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It’s January and I think everyone I know is on some sort of detox! I get it – I too feel a bit puffy from the holidays and want to start the year off fresh. Plus, my hormones have been off the last few months and it’s just getting worse each cycle. If you are …
What is cleansing for conception? (fertility detox)Read More
There’s been a lot of hype around folic acid for health. We’ve heard for a long time that it’s essential in order to prevent birth defects– specifically neural tube defects like spina bifida and anencephaly. Since these conditions come with devastating consequences, the CDC makes the recommendation that ALL women of childbearing age supplement 400mcg …
Vitex (also know as chaste tree) is often said to be great for fertility, but is it for everyone? You’d think so by reading fertility forums and blogs! But often times it can make a woman’s symptoms worse. Join Kelly LeGendre and I as we talk about vitex; what it is, how it works, who …
Alright friends, since we are going to be talking about vaginal steaming today I figured it is okay to call y’all friends since I wouldn’t talk about this to just anyone. So sit back and hear me out before you rule anything out by just hearing the words ‘vaginal steaming’. (And to make it official, …
What is a vaginal steam? (and why YOU should consider doing one)Read More
If you’ve been a regular reader for some time now, you know that I’m a big fan of using plants and herbs in my quest to keep my body healthy, so I’ve begun to look into the benefits of Moringa. And I don’t think there is one area of our world where there are not …
Benefits of Moringa – an antioxidant and very nutritious herbRead More
Everyone has a friend that has “THAT” recipe. You know the one, the recipe that is soooo good that she has to give it out whenever she brings it to a potluck or people don’t leave her alone? All of my friends (and I) absolutely love my friend Kerry’s Tinga recipe. Her tinga is fantastic and everyone …
A major underlying cause of PCOS is high blood sugar. This high blood sugar disrupts ovarian function and leads to high testosterone. Blood sugar can be raised by stress (I seem to do a good job of this in my body!), but diet is also a major player. Quitting sweet foods can be difficult, but …
When I was first diagnosed with PCOS I didn’t make the connection between my infertility and my diet. More than ten years after that first diagnosis I met a naturopath who helped me connect the dots between PCOS and my high-carb and high-sugar diet. She put me on an anti-inflammatory diet – increasing my intake …
Herbs can bring relief to a body that is ill as well as help to balance the hormone system. In this podcast you can join me as I speak to Jessie Hawkins, master herbalist and founder of Vintage Remedies. We talk about the benefit of herbs and she discusses different herbal options based on diagnosis. …
If you are trying to get pregnant, it’s important to consume enough foods that properly nourish your body, especially those high in vitamin B. Vitamin B isn’t actually a singular vitamin, but rather a family, of vitamins that function best as a group. These vitamins work synergistically to support countless functions of the body. Red …
We’ve talked a lot about going gluten-free (check the links at the bottom), and I know many of my readers are gluten-free, as is my family. But there is also this thinking out there that it’s some type of “fad” diet, or that people only do it to try to lose weight, or that it’s …
Most people do not realize that by reaching the proper weight six months prior to when you want to conceive, you can significantly increase your ability to get pregnant, and what you eat before conception can significantly impact your fertility as well as your baby’s health. Careful attention to nutrition in the months before conception can …
Since last week Peggy shared her story about healing PCOS (among other maladies) with a primal/paleo diet, I thought I’d pick up the diet investigation series we began last month and dissect this particular diet a bit. I read The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson last summer and follow a number of “primal” bloggers. As …
I asked Tiffany of Nature Moms to do a short interview about her “nourished vegetarian” diet. She’s one that brings a lot of the Weston A Price principles into eating a plant based diet. She was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2006 at the age of 28 and has learned and blogged so …
There seem to be only two sides to this story. People who wholeheartedly embrace the vegetarian diet and those who are adamantly against it. Information in books and on the web seem like two children fighting over who has the best bicycle, shouting from the rooftops: “Meat will kill you….it’s rotting flesh in your intestines!!” …
