September 29, 2018

Fertility Diet Plan

If you want to increase your chances of conceiving a baby, you may be interested in following a natural fertility diet plan.
There are foods that can help boost your fertility and keep you in tip-top condition nutritionally. This will increase your ability to conceive, as well as making your pregnancy less demanding on your body and giving your baby the best possible start in life.

Below are some dietary choices to improve your fertility.

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When preparing for pregnancy, it is important to do everything possible to create a healthy environment for a baby to grow, and that includes following a healthy diet.

Add Fish to Your Diet
If you have not been eating fish lately it’s time to add it to your diet. Opt for cold-water fish such as sardines, shrimp, herring, salmon

and tuna as your best sources of omega 3 fatty acids.These types of fats are essential for your fertility health.
An added benefit of adding fish to your diet is that this omega 3's will also help your baby’s brain and eye development. 

Pregnant women who did not consume enough omega 3 fatty acids in their diet were found to have a higher risk for preterm births, pre-eclampsia, and depression.

Be aware that some deep-sea fish such as tuna can contain high levels of mercury, so do not consume to excess. Since mercury can be dangerous to your developing fetus, it is best to follow the advice of the U.S. FDA or Food and Drug Administration which states that women who are pregnant should consume no more than 12 ounces of fish every week.

Include Fresh Organic Produce
Plant-based foods contain a plethora of vitamins and minerals and this is why it is so important to include fresh produce daily in your diet.

They are also loaded with free-radical busting antioxidants and phytochemicals.
When you buy produce make sure to choose the brightly colored ones, such as red peppers, kale, blueberries, carrots, broccoli, and beets so you will be able to obtain as many nutrients and antioxidants as you can.
For your daily dose of Mother Nature’s health-boosting plant-based foods make sure that you consume as much as 2 and a half cups of vegetables and 2 fruits on a daily basis.

Meats
Look for sources that provide grass-fed meats.

This is to ensure that you will not be consuming any unnecessary antibiotics and hormones. 
Meat from grass-fed animals will serve as an excellent source of essential fatty acids and protein. In addition, this meat is low in saturated fats.

However, you need to be aware of your red meat consumption if you have been diagnosed with endometriosis. Excessive consumption has been linked to cases of endometriosis.

Stay Clear of Refined Sugars
Eating foods and beverages that contain refined sugars should not be included in your diet as they can negatively affect your ability to reproduce.
Refined sugars are known to speed up free radical formation in your body while it wreaks havoc on your immune system.

A body in this state does not have optimal fertility health.
You need to keep your blood sugar levels within the accepted normal range to maximize your ability to conceive.
Therefore, stay away from canned and bottled fruit juices, sodas and other fizzy drinks.​
Stay away from caffeine and alcohol too.

These drinks don’t fit into a natural fertility diet plan.

Dieting for Fertility

Obesity has many negative health consequences. Some are better known and documented than others. Recent studies have shown that yet another potential consequence of obesity is difficulty when it comes to conceiving a baby.

Fertility troubles are a growing problem in this country and around the world. One reason that is being hailed as a very viable culprit is obesity.

While most people look immediately to the female in the relationship for this particular problem the facts indicate that male obesity can also lead to a low sperm count, which can also hamper fertility efforts and progress.

Our bodies were designed for specific purposes. It is utterly amazing how well each part of the human body works to support the others. There are very few machines that can compete with the genius of the design of the human body.

After thousands of years to study the human body there are still many mysteries hidden within. The truth comes down to this however, we put things into our bodies, and abuse our bodies in ways that our bodies were simply not designed to take and yet we still manage to adapt and survive many of these things.

It’s amazing when you think about that the human body endures the many things it does without permanent and irrevocable damage. The good news for those attempting to conceive is that the human body also has the remarkable ability to heal itself.

This means that those who find their efforts to conceive have been hampered by obesity have also seen positive changes by losing as little as five to ten percent of your ability to conceive.

If both partners are overweight then it might be a good idea to work together to shed those unwanted pounds and adopt a healthier, more active lifestyle. Being active when trying to conceive and throughout the pregnancy is a good idea for the female in the relationship at any rate as this can help in the process of labor and delivery.

If you are trying to conceive without success and have been doing so for more than a year it is probably in your best interest to seek the services of a fertility specialist in order to rule out other possible considerations.

Though it is rarely a bad idea to adopt a healthier lifestyle you should also consult your doctor before beginning a strict diet or weight loss regimen in order to make sure there aren’t other factors that may be causing your weight issues. This is particularly true if you have gained a good deal of weight in a rather short amount of time.

