I  hear this a lot, “I have endo so there’s nothing I can do.”

Well that isn’t quite true. Just because conventional medicine doesn’t have a cure for something, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a path that leads to healing.

Conventional medicine is stuck on the drug and cut approach to health. Those can be quite useful if you break your leg or have a ruptured appendix, but that approach does not work for chronic conditions. Endometriosis is a chronic...

Over six million women struggle with infertility today. That number was less than one million in 1980. If we want to find answers to infertility, we need to take a look at what has changed over the past forty years.

Dietary Fat

Before the 1980s it was common for people to eat liver once a week and cook their own food from scratch. Now we eat fast food or cook from cans and boxes with ingredients we can’t pronounce.

Up to the mid 1980s, French fries were made with lard or beef tallow...

I know it’s not PC to recommend beef as a healthy food, but it’s high time we overcome some misinformation. If you want to get pregnant and have a healthy baby, you need the right nutrients and beef is an excellent way to get those nutrients.

Choline

Choline is essential for a healthy pregnancy and baby and it is recommended that women get at least 450 mg daily. One cup of Brussels sprouts and broccoli contain the most choline in the plant world, 63 mg, while 3 oz of liver...

While COVID is disrupting all our lives, for someone struggling with infertility, it’s not just scary and inconvenient; it means even more heartbreaking delays to motherhood. As IFV transfers are cancelled and treatments postponed, you may feel a range of emotions from anger to hopelessness.

But don’t give up! Here are some things you can do while you wait that will increase your chance of success with IVF or possibly lead to a natural pregnancy.

1. Get Your DNA Tested – Our...

When we think of having a baby, we want three things to happen; a conception, holding onto the baby, and nourishing the baby to term. Sometimes holding onto the baby is difficult and the pregnancy ends with a devastating miscarriage. About 2% of women will experience a second miscarriage and 1% will experience a third which is called recurrent miscarriage.

While having one miscarriage is not all that uncommon, having two or more is, but the good news is there are steps you can take to give...

In America, 10 in 100 women have trouble getting or staying pregnant. That’s over six million women! Way too many if you ask me.

The best option we have for treating infertility is in vitro fertilization or IVF. If you are under the age of 35 and do three cycles, you have about a 40% chance of getting pregnant with IVF, but if you are over the age of 42, that chance drops to 4%. Those really aren’t great odds.

In addition to poor odds, it will cost around $33,000 for 3 cycles...

You can find my guest blog post here on why you need to reduce toxic exposure to boost fertility and increase your chances of getting pregnant. 

Live well and enjoy!

Annette

With climate change and concern over the environment and animal welfare, going vegan seems to be the hot thing right now. We definitely need to make some changes in how we treat animals and how we raise food, but is a vegan diet a good choice for making a baby?

No, and I realize that will ruffle some feathers, but hear me out because I really do want you to realize your dream of being a mom.

Plant foods do not contain vitamin A. I know what your thinking, “but they have beta carotene...

Here's an article I wrote for Family Health Advocacy.

https://familyhealthadvocacy.com/increase-fertility-naturally/

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness month so we’ll be seeing all those pink ribbons showing up on junk food which seems a little hypocritical. Cancer and junk food just don’t mix, but one thing you won’t see or hear anything about is iodine, an affordable mineral that could literally save your breasts and your life; and if you want, it could also help you get pregnant.

Every cell in your body needs iodine, but the reproductive organs and thyroid gland particularly need it....