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The In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Dela Cruz, or you may know her as innate functional

nutrition on Instagram to share knowledge on how to prepare your body for conception.

Lauren is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner, root cause protocol consultant,

and functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner that specializes in

preconception nutrition. Her mission is to empower women with the tools and the knowledge they need

to regulate their cycles, balance their hormones, heal their metabolism, optimize their

fertility, and have a thriving pregnancy. So the goal today is to talk about that preconception time.

I feel like as soon as you get into preconception,

pregnancy, prenatal nutrition, it starts to get infusing. I get a lot of questions around this stuff,

like what do I follow, what's correct, what's not, what's up to date based on research.

So the goal is to just kind of go through what's the most essential for people to dig into

during this time when they're

preparing to conceive and then hopefully like dispel a few myths because I feel like we get really

bad advice on conception from doctors. So thank you for being here with me, Lauren. Oh, thanks so much

for having me, Amanda. I'm super excited to be here. So if you guys don't follow Lauren on Instagram,

please do. I feel like I always look at your

post. Like it's, and you know, when you look at someone's stuff all the time, it comes up on

top of your feet. It's like always really good quality content. And like you even share

resources and stuff like above and beyond for sure. So if you're interested in this stuff or

even just like hormone health, because I personally feel like fertility is just

health, you know, whether you want to have a baby or not. But I'm really curious to know,

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