Dr. Deb Matthew joins us today as we're digging into how to address missed healing opportunities for male factor infertility. Most of the time it's women that find me – either by listening to my Get Pregnant Naturally podcast (we recently celebrated over 400,000 downloads) , my blog, YouTube channel, or social media. As you know our proven Fab Fertile Method includes your partner so you can improve your chances of pregnancy success. We’ve reviewed countless tests for men and there are ALWAYS are...
May 31, 2021•59 min
Dr. Tracy Gapin joins us today as we’re digging into how to optimize male fertility so that you can get pregnant naturally. For many men setting up a consult with a doctor or a urologist is the hardest part of the fertility process. I’ve spoken with so many couples that are struggling with infertility and many tell me that the male partner has not even been examined or received a semen analysis – while the female partner has undergone extensive testing. This is not to blame the man. Similar to h...
May 24, 2021•53 min
Dr. Shanna Swan joins us today as we’re digging into why male and female fertility is declining and what you can do to improve your egg/sperm health. At Fab Fertile HQ we talk about the importance of eliminating exposure to environmental toxins. This is crucial for both male and female fertility. A 2017 study from an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, Dr. Shanna Swan has found: Sperm counts have declined by more than 50% over the last 40 years. Current projections point to sperm coun...
May 17, 2021•52 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into how to optimize male fertility. Although we specialize in complex cases such as low AMH, high FSH, diminished ovarian reserve, and premature ovarian insufficiency, more couples are coming to us with both female and male factor infertility. The Fab Fertile Method is effective at addressing both male and female fertility conditions. Even if the male partner tells us his semen analysis is fine – we always include a blood chemistry review and a rev...
May 10, 2021•48 min
Dr. Evan Hirsch joins us today as we’re digging into why optimizing energy levels and addressing fatigue is essential when you are on the TTC journey. Many of us struggle with low energy or fatigue. And while dips in energy can be normal, feeling constantly tired or low energy may be a sign to dig deeper. As you may know, we don’t focus singularly on the infertility diagnosis…. we look at the whole body. So why does fatigue or low energy matter when we are trying to conceive? It could be missed ...
May 03, 2021•56 min
Sarah Phillipe joins We’re digging into breast implant illness and why this matters if you are TTC. At every birthday during my teens when I blew out my candles my wish was always to make my breasts grow. Crazy right…who said big boobs were better? I had a group of girlfriends where all of us had small boobs. And we often discussed getting implants. None of us did. I learned to love my small breasts – that would never droop/sag or interfere with my intermittent love of jogging. The American Soci...
Apr 26, 2021•50 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into the AIP diet and what you need to know if you are TTC. We get a lot of questions about the AIP (autoimmune protocol) diet and if it is right for fertility. As you may know, we specialize in complex cases such as low AMH, high FSH, diminished ovarian reserve, and premature ovarian insufficiency. Most people who come to me are eating a “clean" diet. They’ve made the generalized recommendations for fertility but it’s still not working. We always s...
Apr 19, 2021•40 min
Brandy Buskow joins us today as we’re digging into why gluten matters if you are TTC. I get this question all the time, “Should I go gluten-free if I’m trying to conceive”. As you may know, I was diagnosed with premature ovarian insufficiency at 28 and had both my kids with donor eggs. Years later I discovered food sensitivities, gut infections, and chronic stress were the cause of my infertility. I had no idea that gluten was a problem for my health until years later. Looking back the symptoms ...
Apr 12, 2021•49 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into how to move from the Standard American/Western Diet to a healthy diet for your fertility. Let’s face it eating a diet that is right for our fertility is confusing. Whether it’s fertility superfoods, generalized recommendations about what to eat or avoid for optimized fertility…we may not know where to start. However, we all know that eating packaged processed foods is not healthy for anyone – especially if we are trying to conceive. Changing to...
