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Guaranteed Human.

This episode contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse.

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You can't ovulate harder if you think about it better and you pay more attention to it.

You can't do anything like that.

So all we have is what people sell us.

And unfortunately, we will buy whatever you are selling

when you're in this.

When Sarah Davis begins trying to get pregnant

in her mid-30s, she discovers a world of products for sale,

promising to increase her fertility and give her a child.

I read every article.

I followed every supplement company on Instagram.

I fell down the rabbit hole of the wellness industry.

That is just utilizing Instagram to sell you crap you don't need.

Sarah now works as a creative director for a clothing company, but she spent her 20s as a fashion

designer in Nashville, sewing bedazzled tour costumes for icon Dolly Parton.

When I first talked to Sarah on the phone, she came across as street smart and impervious to

bullshit.

But the quest to get pregnant can unmoor even the most grounded among us.

I racked up so much debt trying to do all this.

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