In addition to conception difficulty obesity can also lead to a greater risk of miscarriage once conception has occurred. Obesity also leads to a greater risk of conditions such as gestational diabetes during the pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, and in some cases still birth and birth defects.

It is no small hindrance to a healthy pregnancy and should be carefully considered before attempting to conceive.

Another consideration when it comes to obesity and fertility is that being overweight can also hamper the affects of fertility treatments.

This means that the process is typically lengthier and will cost significantly more over time than if obesity were not a factor. 

When coupled with the risks to the baby this is something that should not be taken lightly when making plans for fertility treatments.

If your BMI is greater than 30 there are many fertility clinics that simply will not offer their services. Some limit it to greater than 35 and others 40. If you feel that fertility treatments are the only course of action available to you and your BMI is greater than 30, the first suggestion you are likely to hear is the suggestion that you make serious weight loss efforts and lifestyle changes before proceeding.

You may find that once you begin to shed the pounds, fertility intervention is no longer necessary.

Hi, I'm Jordan Rubin and welcome to Ancient Medicine Today brought to you by draxe.com. And I am here with, I was going to say old friend, but I'm going to say a young friend, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy.

She is a medical doctor, board certified in family practice and runs a center for new medicine in Orange County, California.

And we're excited Dr. Connealy, to have you here because we're going to talk about something we've never discussed but is so critical today and throughout history. We're going to talk about "Preparing Your Body for Pregnancy."

I've often said that people should take classes before they have children, not just physically but I think spiritually and mentally as well.

But tell us why we need to prepare our, well, "we" meaning the female population needs to prepare their body for pregnancy.

I know it sounds like it's obvious but, in your mind, why is it so important and what would this change in the health of our children?

Dr. Connealy: Well, if you look at the statistics of children today, first, autism.

Autism used to be in the '70s, one in 2,500.

Now, in boys it's one in 34.

If you look at asthma, you look at diabetes, you look at mood disorders, we look at obesity, we look at the other disabilities that we just kind of clump in as learning disabilities or visual disabilities, auditory disabilities.

But children today are plagued with illnesses that shouldn't happen.

I used to tell patients, "You have a warranty into your 40." Now I can't say that because our children are being plagued with so many illnesses that if we, as women and men together, prepared for this wonderful miracle, the outcome would be significantly different.

And they've actually done studies on this now.

So they're showing that the health of the mother is transmitted to the baby.

So I want you to listen in because this is valuable information.

Jordan: Absolutely.

And I know throughout history, native cultures had a special diet for the husband and wife to be, the parents for a pre-conception type program, and they would eat certain foods after they were married that were rich in nutrients, help the body detoxify.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

So if you are someone of childbearing age or if you are trying to get pregnant or even if you are pregnant, it's important to prepare your body for pregnancy.

And here's the good news, if they follow these tips, females are going to be healthy in general.

So we're going to get started right now.

Number one, Dr. Connealy, what is a pre-pregnancy detox?

What does this look like?

And give us some specifics.

Dr. Connealy: Well, people look at detox and they're just like all overwhelmed, "I'm not going to feel good, this is going to be awful."

But actually just simple little measures.

First of all, we know that the toxins in the mother transmit to the baby.

They've done studies on this and proven this in the umbilical cord analysis.

So the first and foremost thing you can do is detox your mind.

Get your mind ready and be so happy, and joyous for this brand-new miracle that's going to happen.

Number two, you need to eat foods that nourish, strengthen, and heal your body.

Buying everything organic and fresh.

Do not buy things in a box that are packaged, there's so many chemicals on the label that you can't read them. So that's a simple little thing besides doing other things that you can do.

Like for example, you can do a liver cleanse, you can do infrared sauna, you can do skin brushing, can do a kidney cleanse, you can do bath detoxes.

There're so many little things that you can do and guess what, not only are you going to prepare for this incredible miracle that's going to happen but you are going to feel amazing if you detox.

Jordan: Awesome.

And what we want to say is, we're going to talk about nourishing the body in just a moment, but a pre-pregnancy detox could include, as you see on the screen, consuming juices.

Dr. Connealy mentioned a liver cleanse, wake up in the morning and simply squeeze half a lemon into your purified water, that will begin to cleanse the kidneys, and the bowel, and the lymphatic system.

And taking a detox bath, maybe Epsom salts and some essential oil of lavender.

