Trying to Conceive? This Fertility Case Study Is for You | Ep 409
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like you’ve done EVERYTHING to support your fertility journey, cleaned up your diet, worked on your gut health, taken all the supplements, tracked alllll the things and you’re still not pregnant… this episode will speak to you.
Erin and TFN Practitioner Nicole Antes are walking through a fertility case study for a client who came to them after trying to conceive for a year with a 16+ supplement routine that wasn’t necessarily supporting her body in the way it needed.
Together, they get into the downstream effects of overly aggressive gut protocols, hyper-fixation, nervous system regulation, and how easy it can be for TTC to feel like a full-time job. There were some subtle shifts that helped this client finally move the needle and get a positive pregnancy test!
In this episode:
- The role of methylation, mitochondrial health, and antioxidant support in egg quality and embryo development
- Why herbal antimicrobials can sometimes “kill the good guys” after aggressive gut protocols
- How Dad’s health influences a healthy fertility journey, and how sperm quality can shift within 3-6 months
- Why taking a month off from tracking could be the most supportive nervous system shift
- The surprising thing this client did before finally getting a positive pregnancy test
Resources mentioned:
Real Food For Fertility by Lily Nichols and Lisa Hendrickson-Jack (see Chapter 9!)
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| 0:00.0 | Our mitochondrial health, our mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. I'm sure people know, |
| 0:05.8 | know that saying. It's so important for our cellular health, for nutrient status, |
| 0:10.7 | hormone production, and egg quality. And so we also know that egg quality and embryo development |
| 0:17.6 | requires really strong methylation capacity. So we'd already been kind of |
| 0:22.2 | working on ways that we could improve methylation. And it's also really helpful to focus on |
| 0:28.3 | nutrients that are going to be very supportive of methylation that are antioxidant rich, |
| 0:34.6 | that are key cofactors for our mitochondria as well. So a lot of those things |
| 0:40.0 | include an acetyl cysteine or knack, ALA, CO-Q-10. Those are really powerful antioxidants that can be |
| 0:48.0 | really supportive of egg quality. Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a |
| 0:52.6 | K because we do things a little differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience |
| 0:58.4 | as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive |
| 1:03.1 | functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 1:08.9 | This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to |
| 1:13.2 | heal and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your |
| 1:18.0 | health, be sure to follow and share with the friend because you never know whose life you might |
| 1:22.1 | change. Hi friends. Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about fertility. Specifically, we're |
| 1:30.5 | going to go over a client example that came to us who's trying to conceive. You guys really |
| 1:36.2 | seem to enjoy these case study episodes. And it's the thing that we get the most requests on, |
| 1:41.5 | more case studies, where we're actually unpacking real-world clients, |
| 1:45.8 | like how they came to us, what we did. So today I have Nicole here with me to share about a recent |
| 1:51.8 | client of her. So welcome back to the show, Nicole. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here again. |
| 1:57.6 | So just a quick note before we jump into this, we are certainly not fertility experts. |
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