Real Food for Fertility is your ultimate guide to optimizing your nutritional stores before pregnancy.

In Real Food for Fertility, my co-author, Lily Nichols and I argue that a healthy menstrual cycle

sets the stage for optimal fertility and a healthy pregnancy.

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slash real food, one word for details. That's fertility friday.com slash real food. Now let's go ahead and jump

into today's episode. This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 556.

In today's FAMM research series, I am diving into an interesting question.

The title of today's episode is overcoming your ludial phase carb cravings.

This is something that many of us have experienced, where we're going into the week before

our period.

So period's coming soon.

And here we are craving all these carbs, craving chocolate.

And so I found a research paper that looked at this scientifically so that we can gain

some insight into what the research is actually saying about this.

Is this just an anecdotal experience that, you know, so many of us have had? And of course,

not every single woman necessarily would report experiencing this the same way. But either way,

it's a very interesting question and I'm excited to delve into what the research has to say about

it in today's episode.

So I always say that the title of these episodes leaves something to be desired.

The title is changes in micronutrient and food group intakes throughout the menstrual

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