The Fertility Fitness Podcast

Maria and Roisin are discussing IVF (in vitro fertilisation) and its complexities. IVF is not commonly discussed in everyday conversations and often requires medical knowledge to understand the terminology.

Every single person has a different IVF story and whenever I speak to clients and whenever I have consultations, I'm always really taken aback by how different every single person is.

In this week's focus Maria is talking about the hormone Cortisol.

Amber Izzo is a self confessed avid tea drinker, wine enthusiast and lover of the TV show Friends. She is also a fellow member of the infertility community after finding out that her tubes were blocked, which despite best efforts ultimately ended up in her having to have both fallopian tubes removed. Crucially, Amber lead the the Fight For IVF campaign, which resulted in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG reinstating NHS funded IVF in 2021. Amber is co-host of her own awesome podcast “Am I Ovary Reacting” and following her last round of IVF, she is mum to her beautiful boy Joey.

This weeks Fertility Focus is on dopamine and its role in supporting fertility.

This week we are joined by Hannah Vaughan Jones an international broadcaster, consultant, and director who has gone through 15 rounds of IVF before conceiving her son, Sunny. Hannah shares her experience with infertility, which was caused by male and female factors.

On this week's show recommends five fertility-focused books, films, and documentaries.

On this weeks show we discuss supplements for fertility and fitness.

On this weeks Fertility Focus, Maria talks about 5 things that need to be remembered when having sex while trying to conceive.

Jessica Hepburn is an award-winning author, arts producer and adventure activist who has become one of the UK’s leading voices on fertility and family, as well as endurance sport.

In this weeks focus, Maria discusses running and how to get into it