Fertility is a State of Being: Metabolic Wellness Through a Woman's Lifespan - Niecia Nelson
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Fertility is not just the ability to conceive, but is an indicator of overall health and the capacity to nurture life; it is how we extend genetic strength across time and space into generations we will never know. Pregnancy and menopause are transformative states that reveal underlying metabolic and hormonal imbalances, emphasizing the complex interplay between biochemistry, psychology, and lifestyle. In an age of rampant metabolic dysfunction, let us together find our way to renewed vitality, for ourselves and for those yet to come.
Resources:
Medicine Stories Patreon (extended convo w/ Niecia)
Niecia on Instagram
Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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Mentioned in this episode:
Wise Women Diaries podcast interview w/ Niecia telling the story of her first birth, instagram of podcast host is Trusting Life
Niecia has learned about biomechanics in pregnancy and birth from Adelaide Meadow
Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Rachel Reed
Mary Lou Singleton on early motherhood
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, if I can have this healthy of a pregnancy in my late 30s versus the pregnancy |
| 0:09.2 | I had in my 20s, any woman can climb back from severe metabolic dysfunction and do the |
| 0:16.1 | same thing. |
| 0:17.1 | I wholeheartedly believe that. |
| 0:19.1 | There's a living incongruently that women can feel when they're really burnt out and they know that the time that they spend with their children and the experience of motherhood can feel fulfilling and doesn't for them. That it feels draining, that they feel exhausted, that they don't have |
| 0:38.1 | energy, that they feel, this big one I hear, they feel overstimulated by their children. |
| 0:42.4 | How can we transfer fertility in a different way with robust adrenal health and solid thyroid |
| 0:49.4 | function to the menopausal woman? |
| 0:54.3 | Welcome back. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm back. |
| 0:57.4 | Here today with one of my favorite past guests, Nesia Nelson. |
| 1:03.3 | Think of this conversation as the beginning of many more to come. |
| 1:08.0 | Think of this as part one. |
| 1:13.6 | This topic of women's metabolic health is |
| 1:26.6 | enormous. It's what most women, my age that I know, that I am seeing online, hearing from online, want to be talking about. It is a vast and broad topic with a ton of |
| 1:30.4 | complexity and nuance. And if you find yourself desperate, hungry for information, go slow. |
| 1:41.4 | Healing is available. It looks different for everyone. We are going to keep having these conversations |
| 1:48.4 | for you, for all the women who are struggling and trying to figure it out. Nisi and I have recorded |
| 1:55.7 | a bonus Patreon conversation. You'll hear more about that at the very end. We're really looking at |
| 2:03.1 | nutrient, nutrient deficiencies and energy systems within families. I have a lot of |
| 2:09.4 | personal experience with this now over the last two years. So we go into that more deeply at |
| 2:16.3 | patreon.com slash medicine stories. And we also talk about |
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