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5 Signs Your Diet is Why You Can't Get Pregnant · Nourished Fertility

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  Welcome back y'all to the Nourishing Women Podcast, your go-to podcast to
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  get your peer back and to get pregnant.
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  I'm your host, Victoria Myers, peer recovery specialist
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  and fertility dietician,
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  and owner of the virtual coaching Practice, nourishing Minds
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  Nutrition, where we work together to restore your fertility.
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  Today, we're hitting a topic that's going to challenge you, but like in the best
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  way possible, because if you're doing all the right things to get pregnant and.
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  Still not happening, especially if your period is still missing in action.
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  Your ovulation is inconsistent and you're constantly confused
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  about what your body needs.
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  You might need to look a little closer at your diet, not just what
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  you eat, but how you eat and the rules you've built around food, especially
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  if you have a history of dieting.
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  Disordered eating or restriction masked as wellness.
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  Today I'm gonna share five subtle but powerful signs that your
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  diet is actually the very reason why you cannot get pregnant.
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  Let's dig in.
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  Okay, sign number one is that you're scared to eat a big breakfast.
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  You wake up probably really, really early and you delay eating
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  though as long as possible.
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  Maybe you're sipping your black coffee until noon or you convince yourself
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  that you're just not a breakfast person.
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  Maybe for you, you are saying, Hey, a banana or protein bar is all I have
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  time for, but you know, all of these.
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  Let's just be honest and call 'em what they are.
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  Excuses.
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  You know that deep down that they just stem from your old
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  eating disorder patterns.
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  You're used to saving up all your calories for later in the day.
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  Maybe dinner is your biggest milk, or I bet more so.
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  More than anything, it's actually that you're saving up all your
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  calories for your nighttime snack.
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  It could actually be a binge, but it could very well just.
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  Be like that.
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  You're just having a nighttime snack that, um, you're giving yourself approval to
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  eat because you barely ate during the day
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  Or maybe for you, it is that you feel outta control around food after
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  dinner time and you think the answer is to restrict more in the morning.
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  Here's the truth, I want you to know your body needs early fuel to signal safety.
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  Your hypothalamus is looking for signs that you're nourished enough to
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  ovulate a protein rich carb inclusive breakfast helps to stabilize cortisol
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  levels, regulate blood sugar, and tells your hormones it's go time.
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  Specifically breakfast is going to signal safety and tell your
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  body it's safe to produce enough.
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  Go on a good trap of releasing hormone that then leads to FSH, lh, estrogen,
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  all the things we need to ovulate, get your body ovulating, cycling, therefore
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  being able to get and stay pregnant.
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  Okay, so up next, sign number two.
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  You can't eat dessert unless you've exercised.
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  You tell yourself it's about balance, but really you're trying to
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  cancel out your food with movement.
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  Be honest.
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  Are you doing that?
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  Especially sugar, right?
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  Like I feel like most of my clients see sugar as like the
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  ultimate number one enemy.
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  The ultimate failure.
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  If you eat it without kind of compensatory behaviors or like
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  things that allow you to eat it.
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  For you, you have to exercise the day.
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  You eat dessert or you spiral into massive guilt and anxiety, or maybe for
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  you, it causes you to restrict extra the next day, or maybe you tack on an extra
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  minutes of cardio on the next day too.
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  But food is not a math problem.
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  You don't have to earn or burn your food.
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  Sugar in context of an overall nourished diet does not cause infertility.
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  Let me say that again 'cause it's so powerful.
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  Sugar in the context of an overall nourished diet does not cause infertility.
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  Do not let messages you are seeing on the internet convince you of that.
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  What does for you?
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  Is the shame, restriction, and stress.
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  Okay?
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  And the truth is, is if you still fear sugar, your body still feels unsafe.
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  And when it feels unsafe for you, for my people, that's what's causing you not to
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  ovulate, cycle, get and stay pregnant.
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  Okay?
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  Up next, sign number three, that you don't use oil or fat in your cooking.
