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Feed Your Fertility
Do you want to make a healthy baby and have a healthy pregnancy? Are you interested in a holistic approach to fertility? Do you need to optimize your fertility due to your age or health conditions? Are you trying to conceive and experiencing challenges? Very few women and men expect to have trouble when it comes to having a family, and coming up against obstacles can bring about epic levels of stress. Deciding what steps to take can be absolutely baffling. The good news is that Feed Your Fertility is here to help you. Inside, fertility professionals and authors Emily Bartlett and Laura Erlich will guide you on a path to making the nutritional and lifestyle changes you need to help support healthy fertility and pregnancy. Inside you'll -How your lifestyle may be inhibiting your ability to conceive - and what to do about it -Why popular fertility diets may be leading you down the wrong road -What foods to eat to optimize and nourish your fertility, and how to adopt a real foods diet -How to determine your personal health imbalances that may be interfering with your fertility -How to use Chinese medicine to bring your body into balance and improve your odds of conception -How to streamline your supplements and take only what you really need -Your natural and medical treatment options for common fertility issues -How to navigate the medical fertility world and when to seek help Get your pregnancy on track the natural, time-tested way and enjoy your journey to motherhood with Feed Your Fertility. "It takes a village to raise a baby, to start a family... I say it takes a village to simply start taking charge of your own body in our culture today. Food and environment can be the break, or the breakthrough. Laura Erlich and Emily Bartlett have detailed and provided the map and menu for healing and supporting a body so it is able to welcome new life and energy." - Selma Blair, actress and mother "Down to earth and practical, Feed your Fertility delivers accessible fertility wisdom that can easily be applied to your daily life. Those who are navigating through the sometimes difficult and confusing labyrinth toward better fertility probably don't need better reproductive clinics; they need simple, sensible guidance. Feed Your Fertility provides easy to follow solutions for taking charge of your reproductive health." - Randine Lewis, L.Ac., Ph.D., author of The Infertility Cure and The Way of the Fertile Soul
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224 pages, Paperback
First published January 20, 2015
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October 25, 2024
Feed Your Fertility is a comprehensive resource that outlines ways to optimize fertility with both an Eastern and Western perspective. This is a must read for those looking to cultivate a healthy lifestyle, body, and pregnancy.
June 5, 2017
I'll be honest, once or twice a year I get the itch to look for a new diet that will fix all my health problems. I don't really think there's a diet to fix everything anymore, but it gives me something to try.
As a loose follower of the Weston Price diet, and researcher of my health problems, 1/2 to 2/3s of the information in this book was old news to me. However, the Chinese medicine parts of the book were intriguing. Personally, I think that often the Chinese medicine theories have solutions that work, even if their explanations of what's going on are less than accurate. (They even mention in the book that the theories should be taken as metaphorical.) I don't know if I actually have Yin and Yang energies that fluctuate throughout the day and month, but as it more or less translates to eating warming foods early in the day and cooling foods later in the day, there is a certain logic to the system.
I don't know if this system of eating works at all, but it gives me something to try that generally points me in the direction of eating more healthy food anyway, so at this point I don't see a down side to giving it a try.
As a loose follower of the Weston Price diet, and researcher of my health problems, 1/2 to 2/3s of the information in this book was old news to me. However, the Chinese medicine parts of the book were intriguing. Personally, I think that often the Chinese medicine theories have solutions that work, even if their explanations of what's going on are less than accurate. (They even mention in the book that the theories should be taken as metaphorical.) I don't know if I actually have Yin and Yang energies that fluctuate throughout the day and month, but as it more or less translates to eating warming foods early in the day and cooling foods later in the day, there is a certain logic to the system.
I don't know if this system of eating works at all, but it gives me something to try that generally points me in the direction of eating more healthy food anyway, so at this point I don't see a down side to giving it a try.
August 5, 2015
This was an interesting take on fertility using both modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. As a health teacher and someone who is quite educated on the body and the reproductive system, I was pleased to find correct information about fertility and trying to conceive. Often, fertility advice is simply too basic or lacks little knowledge of how many women's bodies actually work; this book definitely had the information right. Also, it had a lot of good explanations regarding the causes of infertility and the treatments from the perspectives of both Western and Eastern medicine. I would recommend this book for those wanting to look at fertility from a different angle.
August 28, 2020
It's a good book to guide you with fertility. However, in my personal experience it gave me some anxiety. It's just my personality because I think that I have to follow everything in here.
October 9, 2020
It was informative and I was hoping for more from this book. One point I’d like to make is that all my adult years, I’ve been avoiding soy products due to it being a huge GMO product. I used to live in Decatur Illinois and there were so many soy bean fields there! Anyway, the Accupuncturist I am now seeing is telling me that my uterine lining needs to be prepared by building it up more. And she recommended that I drink natural soy milk that I make myself. Well, I can’t see myself buying a soy milk machine or going to buy soy beans, it’s a lot easier to jog soy milk from Aldi’s here in Brisbane. It opens my eyes to the fact that because you read something in books, maybe it doesn’t always apply in your circumstance.
Some good recipes in the back.
Some good recipes in the back.
October 3, 2024
A really solid introduction to TCM and fertility, with a few chapters specifically on Western fertility treatment. Very easy to read, no tedious explanation of TCM theory. Mainly emphasizes 'food as medicine', goes over lists of vitamins and supplements, describes various conditions that may affect fertility, and explains different treatment options. My favourite part was the myth debunking.
September 7, 2019
One of my favorite fertility books. Good info, good recipes.
February 9, 2022
So educational and enlightening. I’m so happy to have read this book a year out from TTC because I now know what I need to do over the next year to prepare my body for pregnancy and I’m so excited.
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