This video discusses various factors affecting infertility, which impacts one in five women in the US. The speaker, Deb Ford, shares her personal experience reversing PCOS, a leading cause of infertility. She covers how endocrine disruptors (toxins), conditions like fibroids and endometriosis, PCOS, stress, and poor nutrition interfere with fertility, offering tips and dietary advice to address each issue. Key recommendations include a Whole Foods diet, specific supplements, and stress management techniques.
Key Takeaways
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Infertility affects about 20% of women in the US, with factors like toxins, fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS, stress, and poor nutrition playing a role.
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Endocrine disruptors, found in plastics (BPA, BPS), canned goods, and even coffee cups, are linked to conditions like fibroids and endometriosis and should be avoided.
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Supplements like resveratrol, curcumin, Vitex (chaste tree), and ashwagandha can help with inflammation, hormone balance, and stress management related to endometriosis and fibroids.
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PCOS can be reversed through significant diet changes, emphasizing a lower-carb, Mediterranean-style diet, along with exercise and stress management.
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Specific supplements for PCOS include inositol, Vitex, flaxseed, and fennel.
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High stress levels, measurable by the Alpha-amylase enzyme in saliva, are linked to a longer time to conceive and an increased risk of never getting pregnant.
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Moderate exercise (1-5 hours of walking per week) can boost fertility, but too much vigorous exercise can be counterproductive.
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Maintaining a healthy weight and following a Mediterranean-style diet rich in B12, folic acid, and Omega-3s, while avoiding processed foods and sugar, can significantly enhance fertility for both men and women.
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Antioxidants are particularly beneficial for male fertility, according to research.
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Key actions to increase fertility include eating lots of veggies, healthy fats, ample protein, moderate exercise, stress-reducing activities, taking a good multivitamin and omega-3, and avoiding toxins, sugar, potatoes, and processed foods.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what's new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better this is going to be more
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on the younger side today I'm going to
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cover the basics of increasing
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fertility because according to the CDC
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in the US rate of infertility is about
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20% one in five women are struggling
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with this and that's kind of a subject
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near and dear to my heart because I came
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within a couple weeks of having to have
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a hysterctomy and I was able to Res
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reverse it all within a month to six
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weeks I know if you do these things you
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will be healthier too so there are many
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things that are interfering with
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fertility these days we've got the ever
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increasing toxins that are actually
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called andrien disruptors that means
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they are disrupting all of your hormones
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your thyroid your insulin your sex
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hormones as well so we've got to deal
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with that um you've got fibroids and
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endometriosis PCOS that's what I had and
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now it's the leading cause of
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infertility in women stress is another
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thing that's interfering with fertility
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and crazy as it may seem in this
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overabundance of food today poor
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nutrition so I'm going to dig into each
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one and give you the tips how to
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overcome each one of these and of course
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check with your medical provider before
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you make all these changes so from the
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National Library of Medicine comes a
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huge review of research that considers
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all the human evidence on these endrin
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disruptors we call them EDC
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and the association with fibroids and
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endometriosis is very clear you've got
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the dioxins you've got the bpas in
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plastic you've got the Tates and other
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endocine disruptors like DDT and the
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evidence is so clear they are causing
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the biggest environmental connection for
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these two conditions of fibroids and
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endometriosis
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since the majority of enderin disruptors
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occur from the diet super important to
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only have organic lean meats because
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they concentrate in the fat so you have
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to have lean meat and then a lifestyle
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to minimize the exposure so reducing the
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intake is going to
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be by way of not using canned goods that
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have the BPA liner uh most Soup cans
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most pop cans are lined with BPA so
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using BPA BPS BP anything free products
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are really important and avoiding
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long-term storage and never ever ever
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heat in plastic containers even if they
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say BPA free microwave safe do not put
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them in your microwave and any of those
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vegetables that in Steamers do not and
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that's going to help you reduce your
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incidental EDC exposure and also it is
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highly recommended that as soon as you
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bring Foods home you take them out of
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plastic quickly because the plastic does
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actually migrate into the food another
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thing even your paper cups you think
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they're paper cups that the coffee comes
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in those are lined with plastic as well
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that's why they don't leak
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so what supplements should you take
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could you take maybe possibly consider
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taking uh if you have endomet
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endometriosis or
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fibroids first of all we look at herbs
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that are
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anti-inflammatory and resveratol is a
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wonderful one because it also has
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natural very dilute phytoestrogens so
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they're anti-inflammatory and help
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balance the hormon as well and they are
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also
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anti-proliferative so that's a good one
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and then of course you know my favorite
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one shows up every week it seems like
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circumin my favorite is the BCM 95 from
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Terry naturally but it is
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anti-inflammatory studies show it helps
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to regulate hormones slows the growth of
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endometrial tissue and soes
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inflammation one study even found that