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  You maybe measure out one teaspoon of olive oil for a whole pan of veggies, but
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  more often than not, I bet you actually like just use a spray or nothing at all.
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  You're just using a little bit of spice.
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  Maybe for you it's that you patch the grease off of your food.
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  You've trained yourself to fear fat because you're scared
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  it will make you gain weight.
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  But let's remember that dietary fats are essential for making
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  estrogen and progesterone.
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  For building a healthy endometrial lining, supporting blood sugar and satiety, and
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  helping your body absorb key vitamins for fertility like A, D, E, and K.
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  If you're skipping on fats, you are literally starving your hormones, and
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  if you're afraid of the calories and a tablespoon of oil, that is really
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  something to reflect on because.
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  Fat again.
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  That fear is actually what's blocking your fertility, not the fat is self.
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  In fact, fats are one of the best things you can consume
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  more of to support fertility.
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  Up next sign.
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  Number four is that carbs are your biggest fear food.
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  You know, I think back in the day, uh, it used to be fat for all of us, right?
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  Especially those of us like myself who grew up in the late
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  1990s and early two thousands.
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  But all of us in today's world, like there is definitely much more of a mesh
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  that we are absorbing that to carb.
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  Other problem, not fat.
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  So maybe you are sign number three where you fear adding a fat, but maybe
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  for you it's more so, or maybe it's.
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  Both honestly, that you avoid red rice, pasta, bagels, muffins, you eat protein
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  and vegetables like it's your job.
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  Maybe squeeze in a little bit of fruit, but otherwise you just, you convince
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  yourself that you don't even like carbs.
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  You tell yourself that they make you bloated or tired, or that
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  you just don't need them or that they're not healthy or fertile
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  foods to consume, but carbohydrates.
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  Especially in the case of pure loss from hypothalamic a amenorrhea are
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  literally your hormonal lifeline.
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  They raise leptin, which signals to your hypothalamus that's
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  in the Fed and save state.
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  This then triggers gonna go chop and releasing hormone G in rh, which as
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  we've talked about time and time again on the show, then triggers lh, FSH,
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  estrogen, the whole hormonal cascade that leads to your period every month.
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  And without this happening, which starts with carbohydrates.
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  Your body is not going to allow you to ovulate, cycle, get, and stay pregnant
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  when you're afraid of carbohydrates.
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  Your body is living in a state of famine, and I hate to say this, but your body's
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  just not going to prioritize what it does not deem as essential to survival.
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  Your lungs breathing, heart beating, that kind of stuff is what your body's
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  gonna prioritize when it's living in survival mode, not making a baby.
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  Truly.
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  You have to think sometimes back to like caveman.
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  Era.
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  Like if your body thinks in a famine, it's not gonna say, Hey,
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  like let's cycle to make a baby.
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  'cause ultimately your cycle each month is your body preparing for pregnancy.
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  And if it doesn't happen, then we have a period, right?
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  So we have to almost think sometimes back to like the, evolution of our bodies
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  and what our bodies do when they're in a state of famine or survival mode.
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  You've been told you need to gain weight, stop exercising or do IVF
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  to get pregnant with no period.
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  What if I told you that's not actually true?
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  You're tracking your food, working out, trying everything to be healthy,
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  but your period is still missing and now pregnancy, it feels impossible.
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  I know exactly how that feels because I've helped hundreds of women get their
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  peered back and get pregnant naturally.
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  really causing your missing period.
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  that actually works even if you've tried.
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  It's time to restore your period, your fertility, and your hope.
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  Now let's get back to today's episode.
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  Okay, up next final sign, that these signs of your diet may
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  actually very well be the reason why you're struggling to get pregnant.
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  Sign number five is that you have strict rules that you never, ever deviate from.
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  Like you don't eat after 7:00 PM or you only eat bread once a day.
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  You allow dessert, but once a week max, these rules make you feel safe.
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  You get praised for your discipline, don't you?
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  You're the healthy one in your friend group or with your family, but deep
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  down, you know something's off.
