How to Support FEMALE FERTILITY with Functional Nutrition
The first moment of a child's life is when the father's sperm penetrates the mother's ovum (or egg). Those eggs have been present in the woman's ovaries since she was in her mother's womb!
THE INVESTMENT OF PREGNANCY
In nature, females have to be more selective about when (and with whom) they become pregnant.
They have a limited number of eggs and are only fertile during a small window of their monthly cycle.
Pregnancy is a huge risk and cost for women, so their bodies are designed to invest in a child only when there is a high chance of success.
Through diet and lifestyle, women can support the conditions for a successful and healthy pregnancy.
Avocados, greens, + seafood are particularly nourishing for female fertility.
FOOD IS INFORMATION
Fertility is intricately connected to nutritional status. Food is information, so if your body senses a nutrient deficiency or potential famine, it will not invest in a pregnancy at that time.
The same is true with stress: in nature, pregnancy makes a woman vulnerable. So if the body senses that it is not safe, it will wait to get pregnant until the threat has passed.
In our modern world, those threats often look like everyday stress, toxins, poor diet, or a hyper-focus on conceiving in the first place.
SUPPORT FEMALE FERTILITY
prioritize nutritional wealth
start storing up nutrients and sending signals that it's a good time to conceive
balance hormones
increase healthy fats, support liver detox, and identify what is driving the imbalance
supplement herbs + nutrients
B vitamins, minerals, selenium, maca root, dong quai, chasteberry
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References
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Dietary Supplements. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Retrieved from https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-all/
Jones, D. S., Bland, J. S., & Quinn, S. (2010). Textbook of Functional Medicine. Institute for Functional Medicine.
Gaby, A. R. (2017). Nutritional Medicine (2nd ed.). Fritz Perlberg Publishing.
Vitti, A. Food and Supplements for Optimal Fertility. Flo Living. Retrieved from https://www.floliving.com/boost-fertility/.