Fertility-related books Awakening Fertility: The Essential Art of Preparing for Pregnancy Beautiful Babies: Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Baby’s First Foods Taking Charge of your Fertility How to Conceive Naturally and Have a Healthy Pregnancy after 30 Woman Code: Perfect your Cycle, Amplify your Fertility, Supercharge your Sex DriveContinue Reading
Diet Culture is toxic. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s dive deeper. To me, “diet culture” doesn’t encompass everyone who talks about food or gives food recommendations. After all, food is medicine and can be used therapeutically to prevent or reverse disease in many cases. BUT there areContinue Reading
Let’s talk HEARTBURN . SO many people suffer from acid reflux, and SO many of those people resort to OTC or prescription pills to manage it. It can be killer during pregnancy, especially once the babe starts taking up a lot of room. There has got to be a betterContinue Reading
The menstrual cycle has 4 phases: the follicular phase, the ovulatory phase, the luteal phase and the menstrual phase. Below, I will break down the average lengths, the hormone activity and the effects on your mood and lifestyle that each phase is likely to have. I even address which foodsContinue Reading
There is a wildly popular misconception that “if you eat fat, you’ll get fat.” This is an incredibly damaging myth based on reductive and blatantly false science, and it has actually contributed to the obesity epidemic. When the concept of fat making people fat became popular, there was a fundamentalContinue Reading
I absolutely love Shepherd’s Pie! My favorite iteration includes bacon and is topped with a mixture of puréed cauliflower and white potatoes. This one is topped with all white potatoes, and it’s delish but the potatoes dry out a little in the fridge, so leftovers aren’t as amazing as theContinue Reading
We have been using cloth diapers since my first daughter was 4 weeks old and we have only looked back a couple times. We have saved SO much money in diapers over the years and we couldn’t be happier with our choice to go with cloth. Now that we haveContinue Reading
We have all heard the harrowing accounts of hospital workers and their experiences with Covid19. I have read them even when it was easier to block out what’s been going on, because it is our country’s reality and we cannot afford to ignore it. Reinforcing the importance of taking precautionsContinue Reading
I had what is not-so-affectionately called “morning sickness” during the first trimesters of my two previous pregnancies, and I am currently in the throes of it now with my third. I have been lucky enough thus far to have had the nausea subside by week 13-14 or so, and goingContinue Reading
Ultimately, we all DO want to know how to maximize our health during this crazy time, right? Well, it all comes down to our immune system. Genes-plus-environment determine how our body is affected by outside invaders, and while we can’t change the genes we were born with (like a tendencyContinue Reading