Anyone can do that but especially someone who is looking to detoxify their body pre-pregnancy.

And you mentioned all the diseases that are on the rise in children. Your child's life and health can depend on what you do.

Number two, nourishing your body.

So,

Dr. Connealy, tell me three foods that the women watching can consume that will help nourish their body for pregnancy.

Dr. Connealy: Well, fats.

People think, "Oh, fat makes you fat." No. Actually, fat makes you thin.

And so the best fats, coconut oil, olive oil, avocados.

These are amazing fats and why do you need them?

Look, this is one cell and you have trillions of them.

And the wall of every cell in your body is made of fat so that's why you must eat the fats.

The second thing is you need to eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

For example, green, green, green, broccoli, brussel sprouts, zucchini, he mentioned juicing before.

I drink ten ounces of juice every single morning.

Because a lot of people are really not good at eating vegetables, but if you just do six, eight different vegetables in a juicer or a blender, you're going to get them down and they taste amazing.

And immediately, within 15, 20 minutes, you feel these active nutrients working in your body.

The other thing that people don't really realize how magical, is spices. Just adding spices, all different things, whether you do curcumin, you do rosemary, you do sage, all of these different spices have unbelievable .

. . you can put like five different spices in different things that you're making.

And so the food you eat.

everybody wants energy today, right?

How are you going to have energy if you don't eat energy?

Jordan: That makes sense.

So we're talking about good fats.

We talked about coconut, we talked about avocado, we talked about omega-3 fats and fatty fish.

Number two, we talked about juicing particularly getting greens in your diet, and number three, spices.

We mentioned the importance of multicolored spices and how powerful they are for protection of the body both in the anti-oxidant potential and their ability to fight germs and fight aging.

All right.

Address your personal environment.

So how does a personal environment affect a mother or mother-to-be and ultimately the child?

Dr. Connealy: Well, everything, wherever you work or wherever that you live affects you, okay?

First of all, indoor air pollution is worse than outdoor air pollution.

So we've got to do things that purify air.

You can do that with plants, you can do that with aroma therapy, and you can do that with a purifier.

Now, also people don't think.

Almost everything that we come in contact has toxicity.

You sit on your sofa, you work in your kitchen, your water is toxic unless you buy a water purifier which everyone should absolutely do.

Your foods, all the foods of lots of today's world have toxicity.

All the chemicals that women love to lather all over their body.

Your skin is your largest organ in your body and it's absorbing all of those things.

Think about when you're taking a shower, the showerhead.

Just think, there's all the chemicals in the water today, pharmacology in the water, not to mention the chlorine and fluorine.

So from the moment you wake up in the morning, being mindful of everything. Now, I'm not saying you must change everything overnight. Little by little you can make changes.

Because a lot of people are so overwhelmed, "Oh my gosh, I've got to change everything overnight.

" No, little by little, just like how you store your food left over. You should be using all glass.

What do you cook out of?

Do cook out of aluminum pans which we know is toxic?

Well, you've got to cook out of steal or out of, there's a company called Le Creuset that is healthy for you.

So just start paying attention and educating yourself.

Education is power to change your life.

You understand the why, where, when, and how of what you're doing.

But this is a huge, huge thing and it's amazing, small changes make huge differences.

Jordan: Well, I'm Jordan Rubin here for Ancient Medicine

Today brought to you by draxe.com. And we're here with Dr.

Leigh Erin Connealy, medical doctor, board certified in family practice.

She runs a center for new medicine in Orange County, California, and you're getting a free consult.

So if you're a woman out there who wants to prepare your body for pregnancy, you need to tune in or send this to those you know and love. I'm going to talk briefly, or I'm going to let you talk about mental preparation but then I have a question for you that's not on our slides today that I think some people might be thinking about.

Because we're talking all about preparing for pregnancy on behalf of our child.

We want healthier children, we want them to not struggle with diseases of the body, mind or otherwise. So this is really, really important.

You talked about detoxifying, nourishing the body.

We talked about addressing the personal environment which is really taking stock of everything you have around you and on you.

Number four is mental preparation.

What role does mental preparation play in preparing your body for pregnancy?

Dr.Connealy: Well, today we know that how we think affects every single cell in our body.

So whatever the story you're telling yourself every single second of every day, it's directing the cells in the DNA. It's actually affecting the energy of the water of the cells that bathe in your body.

So it's critical whatever illness, whether you're preparing for pregnancy or you have something else, that how you think is how your body becomes, and you get what you expect.

