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#553: Healthy Habits for Fertility and Reproductive Health – Marjorie Nolan Cohn, RD

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode focuses on the intersection of nutrition, lifestyle, and women's health, with a particular emphasis on managing complex conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

Registered dietitian Marjorie Nolan Cohn shares insights from over two decades of clinical practice, highlighting the importance of addressing foundational health behaviors—such as adequate sleep, hydration, and nutrient-dense dietary patterns—before introducing targeted interventions like supplementation.

Marjorie explores the nuanced relationship between body weight, metabolic health, and fertility, while addressing misconceptions around weight loss as a primary health goal. The episode examines the role of long-term, individualized care in improving symptoms and outcomes for women experiencing significant menstrual-related challenges.

Practical considerations for practitioners, including strategies to build trust, identify key barriers, and provide holistic support, are outlined alongside the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve care quality.

Marjorie Nolan Cohn is a registered dietitian with a Masters Degree in Food and Nutrition Science from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is the Clinical Director of Berry Street, a company providing virtual in-network nutritional counseling to people across the US.

Timestamps

  • [04:32] Beginning of the interview
  • [08:39] The role of nutrition in fertility
  • [13:40] Understanding PCOS and endometriosis
  • [16:28] Barriers to accurate women's health diagnoses
  • [19:03] Exploring diet and lifestyle strategies
  • [23:28] Addressing challenges in women's health and nutrition
  • [39:01] Closing remarks and final takeaways

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 553 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon

0:08.6

and you are very welcome to the show. Before we dive into today's interview, I just wanted to give

0:14.7

a reminder that next week we'll be opening up enrollment for applied nutrition literacy, the course developed by

0:23.8

Dr. Alan Flanagan and myself, which brings you through basically all the things you will need to know

0:29.4

to start reading, research, interpreting that in detail, and be able to understand some of the

0:34.6

important concepts behind nutrition science.

0:37.9

It's laid out across eight modules.

0:40.1

We'll go for some conceptual things like the things you need to understand about

0:43.7

nutrition epidemiology or randomized control trials and nutrition, meta-analyses,

0:49.1

how you can actually interpret those, going through real actual examples.

0:53.2

So if that's pulling up a forest plot from

0:56.0

meta-analyses, showing you what to look out for and how you can learn to interpret whether a particular

1:02.2

study is good quality or poor quality, whether it actually says what is in the conclusions,

1:08.2

and how you can start making a determination about studies based on the

1:12.0

actual data and results that are presented to you and then have real confidence that you can

1:17.2

assess these studies, whether that's for learning about a new topic or for updating your knowledge

1:22.3

in a particular area, or maybe you have seen a particular study getting waved around by someone or you have a client

1:29.2

or a patient who has asked you about a certain claim that has made or a new study that's came

1:34.4

out showing some type of outcome. You can be able to go through that and feel confident in your

1:39.6

interpretation of what that study actually says. And so we are delighted that there is another cohort that will be

1:47.2

starting in the next number of weeks. So we'll open enrollment the middle of next week if you're

1:53.4

listening to this episode as it goes out. So that is that will be opening sometimes at the end of

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