Eating to Help Refill Your Fertility Cup

Eating to Help Refill Your Fertility Cup

Your Fertility Cup* reflects the strength of your reproductive function and ability to conceive.

If your Fertility Cup is empty you need to refill it to conceive and carry a healthy baby to term.

One of the ways to refill your Fertility Cup is through what you eat.

Rather than diving into copious details about the specific foods to eat and avoid, which will probably only cause you further stress (another factor that empties your cup) I’ll give you overall general guidelines here.

Eat More of These to Refill Your Fertility Cup*

• Fruit and Vege – so good for your body in so many ways. Fruit in particular is great: ‘Eat fruit to produce fruit’. Fruit and vege cleanses your system and provides great nutrition. They also contain high quality glucose, which is needed for healthy reproductive function. Fruit and vege teaming with ‘pro fertility’ compounds include wild berries, bananas, oranges, avocados, grapes, melons, cucumbers, limes, cherries, spinach, kale, artichokes, garlic, asparagus, potatoes, sprouts and raw honey.
• Whole Foods – eat foods as nature intended – whole.  So eat the whole potato (skin and all) rather than make mashed potato from a packet.  Organic is is course best as it helps to reduce your toxin load.  But if you can’t do all organic, try to the following organic: potatoes, leafy greens, broccoli and celery.  Otherwise standard fruit and vege is fine but wash things well.

Eat Moderately

• Good Fats – good fats such as those in avocado and nuts can trigger beneficial hormone production but don’t go overboard.  Your liver dislikes all fats and it will compromise your liver function if you eat too much of it.  A healthy and robust liver helps to govern your periods.  If you suffer from bad PMS or period pain then go easy on fats.

Eat Less of These (they stop you from filling your Fertility Cup)

• Cold Food and Drink – if you are too cold then don’t make yourself colder by consuming cold things.  Being too cold empties your Fertility Cup* and affects your hormone production.
• Processed Foods – see ‘Eat more whole foods’ above.
• Grains & Sugar – (particularly grains that contain gluten) cause a lot of inflammation and feed pathogens (viruses, bacteria and parasites) to increase your toxin load.  A high toxin load affects your fertility.
• Eggs – eggs feed pathogens to increase your toxin load.
• Highly Adrenalised Foods Including Animal Protein and Dairy – high levels of adrenaline are almost like an antifertility drug.
• Coffee and Alcohol – coffee spikes your adrenaline and alcohol compromises your liver.  Neither are good for fertility.

What Now?

Before you freak out about cutting out all the foods you love, know that doing something is better than nothing.

So, try eating 50% more fruit and vege and 50% less of the things you shouldn’t eat.  This can have a big affect on refilling your Fertility Cup to improve your ability to conceive and carry to term.

But the more you can do to eat as we’ve just discussed, the better you will be able to start filling your Fertility Cup* again.

If you’d like more information about foods then book a Free 45 Minute Natural Fertility health Check*.

*This service is provided free by our practitioners. There are no conditions and no other paid services subsidise these free appointments.

[Special Note: Ketogenic diets have become popular to lose weight.  They are typically high in protein and fats and low in high glycaemic index carbs.  Whilst they can do a great job at helping you lose weight they probably don’t do your fertility many favours.  The problem is too much fat (even good fats) impacts your liver function (which governs your periods according to natural medicine).  Also your reproductive system needs high quality glucose, not huge amounts of protein, to function well.  Although, reducing high GI carbs (like bread, pasta, cake, etc…) will do good things for your fertility.  So, unless you have a lot of weight to lose, it is better for your fertility to mainly eat fruit and vege with some protein (and cut out the naughty carbs).]

Stress and Fertility

Stress and Fertility

We’re often asked if stress affects fertility. We think so.

Blood Flow is Key to Good Health

In natural medicine good blood flow is one of the keys to good health.

Your blood contains the oxygen, nutrients and hormones that your body and its organs and tissues need to function properly.

When your blood flow is strong everything in your body ‘gets fed and watered’ properly so everything has the ‘fuel’ to work as it should.

But when your internal blood flow becomes restricted, this is when trouble starts.

Just image if I was able to turn off an imaginary tap that fed blood to your arm. Your arm would soon be starved of the oxygen, nutrients and hormones it needed and it would start to malfunction – loss of strength, tingling, numbness, shaking, cold….

It’s the same situation anywhere else in your body.

Stress Affects Your Blood Flow & Your Fertility

When you get stressed you get ‘tight’ on the outside (neck and shoulder typically) AND you get tight on the inside (the blood vessels).

Your blood vessels are made of smooth muscle.  They can be relaxed and open (good blood flow) or tight and narrow (restricted blood flow).  This can affect some organs or all organs depending on the individual.

Constant daily stress leads to chronic vessel restriction, which leads to chronic blood flow problems.

This includes to the organs that most impact your fertility including your liver, kidney, ovaries and uterus.

If these organs are suffering from poor blood flow, this is highly likely to make conceiving and carrying a healthy baby to term more difficult.

Also, poor blood flow contributes to too being too cold, which also impact your body temperatures and fertility.

Stressors trigger a flight or flight response by our body forcing a release of cortisol (which also contributes to weight gain) and adrenaline (which in high volumes is toxic for your liver).

This whole fight or flight response was meant to be triggered occasionally when we found ourselves in a dangerous situation (like being confronted by a tiger in the wild).  But today we see the metaphorical tiger every day in work, finances, home life…..

So, we have a fight or flight response every single day.

It’s no wonder poor blood flow and hormonal imbalances are affecting so many women’s fertility.

How Do You Know If You Have Too Much Tension and Poor Internal Blood Flow?

Some typical symptoms include:

• Cold hands and feet
• Painful periods
• Feel tense and irritable
• Bad PMS symptoms
• Endometriosis and PCOS
• Visible blue/purple/green veins on your arms and legs
• Extended blue/purple sublingual veins under your tongue (take a look in the mirror).

These are some typical signs but we get a much more accurate picture by reading your radial pulse.

What Can You Do About It?

There are a number of things you can do which can help a lot.

• Remove or reduce your exposure to the stressors in your life (not always easy or possible though).
• Allocate time daily to de-stress. Yoga, tai chi, qigong, hard exercise, hobbies and getting out into nature.
• Use natural medicine to help you when you need it.

Note: exercise typically doesn’t correct poor internal blood flow.  When you exercise your vessels will widen to take the extra blood flow required.  But when you are finished, they pretty well go back to where they were.  You have to deal with this at a more fundamental organ level.

Without Good Blood Flow You Cannot Fill Your Fertility Cup

In natural medicine theory to conceive and carry a healthy baby to term your health needs to be strong.

Good blood flow is required for this.

And stress affects blood flow.

So in our experience, stress and fertility are definitely related.