when it was mandated, because at the time, IBM was like, okay, this is not good for the environment. We need to get on it and we need to get this done, but still produce the

same quality of a machine, of computer. So unfortunately, though, I think all my time in manufacturing

was part of why I got sick. So I had the, I probably had, I mean, still had a mouthful of

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