FFP 260 | How Early Should You Start Planning For Pregnancy? | Meghan Telpner

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Meghan is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. She is the author of two best-selling, award winning books, UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Healthand The UnDiet Cookbook. Meghan has been featured in Forbes, was ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada by PROFIT Magazine, and was named Best Holistic Nutritionist in 2017 and 2018 by National Nutrition Awards. With over ten years in the field, Meghan works tirelessly to empower her global community of Certified Culinary Nutrition Experts to become health leaders in the respective communities.

And in today’s episode we dive into preconception planning. Even if pregnancy is something you’re thinking about in the distant future, there are things you can start doing today to prepare for it.

Today’s episode is sponsored by The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility. The Fifth Vital Sign is available for purchase on Amazon. Exciting news!! The audiobookis finally here! Listen to The Fifth Vital Signfor FREE when you sign up for a 30 day free trial with Audible. Click here to download now.

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Topics discussed in today's episode:

How Meghan’s self-healing experience for her autoimmune disease led her to her interest and studies in nutrition
There is no one diet for every person or for one person their whole life
How changes in diet could impact your fertility in the preconception phase
Simple things to change in your household to prepare for pregnancy
How to reduce causes of concern in your life when planning for pregnancy
Benefits of getting high quality fat & protein postpartum
The importance of finding answers and solutions that are good for you and your family and not putting too much pressure and stress on yourself to do something that is right for someone else
Why it’s important to also focus on male fertility

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by my very first book, The Fifth Vital Sign, Master your
0:04.9	Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility. With over 1,000 research citations, it is the most comprehensive
0:10.0	resource on fertility awareness and the menstrual cycle to date. The Fifth Vital Sign is available
0:15.1	in paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats on Amazon.com. Listen to the Fifth Vital sign for free when you sign up for a 30-day
0:22.8	trial with Audible. Visit fertility friday.com slash audible for details. That's fertility friday.com
0:29.1	slash audible. This episode is brought to you by my free three-part video series FAM 101. Discover
0:36.5	how to chart your cycles by tracking the three main fertile signs, cervical mucous,
0:41.1	basal body temperature, and cervical position, and ultimately develop body literacy by paying
0:46.5	attention to your fertile signs.
0:48.3	Head over to fertility friday.com slash fam 101 to grab your free copy.
0:53.7	That's fertility friday.com slash fam 101.
0:57.1	This is the fertility Friday podcast episode number 260.
1:04.8	Welcome to the 260th episode of the fertility Friday podcast. Thank you for joining me today. I'm Lisa from
1:12.4	FertilityFrily.com and this is your source for information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility.
1:23.1	I've got a great episode to share with you today. I'm really excited to share my interview with Megan Talpenter.
1:29.9	And, you know, in this episode, we really get into the idea of preconception planning.
1:34.8	And I really like the way that Megan spoke about it. It really gives us some perspective, even if pregnancy is not something that you're considering right now, but it is something on your horizon,
1:44.8	whether it's within the next couple of years or even way down the line, like 10 years from now.
1:50.9	Megan gives us some great food for thought about how we can be thinking about it, how we can be
1:55.4	preparing for it even now, when for many of us it might be something that's way off in the future.
2:02.2	So I know you'll appreciate today's episode. And without further ado, let's jump right in. And I'm very excited to welcome my guest,
2:13.0	Megan Telpenter, to the show today. Megan is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist,
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