the time to build your nutrient reserves really is preconception.

And since I've long been talking about, you know,

how you eat during pregnancy and risk of pregnancy complications,

effects on the baby, epigenetics, all of that, we really have to rewind the clock further and go back to preconception

because ultimately it actually goes all the way back to the quality of the egg and the sperm that combined the, like I guess you could say robustness of your

endometrium. So it's like, get the nutrient reserves in a good place beforehand.

In today's episode, I'm welcoming back, Lily Nichols and Lisa Hendrickson Jack and this time they're here together to talk about their new book

Real Food for Fertility. Lily Nichols is an RDN educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based nutrition.

Her work is known for being research focused, thorough and sensible.

She's the founder of the Institute for Prenatal Nutrition and the co-founder of the Women's Health Nutrition Academy and the author of three books

Real Food for Fertility real food for pregnancy and real food for gestational diabetes.

Lily's best-selling books have helped tens of thousands of mamas and babies

and has been used at the university level, maternal nutrition and midwifery courses and have even influenced prenatal

nutrition policy internationally. Lisa Hendrickson Jack is a certified

fertility awareness educator and holistic reproductive health

practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural

birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health. She's the author of two best-selling books,

the fifth vital sign and Fertility Awareness

Mastery Charting Workbook.

Lisa works tirelessly to debunk the myth

that regular ovulation is only important when you want children

by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific

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