Eat organically grown food for the health of your baby! Here is an article about the presence of hazardous chemicals, including pesticides, present in umbilical cord blood. The low level of exposure to toxins in utero is linked to birth defects, developmental disorders and chronic diseases. Join a CSA, shop the farmer’s market, and vote with your dollar by buying organic food.
Category Archives: Fertility
Sleep For Fertility
Your body depends on you to take care of it well, and one of the easiest ways you can meet its needs is by going to bed early. Sleep contributes to your well being in many ways- weight control, healthy metabolism, proper hormone function, mental and emotional stability, memory and learning and guess what else – fertility! During sleep your body repairs the damage that occurred during the day by releasing the hormone melatonin. Based on the circadian rhythm it does this at about 10:30 every night. If you aren’t asleep when “the janitor” comes out to mop up all of the junk, it can’t do its job! Have you ever wondered why you can go to bed at 10, wake up at 6 and feel much more rested than if you go to bed at midnight and wake up at 8? This is why. In fact, every hour you sleep before midnight is equivalent to 2 hours after midnight. Lack of melatonin release puts the body in a stressed state and the reproductive hormones are the first to get out of whack when you’re body is stressed. Why would your body want to procreate in an stressful environment? Continue reading Sleep For Fertility
Feel Your Best
One of my favorite Magazines, Body + Soul, has asked 17 trusted names in integrative health to give their number one healthy living tip. What a great compilation! Click here to Feel Your Best – especially if you’re wanting to get your body ready to conceive or are post-partum and trying to feel like “you” again. Check them out!
O.N.E. derful Coconut Water
Coconut water is a miracle beverage. Are you seeing it on the grocery store shelves now and wondering why you should buy it? Many, many reasons and during all phases of life. Continue reading O.N.E. derful Coconut Water
What is Trans Fat?
It’s so important to eat good fat while you’re trying to conceive, pregnant, and breastfeeding. It’s even more important to avoid trans fat, because it can actually displace healthy fats and can have serious consequences. If you’ve heard you need to avoid trans fat, but don’t know where it lurks or what it’s in, read the ingredients on packaged food. If it says hydrogenated oil, it contains trans fat- even if the nutrition info says 0 grams trans fat per serving. This is a loophole the FDA created which allows a food processor to say zero trans fat per serving if there is less than half a gram of trans fat in that serving. Continue reading What is Trans Fat?