Practically Fertile

Recently, I've had an influx of patients that are super fit with a diet that's incredibly lean.  Most of them are scared of a three letter word, fat.

In this episode, I want to smash some misconceptions about fat.  I'll talk about why you shouldn't be afraid of fat, how fat affects fertility, and what type of fats you should avoid, and what type of fats you should be eating.

I also have a freebie that I call "Fatty Bum-Bums".  It's full of healthy fats and will satisfy your sweet tooth at the same time.  To download this freebie, please visit www.adrienne.com/podcast-2

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Thank you and have an amazing week!

If you've been struggling with meal planning and coming up meal ideas, this episode is for you.

For those of you who know me, you know I'm a practical person.  The three meal planning strategies that I'll highlight in this episode are simple and practical. 

Today's freebie is a meal planning template.  It'll teach you how to build your plate for a meal, and also the basic framework for meal planning.  To download, please visit http://adriennewei.com/podcast-2/

Thank you for tuning in!  If you have any feedback, please email me at [email protected]

I call this episode a mini-episode because Jocey Rodriguez, L.Ac. fills in for me since I got sick over the weekend and lost some of my voice. 

Jocey talks about painful periods and periods that start and stop. This is her flying solo and I thought she did a fantastic job. 

I do want to follow up in a future episode to offer more explanation about blood stagnation and what it means because it's a new term for many of you and it may cause some confusion.

For this week's freebie, please visit http://adriennewei.com/index.php/podcast.  If for whatever reason the link doesn't work, please email me at [email protected] and I will send over the freebie.

Thank you for all for being understanding.  I will be back next week and I can't wait!

Happy Thanksgiving to those listeners in the United States and Happy Thursday to those from around the world! 

I feel like the practice of gratitude is so underrated as one of the ways to boost emotional health.  It's also so over-used that I think a lot of people just roll their eyes now and don't really believe that it does anything. 

On this day when it's customary to give thanks and think about what we're grateful, I'm going to talk to you about how the practice of gratitude can boost your health and fertility, backed by scientific studies. 

I also want to challenge you to start the practice daily rather than wait for that one holiday a year to express it.  I'm going to start a gratitude journal today for myself and I hope you'll join me. 

I've been battling a sinus infection, but fighting it off naturally without medications.  Find out what I've been doing and how they can help with fertility.

If you have any suggestions on how to make this show better for you, please drop me a line at [email protected]. 

Enjoy!

In this episode of the Period Talk series, I zone in on what the color of the menstrual flow and the consistency of texture of the flow means for your fertility. 

I have created a private and free Facebook group dedicated to women who are trying to conceive.  This is a safe place for you to share your stories, wins, get support and real tips on how to improve your chances of conceiving.  To join, just search for "How to Get Healthy and Get Pregnant" on Facebook, and ask to join the group. 

I get it.  You're sick of the pregnancy announcements because it should have been you.  You want to be happy for your friends but something inside you is not letting you.  You hate feeling down but don't know how to stop the negative feeling. 

In this episode, I share my Three-Step Method to handling pregnancy announcements gracefully so that you can truly break free from the vicious cycle of negativity. 

Hope you enjoy the episode!  Please don't forget to review this podcast :) 

XOXO

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OK, let's face it... B.O is the ultimate social life killer.  But smelling great doesn't mean you have to sacrifice your health.  Deodorants are loaded with hormone disrupting chemicals, and it's frankly one of the hardest products to find without any toxic chemicals.  There is one solution though...that is to make your own. 

Today, my special guest, friend and fellow Fertility Acupuncturist Jocey Rodriguez shares with us her secret recipe to make your own deodorant.  Trust me, I'm not a DIY person, but her recipe is so simple, a five-year old can probably do it. 

What we put on our bodies are just as important as what we put in our bodies.  Diet and lifestyle changes sometimes are not enough.  Environmental toxins are alive and well around us.  Even if you don't make your own skincare, at least consider swapping out certain products.

To download today's freebie, which is Jocey's recipe for deodorant, please visit www.adriennewei.com/index.php/podcast/

Welcome to episode 5.  In this episode, I'll be talking about how toxins lurking in our external environment can impact fertility.  Specifically, I'll be talking about BPA, a chemical found is nearly everything in our daily lives.  I'll go over how it affects fertility and strategies on how to avoid it.  You just never know if this one simple tweak can make all the difference.

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Let's face it, you need to ovulate to get pregnant.  Ovulation is one of the most important events in a woman's menstrual cycle, but it's the hardest to nail down.  In this episode, I talk about the best time to POS to test for ovulation that's based on scientific research so that you can increase your likelihood of nailing down the fertile window. 

Today's freebie is a list of commonly used fertility abbreviations to help you decode the language.  To download this list, please go to adriennewei.com/index.php/podcast. 

If you have any suggestions for topics, or questions about anything, please email me at [email protected].