The Best Fertility, Pregnancy & Postpartum Nutrition Protocols | Lily Nichols
The Art of Being Well
Dear Media, Will Cole
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Will Cole is joined by registered dietitian and best-selling author Lily Nichols, RDN, for a deep dive into fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum nutrition. From the alarming drop in sperm quality to the overlooked importance of protein, liver, and fat-soluble vitamins, this episode breaks down what women and men need to know about optimizing reproductive health. Lily shares her evidence-based approach to preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum care, drawing from her research in Real Food for Fertility and Real Food for Pregnancy. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:05.4 | Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole. |
| 0:08.9 | This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. |
| 0:15.4 | This is the art of being well. |
| 0:28.3 | What's up and welcome to the art of being well? |
| 0:35.7 | Basic labs oftentimes miss so much when it comes to figuring out how you can optimize your health, how you can feel your best. |
| 0:37.7 | If you stuck at a plateau, if you know intuitively something's off here, something's in balance, |
| 0:43.1 | I'm not thriving. |
| 0:44.7 | Then I would really encourage you to educate yourself to look at a functional medicine perspective on labs. |
| 0:52.1 | And this is something I've been doing for the past 16 plus years, |
| 0:55.0 | helping people around the world look at the pieces of their health puzzle. It's based on somebody's |
| 1:00.0 | health history. You don't need all the labs under the sun. But what's relevant for you? What are |
| 1:04.7 | the proverbial stones that are most likely to have something underneath it that are the pieces to your health puzzle. |
| 1:12.7 | So it could be things like underlying gut problems, hormonal imbalances, nutrient deficiencies. |
| 1:18.5 | It could be stealth infections like bacteria, viral issues, mold, parasite issues. |
| 1:24.4 | It could be environmental toxins like herbicides, pesticides, microplastics, forever |
| 1:29.4 | chemicals. All of this stuff can be dealt with. All of these things can be optimized and supported |
| 1:34.8 | and healed and reversed, whatever needed. So this isn't about fear mongering. This isn't about |
| 1:40.4 | looking for problems where there isn't a problem. You know your body. There's so much medical gas lighting. There's so many people that put off feeling just not good, not having great energy, not having good, whatever it is. And you have to do something different to see something different. So if you want to learn more about how we help people around the world, at the time of recording, there's new telehealth patient spots and options |
| 2:01.6 | now open. If you want to learn more about the different paths or different people, check it out at |
| 2:06.3 | Dr.willcold.com. That's dR-W-I-L-C-O-L-E dot com. Head on over to the Become a Patient page. |
| 2:14.4 | All right, let's get to today's guest. Her name is Lily Nichols. Brilliant human |
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