So this is a miracle that's going to happen. Literally, if you've never had children, you will understand that the first 24 hours after that baby comes is the most amazing experience that you could possibly ever imagine and then the days to come.

I have lots of children so I know that experience and if you talk to anyone who's had children, it is outrageously life changing.

So you want to say, "You know what, I am so excited, I am so peaceful, I am so happy about this miracle that's going to happen."

Because if you are frustrated, if you are stressed, if you are having marital discord, you're having work problems, family problems, all of this information, its information gets transmitted to the cells.

And happy thoughts make happy chemicals.

Jordan: That's awesome, and we know that when a woman is pregnant, especially for the first time, there can be some fear and anxiety especially regarding a labor and delivery.

But we want to speak positive.

I really do believe that you speak what you want, not what you don't want.

I'm going to ask you a quick question.

We're talking about today preparing your body for pregnancy and there are women out there, I guarantee you, that are saying, "I'd love to prepare my body for pregnancy but I haven't been able to get pregnant."

So I just want to confirm that what we're sharing is also critical to fertility.

I think we're seeing an epidemic, if not a pandemic of infertility today.

I remember 10 or 15 years ago, somebody said that if we didn't have the help of medical procedures, we would not necessarily be going extinct but we would almost be an endangered species regarding how frequent infertility strikes us.

So would these principles we're sharing, or these keys, be effective for someone trying to get pregnant who's had challenges?

Dr. Connealy: Well, that's a great point because they've just come out that fertility rates have dropped about 50%.

And it's caused because we have something called endocrine disruptors.

Endocrine means hormone, hormone disruptors.

For example, plastics.

Plastics contained phthalates.

Phthalates are endocrine disrupters.

There are lots of endocrine disruptors in the environment.

There's hundreds of thousands of chemicals because they aren't allowed . . .

they don't necessarily test every single chemical and not to mention this synergistic potential of all of these chemicals.

So, they're wreaking havoc in our daily lives and in our bodies, not only in mothers, also in infertility, and all of the illnesses that we're plagued with today.

Jordan: Wow.

So what we're saying is that not only will these keys help you prepare your body for pregnancy on benefit of the child, on behalf of the child, but if you're someone who is struggling with infertility, I've seen a lot of great results by balancing hormones and removing what Dr.

Connealy called endocrine disruptors.

So folks listen, if you're somebody out there who wants to prepare your womb or if you're someone who just wants to be healthy enough to consider having a baby, don't wait till you're trying.

Don't wait till you're pregnant.

Make sure that you prepare your body not only for the baby's sake but in order to have a healthy baby.

Connealy, why don't you, for the audience today, give a recap on four keys to prepare your body for pregnancy.

Dr. Connealy: All right.

So first of all, start cleansing, start purifying your body.

There is single no greater thing that anyone can do whether you're preparing for pregnancy or living every single day.

So, start with that.

Start thinking about all the foods that you are eating. How is it helping? How is it making a phenomenal cell?

Then you've got to eat the foods, you've got to eat a rainbow of food.

You got to have great fats, great vegetables, good proteins.

And then you've got to look at everything in your environment from the time you wake up, what are your thoughts?

Number two, how are you taking a shower, the water, you’re eating, how are you cooking, the foods that you're eating, what are you storing your food in?

What is the air that you're breathing in?

And when you go to work, is the furniture outgassing chemicals?

But you can do things. I tell hairdressers, "Listen, invest in a purifier in your salon if you're going to be a hairdresser."

Then you've got to prepare your mind.

We all need to prepare our mind for whatever the outcome we're looking for.

So you can do it, I know you can.

Jordan: That's awesome.

So not only are we helping women of childbearing age prepare their body for a healthy pregnancy but also preparing your body for a healthy life.

I bet Dr. Connealy that somebody who does a detoxification program nourishes their body, addresses their personal environment, and mentally prepares has less chance of postpartum depression, and takes off some of the baby weight.

Because these are things that women are concerned about. Not only delivering a healthy baby but how am I going to look afterwards?

When am I going to get back in shape?

And so I think all of this can make a difference.

And I want to mention Dr. Connealy has a brand new book called "The Cancer Revolution" a groundbreaking program to prevent and reverse cancer.

This book is not just for someone who's been given that dreaded diagnosis but it's for anyone who wants to live a long and healthy life.

So Dr. Connealy, quickly, what will people learn from "The Cancer Revolution" and why is it different than other cancer books?

