Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Chai on Life podcast. I'm Alex Segal.

Trigger warning for this episode: We speak about pregnancy, miscarriage and diet and nutrition so if any of those things may be triggering for you, definitely feel free to turn off the episode, I completely understand.

Now let’s learn about our amazing guest, Lauren Allen. Lauren is a former sugar addict turned Certified Nutrition Coach who specializes in women's hormonal health and fertility. After being diagnosed with PCOS after struggling with infertility, Lauren discovered the power of using food as medicine to heal her body, balance her hormones, and eventually get pregnant naturally. Lauren believes that all women deserve to harness the power of eating foods that help balance their hormones and optimize their fertility without feeling deprived or restricted. She is the creator of the Balance Your Hormones 101 program and The Empowered Path to Pregnancy program to help women learn how diet and lifestyle changes can help them balance their hormones and optimize their fertility. She coaches women privately as well.

In this episode, we speak about:

-How Lauren got to where she is today, working through a sugar addiction to become a health coach and conceive two children naturally

-What a hormone is and what its role is in your body

-What vital organs in your body do and how the food we eat can affect them

-What balancing our blood sugar means and how to do so effectively

-How to improve out diets to add in more nutrition, in a way that’s not overwhelming

-What it actually means to be “born with all your eggs” — it’s not what you think!

-The best things to eat during the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum periods to optimize your health and your baby’s health

-How to make time to take care of ourselves

…and so much more!

If you want to learn more from Lauren, you can follow her on Instagram @laurenallennutrition and visit her website laurenallennutrition.com — there are tons of awesome recipes on there (I highly recommend the chickpea chocolate chip cookies!) She also has her own podcast called “About Health and Hormones” which you can learn more about here: laurenallennutrition.com/podcast. For more information on her courses, you can also visit her website.

If there is a guest you would like to see on The Chai on Life Podcast, send a DM to @chaionlifemag on Instagram or email [email protected].

Thanks for listening!