Endo Fertility

Welcome to Episode 51! In this episode, we explore the transformative benefits of massage therapy for fertility and endometriosis with the wonderful Jacqueline Beswick, also known as Jac from 'Jacksfeet.' Join us as Jac explains about the benefits of massage and how she got into it. How massage is a long standing ancient practice for healing, the importance of giving yourself an abdominal massage and when to do this to optimise fertility.

A number of actionable tips were discussed including:

• The significance of regular massage as a preventative health measure.
• How massage can improve mental well-being and boost immunity.
• The role of abdominal massage in alleviating symptoms associated with endometriosis.

Episode Highlights:

• Holistic Benefits of Massage  
• Pelvic Stagnation  
• Self-Care Techniques  
• Frequency of Treatment  
• Emotional Healing  
• Adhesion Release  
• Empowerment Through Knowledge  
• Community Support  
• Long-Term Health Benefits

Resources Mentioned

• Jacksfeet: Jac's practice focusing on holistic therapies, including abdominal massage.
• The Abdominal Therapy Collective: An organisation dedicated to teaching self-abdominal therapy techniques for wellness.

Upcoming Episodes:

• EF#52 - How to Optimise Male Fertility and Sperm Quality (for Men's Health Awareness Month)
• EF#53 - Client experience and success to a family of four

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Welcome to Episode 50! In this episode, Lizzie explores 5 signs of healthy ovulation. Lizzie discusses regular menstrual cycles, typically 24-35 days long, changes in cervical mucus becoming clearer and more stretchy around ovulation, increase in basal body temperature by 0.3°C or 0.5°F after ovulation, increased libido and sexual desire around ovulation, and mild cramps and breast tenderness around ovulation.

Lizzie provides several actionable tips to help you optimise your ovulation and fertility. She recommends maintaining a balanced, anti-inflammatory diet, engaging in regular, moderate physical activity, tracking the menstrual cycle and symptoms, and getting the thyroid function checked, as these can all have a significant impact on ovulation.

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Episode Highlights:

• Regular menstrual cycles, typically 24-35 days long

• Changes in cervical mucus becoming clearer and more stretchy around ovulation

• Increase in basal body temperature by 0.3°C or 0.5°F after ovulation

• Increased libido and sexual desire around ovulation

• Mild cramps and breast tenderness around ovulation

How to work with me:

• One off 1:1 coaching sessions e.g. blood test reviews and fertility strategy sessions, gut health assessments

• Personalised 1:1 Endo Fertility coaching programs

• >>Book your free 30 minutes 1:1 health review HERE

In this episode, we welcome Alison Hall, a Registered Nutritional Therapist and Functional Medicine Practitioner, who shares her profound journey from a successful career in television to specialising in fertility and nutrition. After experiencing personal challenges with miscarriage and pregnancy, Alison retrained in nutritional therapy to help others navigate their fertility journeys and now has a very successful practice. She now specialises in preconception care, IVF preparation and pregnancy nutrition, with a particular interest in miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage. Alison runs a busy on-line clinic and is now mum to three daughters.

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In this episode, Lizzie shares three alternative therapies that can support your fertility journey while navigating endometriosis. Each therapy offers unique benefits and actionable tips for implementation.

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After a two-year break from the podcast, Lizzie returns to share her personal struggle with endometriosis, secondary infertility, and her journey of trying to conceive (TTC) across international borders. This comeback episode offers valuable insights for anyone dealing with fertility challenges with endometriosis.

• Lizzie's fertility journey since her last update (Episode 44, May 2022)

• Balancing endometriosis management with trying to conceive

• Exploring IVF and donor egg IVF as fertility treatment options

• Navigating international moves while undergoing fertility treatments

• The impact of environmental factors (like mould exposure) on fertility and overall health

• Coping with failed IVF attempts and the emotional toll of infertility

• The importance of laparoscopic surgery in treating endometriosis

• Managing hormonal imbalances and their effect on fertility

• Addressing immune system issues in relation to implantation failure

• The role of mental health support in a fertility journey

1. Embracing change during your fertility journey

2. Maintaining positivity while dealing with infertility

3. Prioritising self-care and stress management

4. Trusting your instincts about your body and health

5. Importance of nutrition in fertility and endometriosis management

6. Building a support network while dealing with infertility

7. Acknowledging the emotional aspects of the TTC journey

8. Preparing for setbacks in fertility treatments

9. Seeking professional guidance for fertility issues

10. The value of persistence in facing fertility challenges

• Episode 44: Post-partum Recovery and Fertility Journey

•  each week check this out for new goodie’s from Lizzie and her guests.

This episode is sponsored by the Ultimate Endo Fertility Library - sign up HERE to get yourself on the mailing list and started with a Quick Start Endo Fertility E-book, a symptom tracker, delicious recipes, workbooks, guided meditations, and other helpful resources.

