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How to Eat on the Fertility Journey: Learning and Unlearning with Dr. Rebecca Berens
If you're like me, you have a complex relationship with food and body image. Back in the day, I even had a diagnosable eating disorder and received treatment for it. Thankfully, I've been in recovery for quite some time, but more stressful phases of life have challenged my ability to stay in recovery.
Let's consider the fertility journey. Most of us gain some weight while undergoing treatments, and as female physicians we are taught that the lower the BMI, the better (in most cases). This is confounded by the fact that most REI's use the BMI to determine who may and may not receive certain…
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