The best time to nourish your body to have a healthy pregnancy is before, but nourishing your body while you're pregnant is going to help you after you're pregnant. And I know it's hard to think about what's coming when you're in the throws of pregnancy, especially if you get super sick, but we want to help you see into the future of what's going to happen after you're pregnant and the benefits of nourishing your body during your pregnancy.

What should you eat when you're preparing for pregnancy and does it really matter? In our society. There's a wide variety of ways that people prepare for pregnancy. They do it by trying to lose weight. They start to take prenatal vitamins from Walmart or Costco or from their OB. They buy ovulation predictors, or they work with a fertility doctor. 

But we feel like the most important way to prepare is to use nutritional therapy, to nourish your body and balance your hormones.

These are decisions that are just once and done. And that's fun because a lot of people do have a hard time be able to change breakfast, lunch, and dinner and snacks tomorrow.
But you know what you can do tomorrow? You can go to the store and buy glass dishes. 

Is Nutritional Therapy going to work to heal your thyroid? Does nutritional therapy work to help you lose weight or help you get pregnant or calm down your acne or help your kids to focus, help fix your anxiety or depression? 

Join us as we discuss where the real power to heal is found. 

I tried buying organic and it didn't make a difference. I am exercising and not losing weight. I am cleaning up my diet and not seeing a difference. A few reasons why that might be the case.

It might decrease your time in the short term, but in the longterm, it will increase your time in so many ways. 

Is it more expensive to eat nutrient dense foods or conventional foods? Do you save more time by taking care of yourself or making your day super efficient? Does your social life suffer when you start creating lifestyle changes? 

These two ideas might not seem totally related at all, but we're calling our podcast pasture raised versus pasteurized because we want to explore whether we should focus on avoiding germs or on giving the body the things that it needs to be strengthened.

We talked about the five tips to the five tips in summary are number one, drink water in between meals. 
Habit number two, sitting down and chewing your food 20 to 30 times, really having an experience with your food habit. 
Number three, nutrition, start incorporating some more fats and proteins into your food. And we recommend starting with grass fed butter habit.
Number four is balancing your blood sugar, which we can also call balancing your hormones. Really, really important to bring down those insulin levels and the way that we recommend You do that. By starting your day with more fats and more proteins. 
And then tip number five is to practice mindfulness by slowing down when you eat, which is very similar to digestion tip, but taking time to breathe and pray and practice gratitude.

The formula for doing nutritional therapy and things that help your body is pretty simple. It's get the bad stuff out. And the good stuff in. The hard part is knowing what the bad stuff and the good stuff are.