Apr 05, 2021•45 min
Dr. Amy Day joins us today as we're digging into how to get pregnant naturally with endometriosis. Endometriosis affects approximately 175 million women in the world and 1 in 10 women in their reproductive years. It can take anywhere from 6-10 years to get an endometriosis diagnosis – so many women struggle and are simply told, “that it’s just a bad period”. March is endometriosis awareness month. As you may know, we specialize in complex cases such as low AMH, high FSH, premature ovarian insuff...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Michele Paradise joins us today as we're digging into havening and how this technique can help us on the fertility journey. As you may know, our goal is to help reduce the physical and mental/emotional stressors on the body so that you can achieve pregnancy success. And while meditation, yoga, or breathwork may work for some of us what if you haven’t found a modality that actually helps you to de-stress and reduce anxiety? Have you heard of havening? I first heard of the technique about 6 months...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Jodie Cohen joins us today as we're digging into how to utilize essential oils on the fertility journey. Our goal at Fab Fertile HQ’s is to reduce inflammation and stressors on the body, in order to optimize preconception health and pregnancy success. As you may know, we work with complex cases such as low AMH, high FSH, premature ovarian failure/insufficiency, and/or diminished ovarian reserve. Our proven Fab Fertile Method addresses food sensitivities, gut infections, thyroid dysregulation, bl...
Mar 15, 2021•48 min
Afton Vechery joins us today as we’re digging taking a proactive approach to your fertility early in the journey. In my teens, my periods were so heavy and I would bleed through the pads (it was especially mortifying during high school as I was always worried people could see the huge pad or that I was leaking!). And then in my early 20’s, my periods disappeared altogether and I was placed on hormonal birth control and then diagnosed with premature ovarian insufficiency/failure at 28. My body wa...
Mar 08, 2021•35 min
Welcome to day#3 of our Mini-Series on the impact of stress on fertility. If someone told me that my premature ovarian failure/insufficiency diagnosis was related to food sensitivities, gut infections, thyroid imbalance, blood sugar imbalance, and chronic stress…I probably would have been shocked. When I was diagnosed with POF/POI almost 20 years ago – no one was talking about this. My only hope for children was donor eggs. The doctors told me so. And unfortunately, this is still the same standa...
Mar 03, 2021•29 min
Welcome to day#2 of our Mini-Series on the impact of stress on fertility. I know when I was on the fertility journey I wouldn’t have said I was stressed. I now know that I experienced chronic stress for years. I always felt tense and anxious (I had TMJ and at one point couldn’t even open my mouth to eat). I was very controlling and felt the need to plan everything. I was super impatient and put a lot of pressure on myself to keep going (I didn’t even take time to grieve when I received my POF di...
Mar 02, 2021•29 min
Welcome to day#1 of our Mini-Series on the impact of stress on fertility. Over the next 3 days, I’ll be giving you actionable steps that you can implement right now to reduce the top stressors so that you can optimize your body for pregnancy success. We all know that mental-emotional stress can impact our health, but what impact does it have on our fertility? I’m sure someone has probably told you ”just relax… you’ll get pregnant”. And while this advice may be well-meaning – it is completely unh...
Mar 01, 2021•31 min
Today we’re digging into the top questions to ask before you hire a local practitioner. If you are anything like me when I found functional medicine, I couldn’t believe that no one had told me about it. I was so excited that I literally wanted to tell everyone…but I first started working on myself and then I created a ripple effect of optimal health through my immediate family, friends, and ultimately the fertility community. If you are following me, reading my emails, listening to my podcast yo...
Feb 22, 2021•28 min
Jennifer Robertson joins us today as we're digging into lessons learned from the fertility journey. If someone told me there were valuable life lessons I would learn from the fertility journey – when I was right in the middle of the struggle – I probably would have told them where to go. And it may be easy to share these lessons when we’re on the other side of the journey but we share them because maybe you can see some of yourself in our story. What I know for sure is this journey will force us...
Feb 15, 2021•57 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we're digging into themes we see with low AMH/high FSH. Typically the conventional approach offers very few solutions for these diagnoses as IVF is often not an option and donor eggs are a standard recommendation. What we know after working with couples with low AMH/high FSH is that healing opportunities are regularly missed. When we look at the whole body we can begin to bring the body back into balance so that we can optimize preconception health. I know firsth...
Feb 08, 2021•53 min
Nancy Weiss joins us today as we're digging into how to tap into your spirituality so that you know that your baby is coming. Many times when we’re in the middle of a struggle we can’t even see a way out. However, every struggle has a beginning, middle, and end. And while you may be stuck in the messy middle you do have a choice about how you navigate the fertility journey. That why I designed the Fab Fertile Method to improve your mind, body, and spirit for increased chances of pregnancy succes...
