Welcome to the new balanced bites podcast. I'm your host Liz a nutritional therapy

practitioner and best-selling author bringing you candid, myth-busting and

thought-provoking conversations about food, fitness, and life.

Remember, the information in this podcast should not be considered personal, individual, or medical

advice. Hi friends my guest today is Lisa Hendrickson Jack she is a certified

fertility awareness educator holistic reproductive health practitioner,

author of the book the fifth vital sign and co-author with Lily Nichols who you may also

know of the new book Real Food for Fertility.

Lily Nichols also wrote real food for pregnancy, which you might also have heard of.

Now, with their powers combined, Lisa and Lily, I mean Lisa is a powerhouse on our own, but together we have like Captain

Planet-esque level magic going on with this new book, so I do hope you check it out.

Some of what Lisa and I talked about today that I'm excited to share with you are some of the dirty details.

You all know how much I love dirty details of the history of birth control and in particular this fake bleed that birth control

induces that so many of us for so long probably thought was like our actual

period when in reality it's sort of a fake period of fake bleed so

Lisa talks about that we talk about different fertility tracking methods and I was

shocked actually to hear about how many there are. Obviously, Lisa is an expert, so she's my go-to on this stuff.

And of course, her book with Lily, Real Food for Pregnancy.

I hope you enjoy the chat with Lisa Hendricks and Jack.

The book is Real Food for Fertility.

Lily and I writing it together, which is really exciting.

And we've kind of like tentatively decided. She was like like let's do it on Valentine's Day.

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