Balancing your hormones can be tricky, but it’s not impossible. Especially when you change your diet and get all of the nutrients you need! The following sample fertility diet menu and tips are brought to you by Liz Schau, a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition for Certified Holistic Health Counseling, as well as a …
Fertility Diet
What is a fertility diet? It’s simply a way of eating specific foods for fertility that support hormone balance and egg/sperm development. It also helps build up nutrient stores to provide essential building blocks for a growing baby! The best part is, often people find that eating this way helps clear up a lot of other health issues too. It’s a great way to eat to support good physical and mental health.
There are some fabulous foods for fertility that can not only support hormone balance but also nourish your body to increase the chances of conception. A few simple dietary changes are all you need.
Four dietary changes that will increase fertility
When I was 23 I finally worked up the nerve to ask my doctor how to get more regular periods. He gave me some information about medications, but he never once asked me what I ate on a daily basis. Thank goodness for google and authors, because over the years I’ve been able to figure …
Super foods for fertility
What you eat is so important for your fertility – it was so important to mine that as soon as I started to make dietary changes I began to see results! It took some time, but I gradually went from ovulating once or twice a year to every 8 weeks…then every 4 weeks…and finally every …
Fertility Diet, the best way to eat when you’re trying to get pregnant
Years ago I sat in my doctor’s office and we talked about preparing for pregnancy. I had recently stopped taking the Pill and new that before the regular withdrawal bleeds that it gave me, I rarely ever ovulated and got my period – and this couldn’t mean good things for getting pregnant! I asked all …
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Vitamin A and Fertility
Tears welled up as I threw away my first bottle of prenatal vitamins. Three months had gone by and it was empty – I still wasn’t pregnant. So instead of heading to the store to pick up a pregnancy test, I was on my way to pick up my prescription vitamins, the ones my doctor …
Is milk good for fertility?
Other than people who are lactose intolerant, we all pretty much drink milk. The recommendation from many nutritional authorities is 3 cups per day, but is milk good for fertility? Well, there seems to be a couple different trains of thought on this issue, so let’s break it down and figure out what’s best for you. …
MSG and fertility
MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is a flavor enhancer that is commonly added to canned vegetables, soups, processed meats, packaged sweets, chips, basically a large portion of bottled and packaged foods in the store, and most widely known – Chinese food. Now, the FDA has considered MSG to be ‘safe’, but the controversy behind it is great.
Free Fertility Foods Checklist
Confused about what foods to eat in order to balance your hormones and increase your fertility naturally? I’ve prepared a simply fertility foods checklist just for you! This convenient checklist can help you figure out what to eat, as well as give you a weekly look at your food intake. This checklist covers most of …
Could bread be the cause of your infertility?
Did you know that about 40% of all Americans are sensitive or allergic to the gluten found in wheat products? Many don’t even know it (because symptoms vary and it’s often not tested for). 1 out of 133 are severe enough to be labeled as celiac. And if you’ve been trying to get pregnant for …
Eating for natural hormone balance
Natural balance is about eating whole foods and as close to the source as possible. There’s no need to deprive yourself when you’re trying to conceive or balance hormones; there is a vast array of foods that can help you feel great and energized everyday. Nutrition is the foundation for natural hormone balance! You can take …
10 Simple ways to clean up your diet
When most people start thinking about healthier eating and cleaning up their diet, they easily get overwhelmed. And how can you not with all of the information out there? Do you go paleo? Vegetarian? Gluten-free? Dairy-free? All you wanted to do was clean up your diet a bit in order to help naturally balance those …
Maca for hormone balance
Maca is often recommended to help boost fertility and balance hormones, but does it? Maybe. Here’s what you need to know about maca for fertility before you try it. The interview below is one I did with Ann Melin of Women’s Wellness Collaborative, a Certified Clinical Master Herbalist, all about maca and whether or not …
Vitamin D and fertility (why you need it AND the dangers of supplementation)
It’s important for our health and fertility to make sure we get plenty of nutrients into our bodies, each vitamin and mineral is important in its own right. But vitamin D and fertility have a special connection – many studies have shown that women dealing with infertility often have low levels of this vitamin. And …
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Trans Fat and fertility – how this change can help increase natural fertility
We’ve all heard that trans fats aren’t good for us. Some cities have even banned them, and restaurants are starting to eliminate them as well. So let’s chat a bit about the link between trans fat and fertility, or to be more precise, how it may contribute to infertility. We know trans fats aren’t good for us. …
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Mindful and compassionate eating
We’ve all heard, ad nauseam, the term “relationship with food.” We’ve heard how it’s not about diet but about lifestyle. People, desperate to lose weight for all sorts of reasons, force themselves to make large changes over night. The vast majority of those people are successful in the short-term, but find themselves back in their …