1:45.  This shows up in development as well when the neonatal brain is built for a ketogenic environment.  When we knock out ketones or the ability to use ketones in animal studies actually shows catastrophic energy failure despite normal amounts of glucose in the brain cannot develop grow or function in normal ways while it's developing.

2:04.  Pregnancy has also been called accelerated starvation where women who are pregnant get into ketosis far faster as pregnancy advances so when women are in the third trimester it's actually very easy for them to get into ketosis even when eating carbohydrates at levels that would normally kick other people out of ketosis and that's because those ketones freely cross the placenta into the developing fetuses because the brain requires those ketones to function normally and also reconstitute into fatty acids that make up the physical the building blocks of the brain.  And the third trimester especially the brain is growing exponentially needs as much ketones and fat as the mother can provide.  Breast milk also does this as well because breast milk is deliberately ketogenic even children even though there's a high level of lactose in it, they are still producing ketones because their brain requires it.  And Studies have shown that formula-fed babies have far fewer ketones than breastfed babies.  So the default, the human brain is designed to run on fat and ketones and be built from cholesterol, not from constant dietary glucose and seed oils that are very poor substitute for what your brain is requiring.  So your brain is actually built out of cholesterol and animal source nutrition.  Cholesterol works as structural components.  The brain is roughly 2% of the body weight but contains over 25% of the body's cholesterol.  Cholesterol is a rate limiting step for myelin which is white matter insulation and synapse formation.  So this makes the signals in the brain faster and connect to more cells so that makes your brain and nervous system more powerful.  Lower cholesterol means fewer synapses, fewer connections with different cells and impaired brain growth and development of this myelin which slows down conductivity of these signals from your neurons.  

3:54.  Statins have even been shown to be iotrogenic, meaning that they are man-made medical-based cause of harm and can cause neurodegeneration.  So fat soluble statins can cross the blood brain barrier and blunt the brains cholesterol synthesis.  So it prevents the brain from making its own cholesterol which it's made out of.  Whatever you want to say about cholesterol in the arteries and whether or not that leads to arterial sclerosis which I believe the evidence shows very clearly that it does not, you cannot say that the cholesterol made in your brain has anything to do with that because it's passed the blood-brain barrier.  It does not get into the bloodstream in it's not able to cross from the brain into your bloodstream.  So the only thing you're doing while taking a Statin and slowing down your brains production of cholesterol is actually slowing down and damaging your brain.  And this is why the FDA has required warning labels on statins saying that it can cause memory issues, cognition, and other sorts of neurological conditions as well.  There was also a withdrawal and rechallenge study in Alzheimer's patients back in 2012, where they took 18 patients who were on statins who had Alzheimer's and tested their cognition score, then stopped their statins and then tested them 6 weeks later without doing anything else, and they found that their cognition scores improved across

WOMEN WHO EAT A LOT OF FAST FOOD MAY TAKE LONGER TO BECOME PREGNANT

EATING FAST FOOD LINKED TO INFERTILITY

Lisa Rapaport reported on a study conducted by the Robinson Research Institute and the University of Adelaide in Australia

that showed the eating fast-food 4 times a week double the rate of infertility in women from 8% to 16%.  Nothing to sneeze at, particularly given the difficulty that some women have at getting pregnant in the first place due to age and factors besides diet.  So fast-food doesn't make women infertile the report will claim; it simply means that eating junk food may cause a delay with some woman in getting pregnant.

Compared to women who generally avoided fast food, women who indulged four or more times a week before they conceived took almost a month longer to become pregnant, the study of 5,598 first-time mothers in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK found.

39% of women conceived in one month of having sex with their partner without contraception, obviously.  

But here's the kicker: 8% experienced infertility and failed to conceive after 12 months of trying.  

Overall, 2,204 women, or 39 percent, conceived within one month of when they began having sex with their partner without contraception and 468, or 8 percent, experienced infertility and failed to conceive after 12 months of trying.

That 8% infertility is just an average, not including an average or subgroup of women eating fast-food.  Fast-food is the advertising euphemism to make junk food palatable.

While women who rarely or never ate fast food had an 8 percent risk of infertility, the risk was 16 percent among women who ate fast food at least four times weekly.

A healthier diet for most folks is to eat lots of polyphenols in their daily diet.  That means lots of plant products, but not just any plant products.  You can't eat grapes all day long and expect to be healthy.  No, I am talking about low-glycemic fruits and vegetables, which turns out to be greens and dark or red colored fruit.  Low-glycemic is the key.  

“Fast foods contain high amounts of saturated fat, sodium, and sometimes sugar,” said lead study author Jessica Grieger of the Robinson Research Institute and the University of Adelaide in Australia.

But just as the study asserts its conclusions, the authors retract it . . . sort of . . . by disclaiming any direct relationship between diet and health.  Oh, brother.  I cannot think of any greater or obvious connection in the world.  People can absorb a lot of unhealthy habits and put on years but might find themselves aging poorly without noticing it.  Or maybe they do notice it, but cannot find a way to stop or a way out of their unhealthy habits.  I would go further to say that male fertility is also connected to eating well.  

Although these dietary components and their relationship to fertility has not been specifically studied in human pregnancies, higher amounts of saturated fatty acids were identified in oocytes (an egg cell in the ovary) of women undergoing assisted reproduction and studies in mice have demonstrated that a high-fat diet had a toxic effect on the ovaries,” Grieger said by email. “We believe that fast food may be one factor mediating infertility through altered ovarian function.”

The Eurekalert concluded that 

. . . while intake of fruit and fast foods affected time to pregnancy, pre-pregnancy intake of green leafy vegetables or fish did not.

Meaning that the vegetables and fish did not disrupt or cause any delay in time to getting pregnant.  

There are other culprits to infertility besides junk food.  Lisa Rapaport's report lists a few from the study. 

The risk increases with age, and can also be exacerbated by smoking, excessive drinking, stress, an unhealthy diet, too much exercise, being overweight or obese or having sexually transmitted infections.

Women in the current study were typically overweight and most of them ate fast food at least twice a week, the study team notes in Human Reproduction. 

There are ways to boost fertility naturally.