I still traveled for research, though—and when I did, I often noticed parallels between my new doctor’s theories about infertility and some of the ideas I was encountering about the changes humanity must make if we are to avoid collapse. Her advice had pretty much boiled down to this: before you can take care of another human being you have to take care of yourself. In a sense she was saying that I had to give myself some fallow time, as opposed to the mechanistic “push harder” approach that dominates Western medicine.