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curcumin reduced the production of
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estradiol while another one suggests it
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may suppress tissue migration so it
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keeps it where it
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belongs another
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review found that it was
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anti-inflammatory we know that and
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antioxidant properties would relieve
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symptoms a big one that comes up again
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and again for women's hormone balancing
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is Vitex also called Chase tree it's
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good for just about every
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hormonal for women
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premenopausal um so that is used um lot
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of lot of Studies have been done on that
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it even is good for PMS and I've seen it
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work for pmdd so I I like Vitex a lot it
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just tends to level out those hormones
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in a really nice Manner and then another
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one of my favorite herbs ashwagandha
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women with endometrio ois have
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significantly higher cortisol levels you
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know those stress
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hormones can just wreak havoc everywhere
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and women with endometriosis they test
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higher so a lot more research needs to
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be done of course but I do like
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ashwagandha and it is going to at least
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help with the Stress Management don't
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know if it's going to contribute to
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benefiting endometriosis but it sure
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will help with the stress and then
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because endrin disruptors play such a
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big role in this I highly recommend a
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Whole Foods diet along with the T my my
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10day heavenly cleanse
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that includes the Heavenly binder
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because those binders in there um it's
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got the chlorella it's got the the
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activated charcoal and uh that will
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actually bind to
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and get rid of the dioxins that are
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associated with the um endometriosis so
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we really have to get those toxins out
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of there I also would investigate a far
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infrared blanket those sonas really do
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help remove the toxins that have
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accumulated in the fat cells and it's
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also kind of the body thinks it's
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working out at the same time so it kind
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of does a double duty for cardiovascular
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fitness now on to
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PCOS oh boy clinical manifestations of
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this really are so wide ranging so
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you've got signs of testosterone
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overload you've got obesity you've got
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infertility you've got hair loss you've
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got acne insulin
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resistance could even culminate in type
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2 diabetes you've got lipid disorders
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lots of inflammation oxidative stress
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it's just a heck of a mess okay so you
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got to get on this and you can I did and
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you can reverse the whole thing it's not
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a cure it is a reversal which means
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you've always got to be careful and
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that's okay okay so getting this under
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control is really important
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because the risk is associated to
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everything that would be the same as a
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metabolic syndrome so blood pressure
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blood sugar certain cancers
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cardiovascular disease gallbladder
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disease non-alcoholic fatty liver
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disease dementia just about everything
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you can think of that goes along with
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the Western diet PCOS is a mess um with
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this condition women really need to get
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a handle on stress toxins and again but
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with most cases of PCOS we need a heavy
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dose of diet change because of the
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insulin resistance a lower carb diet is
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usually the best for most cases of PCOS
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keeping that blood sugar and Insulin
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very stable goes a long way also to a
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healthy weight and that is key so my
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Mediterranean version of my diet is the
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best lots of olive oil high fiber
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vegetables no sugar no sugar at all low
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to no starchy vegetables and no pasta
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okay that's like not really the
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Mediterranean diet uh limit your fruits
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limit your dairies good quality protein
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and ample fish ocean caught clean fish
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and I love flax oil with the lignans now
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you can look up a lot of research on
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those ligans for PCOS they're very good
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at balancing the
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hormones okay but you need to keep it
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refrigerated and you can't cook with it
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and then
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exercise this is a fundament Al key to
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reversing the insulin resistance and
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they even did a study where women with
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PCOS only exercised no diet change
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nothing else they only exercised and
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their fertility returned I personally
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want to do everything and I want to
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remove all the causes the diet the
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toxins the stress you know lack of
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exercise I think yeah it's just smart to
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do all that but exercise alone reversed
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it so I think PCOS can be dealt with
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easily with diet Stress Management
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exercise but sometimes few supplements
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are helpful so I love the special form
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of the B vitamin anasol the Cairo uh
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it's been well researched that makes for
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good healthy eggs Vitex again is used
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flax seed not the oil but the flax seed
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itself and then fennel fennel you can
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get that in a tea um you know you can
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really put that in your food all sorts