• Episode 47 [Next Episode] - Interview with a psychotherapist on fertility-related mental health

• Deep dives into donor IVF, choosing overseas fertility clinics, and preparing for fertility-related surgeries

• Expert interviews on topics including recurrent miscarriage, Mayan abdominal massage for fertility, and the connection between Epstein Barr Virus, endometriosis and infertility

• One off 1:1 coaching sessions e.g. blood test reviews and fertility strategy sessions

• Personalised 1:1 Endo Fertility coaching programs

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My guest today is Danielle Ryan-Broida, who was previously on the podcast (EF#38) to discuss her recently finished book she co-authored with Tero Isokaupilla, founder of Four Sigmatic, which is being launched next week. We talk about the adaptogens in the book, including functional mushrooms from reishi to chaga, ashwaghanda, cacao, turmeric, schishandra, goji berry, acerola cherry and how these can support those with Endometriosis

So Danielle is a key player in the worldwide mushroom movement and is a Registered Herbalist, as well as a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Instructor of Mycology, and National Educator at Four Sigmatic, Danielle is teaching the world about the importance of a life on functional mushrooms.

After travelling the world and gaining skills, knowledge and training, she completed her graduate studies at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism (CSCH). She then opened her private practice where she worked with hundreds of clients specializing in functional mushroom based treatment for individuals with autoimmune conditions and chronic illness. She was invited to become the Instructor of Mycology at CSCH, where she still teaches. Danielle brings her passion and expertise in herbal medicine, clinical practice, teaching, formulation, and her deep love for fungi to everything she does.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why Danielle and Tero chose to write a book on Adaptogens
• How adaptogens are more accessible than ever before
• How adaptogens are safe
• Sustainability now that adaptogens are more available globally
• How to thrive and not survive by using adaptogens and nature
• How adaptogens can help unblock your flow of vitality
• How adaptogens work differently from one person to another
• Why this book gives you reliable information
• How adaptogens can helps “Defend, Perform and Restore” and how they can support healing Endometriosis symptoms and improving your fertility.
• Which adaptogens to start with for Endo and fertility

Check out the Healing Adaptogens Book website: https://healingadaptogens.com

You can pre-order now here until 27th September 2022 and you get lots of pre-order offers from Amazon, Waterstone, Barnes and Noble, Booktopia e.g. “adaptogen before and after checklist”, 5 people that pre-order will get a clinical session with Danielle

Do you want more information, including a FREE copy of one of the short guides I share with my clients on Functional Mushroom – then check out the website: https://endofertilityspecialist.com/endo-fertility-podcast/

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In this week's episode I talk about my personal healing journey so far since the birth of my son in optimising my fertility, the things I have done, tried and tested, what hasn't worked, what I worry about, and what I wished I had done differently, as well as the things that I have been struggling with.

This is a very personal episode, and it was very therapeutic doing it, but also I feel quite vulnerable publishing it, as we are still TTC - I hope you find this helpful.

Be patient, things come to those that wait x

My guest today is Maya Krikke, the sole Founder & Artisan Brewer of Myk’s Kefir (soon to be MYMY. Operating out of the Food Connect Shed in Brisbane, Australia, she is one of 37 small businesses seeking to change the food ecosystem. Commercially crafting audacious yet extraordinary probiotic drinks since 2015, her mission to make ethical and sustainable decisions for packaging, ingredient sourcing, and minimal food processing, has yielded potent, small-batch, artisan ferments of the most outrageous and exquisite flavours one could imagine (like the Gin lovers’ compliment, the organic Rhubarb & rose scented Geranium). Armed with a vision to better educate and communicate the science-based secrets of tibicos (water kefir) cultures, she wants to enable access to any family home with the desire to learn more and create their own unique flavour. The MYMY probiotic pouch is like an equivalent to the Betty Crocker of home fermenting. Her debut kids probiotic workshop last week demonstrated that even a 7 year old can become a Brew Master in a day.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Maya got into making kefir for herself and her toddler son
• Using juice vs fresh whole fruit to flavour kefir
• How Maya got into selling her kefir
• How Maya’s product is different from others
• The disadvantage of commercial fermented products
• How much more potent Maya’s kefir is to other commercially produced products
• My disastrous experience of exploding kefir!
• Kombucha vs Kefir
• Sugar-free / vegan kefir
• How kefir and acidic products like lemons alkalises your body
• How Maya’s kefir was made to “con a child it is a fizzy drink” but with health benefits
• What kefir is and how you make it
• Making water kefir and avoiding making yeast infections worse
• Benefits of kefir and gut health
• What happens if you drink too much kefir at once
• Providing local farmers with waste probiotic fruit
• Water kefir vs kombucha and how to drink them to get the best benefits for your gut and bowel movements
• Tips on how to make your own kefir
• Maya’s home making pouch’s
• Maya’s resources, up-coming events and new website

If you want to see the bottles and kefir bubbles that Maya showed me in her interview go to the website (link below), where you will find a short video.

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In this episode I talk about how you can optimise the follicular phase of your cycle through food and lifestyle. In particular, from the perspective of having Endometriosis and of course trying to conceive.  

It includes:

• What the follicular phase is and what happens biologically during this time.
• The importance to properly clear the endometrial lining during and after your period
• The things you can do during your period
• The causes of a poor endometrium
• Things you can do to enhance your womb lining, follicle development and egg maturation before ovulation.

There will be two further episodes this season related to this one on optimising ovulation and fertilisation, and then for embryo implantation and early pregnancy maintenance.

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Lizzie is a certified integrative and functional health coach, holistic massage therapist, Endo sufferer and mum of one. Lizzie works with women with Endometriosis to help them find a way to get back to a healthy fertile cycle through her 1:1 coaching programmes. Find out more at https://endofertilityspecialist.com