Feb 01, 2021•54 min
Devon Baeza joins us today as we're digging self-sabotage and why this matters for fertility. By January 19th most of us have already given up our New Years' resolution. I know…my chip habit is back (gluten-free and organic but still…lol). And even if you are still pushing through you may be dealing with self-sabotage. We set the goal to eat better, get more sleep, exercise more, and work on our stress, and then life gets in the way…. and next thing we know we’re yelling at our partner, eating t...
Jan 25, 2021•56 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into the basic supplements you need to know about if you are TTC. There is a lot of information about which supplements are right for fertility. And like most women that I speak with you are probably taking A LOT of supplements. But are these supplements optimizing or harming your fertility? And taking supplements for years and not really knowing WHY or if they are helpful...doesn’t make sense either! As you may know, we take a functional approach t...
Jan 18, 2021•39 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into why addressing constipation matters if you are TTC. I remember going away on a girl's weekend (remember those!?!) and somehow we got around to the topic of poop! Well, it turns out half of the girls on the trip weren’t pooping regularly…as in they were going every couple of days or some even going only once per week! Now I’ve always been regular (I know TMI) but it turns out we all need to poop an average of 1-3 times/day. I know it sounds like...
Jan 11, 2021•51 min
Today we're digging into what you need to do so that you don’t waste time when you are TTC. Happy New Year! We all know the saying new year - new you. And if you’re reading this right now you’re probably thinking, 2021 is the year that you’ll finally get pregnant and have your baby. So you start with diet changes, dust off your yoga mat, and commit to meditation. You’re on a roll for the first couple of weeks and then LIFE gets in the way and in comes self-sabotage. And you give up. It’s not you...
Jan 04, 2021•26 min
Monika Friedman joins us today as we’re digging into what a Type A wishes she knew when she was TTC. There was a time that I couldn’t imagine doing anything without a plan. What I know today is that my planning was a way to have some form of control over an uncertain situation. When I was TTC, I had a plan A, B, C, D – if it didn’t work I planned to quit my job and travel around the world with my husband. And while planning has served me well – I’m a get it done kind of person – it has also caus...
Dec 28, 2020•54 min
Today we’re digging into what you need to know before you decide on IVF. I know firsthand what it’s like to be told that IVF is your only option to have children. In my case it was being diagnosed with POI/POF at 28 and told that I could only have children with donor eggs. I know that IVF can feel like your next logical step. You probably feel like you’ve already tried everything. I know that when I dreamed of having my family – it certainly wasn’t with IVF. And although IVF can be successful – ...
Dec 21, 2020•38 min
Today we are digging into the biggest mistakes we see on the fertility journey. As 2020 is drawing to a close you may be wondering what you can do in 2021 to optimize your chances of a successful pregnancy. You’ve probably tried A LOT of different things to improve your fertility. If you’re anything like me in times of stress or uncertainty – you put on your research hat. Hello Dr. Google! I speak to women who tell me they spend hours each day researching, but they end of feeling drained and ove...
Dec 14, 2020•42 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into why blood sugar matters if you are TTC. If you were anything like me when I missed a meal or didn’t eat on my schedule I got “hangry”. Yep, hangry is a real thing – it was recently added to the Oxford dictionary and is defined as “bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.” For me, it was not pretty! I literally had to eat immediately or I became nauseous, irritable, and shaky – and my husband knew to get out of my way! Now that I’ve bala...
Dec 07, 2020•55 min
Justine Altman joins us this week as we're digging into how the different types of stressors impact fertility. I know you are here right now because you want to have your baby. You may be feeling heartbroken, frustrated, angry, and sad. You’ve probably tried “all the things” read the books/blogs, listened to podcasts, and implemented strategies – but nothing has worked. And although it may feel like your next logical step is IVF. I’m here to tell you that it’s not your fault. Conventional medici...
Dec 02, 2020•33 min
Justine Altman joins us today as we’re digging into why sleep matters if you are TTC. It's day #2 of our fertility series. Be sure to check out yesterday's episode on diet so that you know which diet is right for you. We work with our clients for months on sleep. It is the cornerstone of good health and crucial to optimize fertility. If your sleep is poor this is a HUGE clue to dig deeper. So if your sleep is not optimal it’s time to prioritize sleep so that you can balance your hormones and res...
Dec 01, 2020•32 min