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of different ways to get fennel fen's
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coming on as a kind of a powerful thing
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so I might want to investigate that now
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we're going to go stress and
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infertility we know infertility causes
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stress and let's see does stress cause
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infertility well you know from what I
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talked about last week there are a lot
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of studies that have found links with
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women's day-to-day stress and lower
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hormone balance lower chances of
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pregnancy lower everything so we can
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even test that there is an enzyme in the
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mouth called Alpha amas that marks
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stress when that enzyme is high women
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took 29% longer almost not quite a third
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longer time to get pregnant compared to
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those who had normal or low levels
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higher levels of stress are really
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measured by that Sal salivary amalay and
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across the board longer time to get
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pregnant with also an increased risk of
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never getting pregnant so what else can
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you do all right there's a lot so if you
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want to just ramp up your chances
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research suggest these actions may help
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exercise for just the right amount
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physical
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activity can lower stress and boost
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fertility but too much EX exercise is
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stressful so you don't want to start
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taking up Marathon running you want just
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the right amount lowkey is the key work
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out moderately you know walking is
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probably the best one to five hours a
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week raise the odds of conception a lot
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but women who worked out more vigorously
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were less likely to get pregnant so you
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you don't want to go at it too hard
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another thing watch your weight one
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downfall of stress is you know you tend
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to eat more for emotional Comfort which
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is a bad thing because being overweight
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or obese makes it even harder to get or
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stay pregnant because of the hormone
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disruption it really pushes so they
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there's like some studies say that it's
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like three times as hard for women that
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carry around extra weight to conceive so
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healthy diet when you know stay away
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from the processed sugary stuff but that
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Mediterranean diet you know you've got
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the omega-3 fats you've got the good
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healthy protein all those veggies and
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even some soy made it more likely for
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women to conceive than if they had a
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processed diet and this goes for men and
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women alike there was a study that was
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published in 2018 in the Journal of
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reproductive
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immunology and they took 45 couples who
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were doing inv vitro and women who had
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higher levels of those stress hormones
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were less likely to get pregnant after
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one cycle of IVF another study also
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linked um fertility to the same Alpha
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amaly yeah okay and then and clear back
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in 2014 as well so then new study on
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fertility and diet so if you put all
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these together I mean it's kind of like
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you're going to have it all going but uh
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research from the Harvard School of
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Public Health and Harvard Medical School
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just published a huge review that
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examined the impact of diet on
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fertility so women that were becoming
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were wanting to get pregnant
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naturally these things really helped
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them with their fertility uh they had to
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have a diet or supplements that
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contained the B12 and the folic acid
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lots of Omega-3 and a healthy diet like
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the Mediterranean diet on the other hand
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antioxidants vitamin D dairy products
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soy caffeine and alcohol had little
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effect bad diet though had a negative
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effect so things with processed Meats
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potatoes sweets and even sweetened
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beverages like pop or sweetened iced tea
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had a negative effect for couples that
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were um being assisted in getting
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pregnant women were more likely to
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conceive when they had a diet high in
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soy or
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isoflavones and male fertility was aided
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by antioxidants so there you go all
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those things that we can do to kind of
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enhance fertility so eat lots of veggies
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get healthy fats ample protein walk or
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do moderate
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exercise really hit the stress reducing
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activities a little yoga a little
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meditation take a good multivitamin take
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a good omega-3 avoiding toxins sugar
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potatoes processed foods and you're
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going to increase your chance of
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fertility babies we all love babies so
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there's another addition of today's
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nutrition I hope it helps you or someone
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you love and that could mean another
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beautiful healthy baby in this world as
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always if you want to listen to this or
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other shows you can go to my website Deb
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for.com
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on YouTube or wherever you listen to
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podcast have a great day filled with
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lots of joy
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Infertility
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Jul 24, 2024
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Today I am going to cover the basics of increasing fertility. According to the CDC, In the US, the rate of infertility is about 20% or 1 in 5. This is a subject near and dear to my heart because I came within a couple of weeks of having a hysterectomy and was able to reverse it all within a few weeks.