Emma Whitney is the Laboratory Manager at The Evewell. She is also Emma the Embryologist on Instagram and does great educational posts about embryology to make it more accessible and understandable, to help people going through treatment. Emma is so passionate and so experienced and shares a lot of great insights.

We discuss:

And talking of which.......

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Cervical Mucus. It's something that Katy and myself talk about a LOT. In fact, we first met on Instagram because we were both discussing this topic. I don't know why we haven't dedicated a whole episode to it before but here we are. A whole 30 minutes talking about the wonder that is cervical mucus and why it's so important and so helpful when you're trying to conceive.

In this episode we discuss:

You can find out more about Katy's Fertility Awareness course and 121 work here.

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Ed Coats is a fertility consultant, hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgeon and medical director at the Evewell West London clinic. He joins us to share his experiences and thoughts on assisted conception and IVF. He explains, who can benefit from treatment, why and when you might consider IVF as an option.

We discuss

If you'd like to find out more about IVF, or the different treatments offered with assisted conception you can lots of information from the HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority). For information on the Evewell follow this link.

💛 Want to learn more about your fertility? We're currently running Foundations for Fertility. This is a 5 week FREE course on understanding, optimising and investigating your fertility. With the aim of reducing your overwhelm & anxiety and empowering you to take back some control. You can register for ⁠FREE HERE ⁠and you can catch up on all previous episodes in our ⁠Don't Tell Me to RELAX⁠ community group.

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We're kicking off Series 3 talking about acupuncture!

I realised that we have never actually done an episode about acupuncture and fertility so I thought now is a good time to address this. For this episode we have swapped roles and Katy is interviewing me. In this episode we discuss:

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This week I am joined by Dr Helen O'Neil, CEO and Founder of Hertility, a company providing at home hormone and fertility tests for women. With Hertility as well as the at home blood testing you also get access reproductive specialist consultations and fast-tracked pelvic ultrasound scan referrals.

We discuss:

💛 Want to learn more about your fertility? We're currently running Foundations for Fertility. This is a 5 week FREE course on understanding, optimising and investigating your fertility. With the aim of reducing your overwhelm & anxiety and empowering you to take back some control. You can register for ⁠FREE HERE ⁠and you can catch up on all previous episodes in our ⁠Don't Tell Me to RELAX⁠ community group.

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This is a well timed episode on the back of the recent Channel 4 documentary "Celebrity Save Our Sperm" Which I can highly recommend if you haven't already watched it. It really does highlight the importance and the impact of lifestyle and nutrition on sperm.

So for this episode I am joined by Pilar Manzanaro, a registered Nutritional Therapist and certified Functional Medicine Practitioner by the  Institute of Functional Medicine, Pilar runs a highly successful pre-conception and fertility clinic for men and women trying to conceive naturally or undergoing IVF treatment. And in this episode she shares bucket loads of information on nutrition, supplements and lifestyle for good sperm health.

We discuss:

If you'd like more information please see Pilar's website, she offers zoom consultations for men and women.

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Endometriosis is the name given to the condition where cells similar to the ones in the lining of the womb are found elsewhere in the body. For many people this condition can have a huge impact on fertility. It is estimated that 30 to 50% of people with Endo will experience fertility problems. To discuss this in more detail I am joined this week by Louise Collyer, a highly experienced TCM acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine herbalist and Functional Medicine practitioner, who specialises in women's health, fertility and endometriosis.

We discuss:

You can find out more about Louise's Endometriosis programme here, which is available to anyone across the country. And you can follow her on instagram here.

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This week I am joined by Farzanah Nasser, a thyroid health expert, nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner. Thyroid health is important for so many functions in the body, including fertility, menstrual cycles and pregnancy.

We discuss

You can follow Farzanah on instagram here and to find out more about her course follow this link.

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I decided we couldn't do episodes on testing without a dedicated one to the men. So Ian Stones from TestHim kindly joins me this week to look at where we're at with male fertility testing and why we need to be doing more.

In this episode we discuss:

As always, we hope you have found this helpful. You can follow TestHim on Instagram here, and listen to their podcast here.

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This week, I'm super excited to have Dr Amanda Chisholm on the podcast. She's a GP and a lifestyle medicine practitioner who's all about the holistic approach to care. We're going to dive into fertility testing from the perspective of an NHS GP and share insight to make sure you get the right testing and investigations to support your fertility and have a healthy pregnancy.

In this episode we cover:

We hope you find this super helpful and we'd love to hear your experiences of getting the right tests and how supported you felt with this.

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