Because there are several out there and this is, I believe, something you've been working on for a long time, a bit of your life's work.

So tell the audience why someone can benefit from the cancer revolution for themselves and for someone they love. Dr. Connealy: Well, that's a great question because it is titled "The Cancer Revolution." But there are pillars of health that we all need to follow and I didn't make the rules.

The rules are part of Mother Nature.

But all the things that I talk about in the book, whether it's the mind, whether it's detox, whether it's exercise, whether it's sleep, water, all of this valuable information and how to do it. I talk about a whole category on juicing, whole category on eating and recipes.

So whether you have cancer or not, that is beside the point.

This is a book on how you get healthy, not if you get cancer, the cure for cancer is prevention.

I talk about prevention in the book.

And then if you get diagnosed with cancer, you say, "Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?

" But people don't realize from one cancer cell to a tumor takes ten years.

That means we have ten years of health opportunity to prevent cancer.

But once you get it, you have to say, "Why did I get this diagnosis to begin with?"

And so you're going to unravel lots of different things.

Don't think that just surgery, chemo, and radiation is going to eradicate and eliminate the cancer.

Because you never addressed how you got there to begin with.

Ten years of stuff, you're going to be unraveling for a little bit of time and the book tells you how to restore health, harmony, and balance to your body.

Jordan: Excellent.

For more information visit www.connealymd.com. I'm Jordan Rubin for Ancient Medicine Today with Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy.

She operates the Center for New Medicine in Orange County, California. And we're going to do some upcoming programs throughout the next few weeks with Dr. Connealy.

So stay tuned and as always, tune in to our next program, subscribe to this channel.

And if you know someone who wants to be pregnant, wants to prepare their body for a healthy pregnancy, healthy baby, and a healthy life,

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Thank you so much.

God bless you.

See you next time.
Fertility diets - are they fact or fiction?

In today's episode, we will discuss whether fruits, vegetables, fast food, seafood, trans fats or carbs can help or hurt your fertility.

Stay tuned to the end for my specific diet recommendations

First, don't get confused.

There are many different types of diets for a variety of medical problems.

A diet to lower cholesterol, for example, won't necessarily help with your fertility.

Second, if you are overweight, any type of diet that will allow you to lose weight will improve your fertility.

Let's get into some specifics.

Fruits and vegetables.

A new study found that women who eat fast food and little or no fruit take longer to become pregnant.

For women who had the lowest intake of fruit, the risk of infertility increased from 8% to 12% and those who ate fast food four or more times a week, the risk of infertility doubled from 8 to 16%.

Fast foods include burgers, pizza, fried chicken and chips that were bought from takeaway or fast-food outlets.

These findings were true regardless of female weight.

The LIFE (or Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility on the Environment) Study of 501 couples planning pregnancy shows that couples consuming two or more servings of seafood every week enjoyed more sex and got pregnant faster than those eating seafood less often.

After one year, 92% of couples with a seafood rich diet had conceived, compared with 79% of couples with diets that contain less fish and shellfish.

Another study found that women on a diet high in trans fats were 48% more likely to develop endometriosis than those with the lowest consumption.

However, women eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish, seem to protect against the disease as these women had a 22% reduced risk of developing endometriosis.

A survey of women with and without ovulation problems, found that women with ovulation problems were more likely to eat low-fat dairy products, refined carbs, get their protein from animal products and consume trans fats So if you have an ovulation problem, avoid these things

A typical Mediterranean diet contains a high amount of vegetables, fruits, olive oil, beans and cereal grains, moderate amounts of fish, dairy products and wine and only a small amount of red meat and poultry.

A study from Greece of nearly 250 women found that those women who adhered most closely to this diet had 66% higher pregnancy rates during IVF.

Men who follow the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (or AHEI) a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains and low-fat dairy products and a relatively low intake of refined grains saturated fatty acids and added sugars showed significantly better results for sperm concentration, total sperm count and percentage of normal sperm morphology compared with men who didn't follow such a diet.

So, to put all this together my recommendations for a fertility diet:

It seems reasonable to eat some fruits and vegetables every day, seafood at least twice a week. Stay away from fast foods and foods that are high in trans fats.

If you have an ovulation problem, try to switch from low-fat dairy to high-fat dairy.

Get more of your protein from plant sources than from animal sources

Swap out your current vegetable oil for Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

The Mediterranean Diet takes most of these recommendations into account already.

If you follow that diet closely you should maximize your fertility.

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