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What to do about Postpartum Hair Loss

Let’s talk about the clumps of hair you’ve been finding in the shower, on your pillow, and maybe even tangled in tiny baby fingers. Let’s unpack why it’s happening, what tests are worth doing, and the key nutrients that support your hair, hormones, and healing, without compromising breastfeeding.

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Is Sperm Health the Missing Link in Recurrent Miscarriage?

If you are trying to grow your family, and have experienced miscarriage, even after conceiving quickly, you’re not alone. Many women in this situation are told the problem must lie with their age or egg quality. But what I see in my clinic time and time again is that sperm health plays an equally important role in whether a pregnancy progresses.

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Optimising Egg Quality Through Nutrition

When it comes to fertility, egg quality is just as important as egg quantity. While age is a major factor, research shows that diet and lifestyle can significantly influence the health of your eggs. If you’re trying to conceive naturally or preparing for IVF, focusing on egg quality can improve your chances of a healthy pregnancy.

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Cervical Mucus and Fertility: What Your Body Is Telling You

When it comes to understanding your fertility, cervical mucus is one of the most powerful, accessible, and under-utilised signs your body gives you. Often dismissed as “just discharge,” this fluid plays a vital role in conception and reproductive health and learning how to read it can completely change how you relate to your cycle.

Whether you're trying to conceive (TTC) or simply want to understand your body better, this guide will help you decode the different types of cervical mucus and how they reflect your hormonal and fertility status.

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Trying to Conceive? It Might Not Just Be Hormonal, It Could Be a Disconnect from Your Feminine Energy

What if your fertility journey isn’t just about your hormones but about how deeply nourished, rested, and connected to your feminine energy you truly are?

This article explores how modern life pulls us away from our cyclical wisdom and how stress, nutrient depletion, and disconnection from our bodies may be quietly impacting fertility. Backed by science and guided by intuition we explore a more integrated, feminine path to conception.

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Trying to conceive again? Why Postpartum Depletion Might Be Holding You Back

You had no trouble conceiving the first time, but now you’re trying again and nothing’s happening. You’re not alone. Secondary infertility affects 1 in 8 couples, and one often overlooked factor may be standing in your way: postpartum depletion. In this article, we explore how nutrient loss, birth trauma, emotional exhaustion, and hormonal imbalances can quietly linger after birth and how nutrition and eating psychology can gently support your body back to balance, energy, and fertility.

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The Power of Preconception Care: How Nutrition Impacts Generations to Come

When we think of preparing for pregnancy, most of us focus on the here and now: supporting fertility, balancing hormones, and ensuring a healthy baby. But what if I told you the way you eat before conception doesn’t just affect your baby? It could impact your grandchildren too.

This is the power of preconception care. What you eat today can shape generations to come.

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Reclaiming Our Place in the Ecosystem: Why Ancestral Living Supports Fertility and Vitality

There’s something I’ve come to believe deeply, not just from my studies, but from observing nature, the human body, and how modern life disconnects us from both: human beings are not above the natural world, we’re a part of it. And when we try to remove ourselves from the ecosystem, whether by altering our diets unnaturally or ignoring biological rhythms, our health and fertility suffer.

In this post, we’ll explore how the nervous system, vagus nerve, and relaxation response are central to fertility — and what you can do to support your body in moving from survival mode into a fertile, receptive state.

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Nourishing the Nervous System: How to Create Safety in the Body for Conception

When you’re trying to conceive, it’s easy to focus on what you eat — but rarely do we consider how your body is feeling when you eat, rest, or move through your day. If your nervous system is in a constant state of stress, your body may interpret it as an unsafe time for reproduction — no matter how perfect your diet or supplement regime might be.

The truth is: Fertility thrives in a body that feels safe.

In this post, we’ll explore how the nervous system, vagus nerve, and relaxation response are central to fertility — and what you can do to support your body in moving from survival mode into a fertile, receptive state.

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The Power of the Feminine: Reclaiming Receptivity to Support Fertility - Through Mind, Body & Nutrition

In today’s fast-paced world, many women on the fertility journey find themselves constantly striving — tracking, planning, eating perfectly, and doing everything “right.” But despite all this effort, they often feel disconnected, exhausted, and defeated.

Why? Because fertility isn’t something you achieve through force — it’s something you’re meant to receive.

This blog explores how stepping into your feminine energy — including how you relate to food and nourishment — can deeply support your reproductive hormones and help you feel more at ease in your body.

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The Power of Pleasure and Enjoyment in Fertility Nutrition

When navigating fertility struggles, food can quickly become a source of stress and control rather than joy. You might find yourself obsessing over every bite, wondering if it’s helping or harming your fertility. But what if the key to better nourishment — and improved fertility — lies in bringing pleasure and enjoyment back into your relationship with food?

The psychology of eating reminds us that pleasure isn’t just a luxury — it’s a physiological need that can directly impact digestion, metabolism, hormone regulation, and fertility.

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How Nutrition Impacts Your Fertility: Essential Nutrients for Reproductive Health

When trying to conceive, most people focus on the obvious factors like ovulation tracking, timing, and testing. But what often goes unnoticed is the crucial role nutrition plays in fertility. What you eat can have a profound impact on your ability to conceive, from regulating your hormones to nourishing your body’s reproductive system. In fact, the food you eat not only influences your fertility but can also improve the quality of your eggs, sperm, and overall reproductive health.

In this post, we’ll dive into how nutrition influences fertility and explore some of the most important nutrients for reproductive health. We’ll also take a look at a real-life case study to see how simple dietary changes can support your fertility journey.

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How Stress Impacts Your Fertility and What You Can Do About It

If you're on a fertility journey, chances are you’ve heard about the importance of reducing stress. While it may seem like a catchphrase, the truth is that stress can have a real and significant impact on your fertility. Whether you’re dealing with work pressure, relationship challenges, or the emotional ups and downs of trying to conceive, stress can disrupt your hormonal balance, impair ovulation, and interfere with the very processes that support fertility.

But here’s the good news: stress is not a permanent roadblock. By understanding how stress affects fertility and learning to implement mind-body strategies to reduce its impact, you can begin to reclaim control and support your fertility health in a sustainable way.

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Food is Not Just Fuel: Healing Your Relationship with Food on the Fertility Journey

When you’re trying to conceive, food can take on a different meaning. It often becomes a tool — a means to an end, where every bite is scrutinised, and every food choice feels loaded with potential impact. “Will this food help my fertility? Will this food hurt my chances?” In this blog, we’ll explore how you can begin to heal your relationship with food while optimising your fertility journey.

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How Mind-Body Nutrition Supports Your Fertility Hormones

When navigating fertility challenges, it's easy to zero in on what to eat — the best supplements, fertility-friendly foods, superfoods for egg health. But an often-overlooked piece of the puzzle is how we eat, and the physiological and emotional state we’re in while eating. This is where the science of Mind-Body Nutrition becomes incredibly powerful.

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