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  You know that these strict rules are why you're so burnt out, why you're
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  cyclist missing, why you're never ovulating, why you're never getting
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  positive pregnancy tests, and that discipline that you are very well
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  getting praised and validated for.
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  It is the very reason that you're struggling to get pregnant right now.
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  Your body isn't craving more restriction, more rules like you can't eat after
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  7:00 PM even if you're hungry.
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  You could only eat bread once a day, or you can only allow
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  dessert on Friday nights.
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  Like, no, what your body actually needs to become fertile instead is
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  freedom, flexibility, and enoughness.
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  These five signs are more than just quirks or preferences.
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  There are red flags for hypothalamic amenorrhea.
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  Let's just review real quick, 'cause I think it's always helpful to understand
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  what's going on in your body when we lose our period to our eating and exercise
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  habits, also known as hypothalamic amenorrhea or ha, your brain's hormone
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  signaling system shuts down due to low energy availability and this happens, as
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  I was mentioning earlier in this episode, when the hypothalamus doesn't feel safe or
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  nourished and it stops sending out, gonna good trappin releasing hormone or GN Rh,
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  which means no FSH, no lh, no estrogen, no ovulation, no period, no pregnancy.
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  So if your cycle has been irregular, unpredictable, or
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  should have gone for years
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  and these five behaviors feel familiar.
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  There's a high possibility you're dealing with hypothermic amenorrhea,
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  and honestly, the solution is not to take more supplements or to think
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  that vacation can fix this or cutting just one workout a week and fix this,
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  or honestly, even that fertility.
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  Medication or fertility treatments like IUI or IVF can fix this.
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  They may be able to get you pregnant after multiple rounds, for example,
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  with IVF, but it will never fix the root cause of why your period
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  is missing in the first place.
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  Instead, what will is reversing the restriction, retraining your body so
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  that it knows and it can trust you, that it's safe enough to ovulate again
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  and challenging these five food rules.
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  That is exactly what.
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  That will do for you.
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  It will bring your period back.
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  It's what makes ovulation possible.
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  This is how you get pregnant naturally without invasive treatments.
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  Let me tell you about a client that I recently wrapped up with.
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  She's currently 12 weeks pregnant.
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  She came to us after years of missing periods.
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  She was a college athlete, disciplined to a fault, always the
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  healthy one, but her body was stuck.
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  She came off the pill years ago and did not have a period and just had
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  no idea how to move forward 'cause she was ready to get pregnant now.
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  And when Emma started working with us and realized that she had these, you
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  know, these five signs that this was her story, she decided to challenge
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  each of these five food rules.
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  She started eating breakfast.
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  She challenged dessert guilt, and really encouraged herself to
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  eat dessert every single night as part of her nighttime snack.
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  As part of her fertility plan, she reintroduced fats,
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  especially cooking with them.
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  She added carbs.
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  Back into her diet and let go of all those rules that were
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  secretly keeping her stuck.
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  And now Emma is about to enter into her second trimester after
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  getting her period back ovulating regularly and conceiving naturally.
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  And your story can look.
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  Just like this too.
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  Inside of Premier Period recovery for fertility, we help women just like you
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  uncover the real root cause of their period loss, understand exactly what to
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  shift in their food movement and mindset to get pregnant heal disorder habits in a
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  safe, supported way, and rebuild hormonal health so pregnancy becomes possible.
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  Again, please know at the end of this episode, you do not have to do this alone.
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  I encourage you to apply today and give.
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  Personalized support and strategic protocol.
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  Your body's been craving.
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  You were never too broken to get pregnant.
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  Your body just right now is too underfed over discipline and
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  missing the right kind of support.
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  So let's change that together.
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  I hope this episode resonated with you.
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  If you have a friend that you know who also has a lot of dieting
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  rules and kind of, you know, very strict, the healthy one.
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  'cause I feel like when we're that person, we often have friends like that too.
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  Share this, share this episode with them.
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  Who knows?
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  It might help them in their fertility journey too.
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  Thank you so much for listening to today's podcast episode.
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  As always, we'll be back for another episode next week.
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  Until then, know that I nourish.
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  Body is a powerful one.