Why Chocolate is Fertility-Friendly (+3 Recipes You’ll Want to Try) Adapted from original post: August 18, 2018 by Elizabeth Cherevaty With all this holiday chocolate lying about, you may be wondering whether chocolate fits into a healthy fertility diet? The sweet news: YES, my Well Conceived Fertility Diet I’ve developed for my clients (reflecting dozens of published medical journals, thousands of hours in clinical practice and all the ways I personally nourished myself before naturally conceiving my healthy baby at 39)…includes chocolate! The not-so-sweet news: the SUGAR part of the chocolate needs to be given the boot! The health benefits of dark chocolate and raw cacao beans are due to the minerals and antioxidants these products contain. In fact, raw cocoa … Read More
Well Conceived Fertility Now Available As An Online Course
The wait is over! My Well-Conceived Fertility bundle is finally here! If we’ve been connected for a while, you’ll know that I’m passionate about helping hopeful parents conceive healthy, happy babies. What you may not know is that I’ve created a special online course to teach moms- and dads-in-the-making how to become their most fertile selves AND increase the inheritance of health they will pass on to their future child. It’s called Well Conceived Fertility, and I’m delighted to announce she’s HERE: fully refreshed, completely updated, and infused with all the love, wisdom and insight I’ve poured in to help you bring your dream baby home to your arms. In Well Conceived Fertility, I’ve designed a 6-step journey to help … Read More
Conception Confidence
I share my experience with both vulnerability and sensitivity for those who have struggled deeply with infertility. I hope that my story is one of hope and possibility for anyone who’s struggling with their fertility journey and desires a different experience. -Dr. Liz A Decision About My Fertility Future A few years ago, I made a decision. I decided that I was NOT going to STRUGGLE with fertility. I know this might sound hard to believe. You might be thinking, “How can anyone who wants a baby possibly DECIDE not to struggle with fertility?” Yes, I’d experienced big emotions: vulnerability, sadness, disappointment, frustration (i.e., generally lost it a few times) when Aunt Flo came to visit. Yes, I’d suffered the … Read More
5 Ways to Boost Egg Quality & IVF Success
There’s a lot riding on an IVF cycle. Although IVF is the most advanced modern medical approach to infertility – and a godsend for thousands of now-parents – on average (assuming no other interventions such as the ones we’re about to discuss here) each couple has just about a 30% chance of bringing home a baby, after 4 IVF cycles. With each cycle costing an average of $15,000 – not to mention the physical and emotional toll of going through fertility treatments – we definitely want to make it count. Egg quality issues are among the top reasons for IVF failure. In this blog, we’re going to explore 5 ways to enhance follicle and egg quality in advance of IVF … Read More
Feeling Fertile: 4 Mindset Shifts to Enhance IVF Success
In this article, we explore how our mindset informs our physiology when it comes to hormone health, fertility, and our emotional experience. Plan Your Pre-Season Just as it takes three months for the body to complete an egg’s development before ovulation, it takes the same amount of time for the eggs that will be retrieved for IVF to be cultivated, and to respond to the medications that will be used to increase the number of eggs retrieved. Similarly, it takes three months to prepare sperm in the male reproductive system. During this three month preconception season, both eggs and sperm are sensitive to the quality of your diet and the level of stress you’re both under. Just as athletes prepare … Read More
3 Lessons I’ve Learned About Fertility
Looking back on when I first started working with people with infertility as a new naturopathic doctor, there were a few things I didn’t realize would become so relevant to my practice – and my clients’ success. Thank Goodness for Toxicology One: I didn’t realize how grateful I’d be for having (somewhat blindly) chosen Biomedical Toxicology as my major in undergrad. I really didn’t know what it was – only that it was at the U of G, sounded “biology-related”, and had co-op (which my mom encouraged me to go for so that I could put myself through school – it worked!). Thank goodness for toxicology, which taught me that the human body is capable of releasing almost any toxin … Read More
Male Fertility: What You Need to Know
Although infertility affects 1 in 6 couples worldwide, with male and female factors each accounting for 50% of a couple’s potential issues, many couples don’t realize just how relevant a future father’s health today is to their overall chances of successful pregnancy. The Most Important Fact about Sperm The most important fact you need to know about sperm is that it takes 100 days to make them. Why is this fact so mind-blowing? It means that in just a few month’s time, a man can make changes in his health that will significantly change his sperm quality. In fact, we’ve seen men have their sperm count and quality improve drastically within 6 months of individualized naturopathic care. I’ve even had a fertility specialist ask what I’d … Read More
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