Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey. We hope you

enjoy it. In this episode, we are discussing an important topic that applies to all women that want to feel

their best and thrive, and that's fertility. Fertility is often made a priority when we start

thinking about having kids, but truthfully, optimizing your fertility means optimizing your hormones.

And that's why I invited my friend Kiara here,

who specializes in this in her nutrition practice, to chat about it. Kiara is a functional

fertility nutritionist who works closely with women to teach and create sustainable lifestyle

and nutrition habits to cultivate a body in life that supports healthy hormones. She has

attended the Nutritional Therapy Association, Institute of Functional Nutrition,

and the Root Cause Protocol Institute to further her education. Kiera offers 101 services

and an online course period restoration to help guide you through your fertility journey.

And I feel like people don't quite, like they think fertility and they automatically think

having kids immediately, but I feel like we're going to change the thought process on that today. Yeah, definitely lots of

shifts in perspective. I'm excited. Thanks for being here. Let's start with your background and your

own healing journey. What brought you to women's health, first of all? Because obviously that's like

the main focus. But why are you specifically so passion about

supporting women with their fertility? Good question. I think just like every other practitioner in the

space, we kind of fell into it. I never thought growing up that I would become a nutritionist

that was never truly a passion of mine. Although like in retrospect, I've always been into

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