Hey, my name is Katie from WellnessMama.com and I'm so excited to be here today to talk

with Chris Cresser who writes at ChrisCresser.com and I've been a huge fan of his work in his website

for a really long time and especially recently his healthy baby code because there's so much research

about how important a mom's diet before enduring an after pregnancy or in Chris's such an expert

in this area. So welcome Chris and I would love for you to tell us a little bit about your

background.

Yeah, it's great to be here. Thanks Katie. Well, I got into this whole world of health

and wellness the same way a lot of people get into it, which is with my own struggles

and in a general sense, I dealt with a pretty serious chronic illness for about 10 years

that I eventually recovered from through a combination of nutrient dense diet and healthy

lifestyle, some smart supplementation, but more specifically as it relates to fertility

and nutrition for fertility and pregnancy, my wife and I started trying to conceive a few

years back I guess about five years ago and after about a year and a half of trying,

we hadn't been successful and I'm sure a lot of people listening to this or watching

this can relate to that. It's really frustrating especially for someone like me who is so interested

in health and you know, as a healthcare practitioner and helping other people with the same problem.

So I took a pretty deep dive into the scientific literature at that point to try to figure out

what was going on and piece together a strategy that would work for us to enable us to conceive

naturally. I mean, we were open to assisted reproductive technology if necessary, but we

wanted to really try to optimize our health so that our bodies could naturally conceive.

That was our first goal and fortunately we were able to do that. We have now a very healthy

daughter, Sylvie who just turned three last week and she's been the blessing of our lives

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