#144: Nutrition and exercise for fertility
The Dr. Shannon Show
Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to fit body happy joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're talking about nutrition for fertility and we're talking about nutrition when you're trying to conceive. I truthfully wish I had this information a year before I even started trying because you can |
| 0:16.4 | start implementing things as early as possible to improve insulin sensitivity and prime your body for fertility. |
| 0:23.8 | So make sure to send this to all of your friends who want kids maybe someday in their future, |
| 0:29.2 | but maybe it's not on their radar yet. |
| 0:31.3 | Because I think most women don't start paying attention to improving. their |
| 0:35.0 | on their radar yet, because I think most women don't start paying attention to improving their fertility |
| 0:35.7 | until they're ready to start trying. |
| 0:38.0 | Whereas it may happen faster if you were working on some of the nutritional |
| 0:42.4 | and exercise and lifestyle things like |
| 0:44.4 | balancing your blood sugar which we're going to talk about today long before you |
| 0:47.8 | start trying because many of the things that are good for your fertility are |
| 0:51.6 | also going to be good for your overall health, so it's not like it will hurt to start implementing these things sooner than later. |
| 0:58.0 | So today I have Becca on the podcast. I'll introduce her in just a second. In this episode we talk about |
| 1:06.1 | nutrition if you are trying to conceive and you're underweight or if you're |
| 1:10.7 | normal weight or overweight some things to do. |
| 1:13.0 | She talks about how and why to balance your blood sugar. |
| 1:17.0 | We get into micronutrients and how to track your micronutrients. |
| 1:21.0 | We touch a little bit on exercise and then we also touch about what men can do to start to improve their fertility and a lot more. We get super detailed and I truly think that anyone who is family planning should listen to this episode. |
| 1:36.0 | So, Becca Romero is the founder of Little Life Nutrition, |
| 1:40.0 | and Online Fertility Nutrition Practice. Becca is a licensed an online fertility nutrition practice. |
| 1:43.0 | Becca is a licensed dietician nutrition and a certified nutrition specialist. |
| 1:49.0 | She specializes on addressing infertility. |
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